May 15, 2026
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Life & Arts

Chris O’Dell on gender, drugs and rock ‘n roll

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Reading Time: 6 minutesEILEEN MOWREY Assistant Reverb Editor Last Tuesday, Chris O’Dell, author of “Miss O’Dell: My Hard Days and Long Nights with The Beatles, The Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and the Women They Loved,” shared with Fredonia students what it was like to work with some of the biggest rock and......
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Adjunct Spotlight: Musically and technically speaking, Yuen has it all

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Reading Time: 6 minutesCARL LAM Staff Writer Many who are not familiar with Mason Hall could attest that all that can be seen are doors. Gray doors, green doors, wooden doors — any type of door, really. And then there are the red doors, often filled with reminders, lesson schedules, concert information and......
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The Lone Bellow

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Reading Time: 2 minutesEILEEN MOWREY Assistant Reverb Editor One morning at Dizzy’s Diner in Park Slope, Brooklyn, three musicians, Zach Williams, Brian Elmquist and Kanene Pipkin, made music together for the first time. They were, respectively, a solo artist, a diner employee and a girl who had recently returned from Beijing. Today they......
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The best three music apps you (probably) don’t have

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Reading Time: 5 minutesPJ GERLACH Special to The Leader In the era of the Smartphone, music is the cornerstone. The stylish mini-computers we carry around with us everyday evolved out of a growing desire to always be plugged in to our music. It all started with the Sony Walkman, the first product (besides......
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The iPad ensemble; music reinvented

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Reading Time: 4 minutesEILEEN MOWREY Assistant Reverb Editor “As a researcher, you’re always saying, ‘I wonder what would happen if … ’” said Jill Reese, an assistant professor of music education and recent recipient of a two-semester grant for an “iPads for Music Making and Music Teaching” program. Reese, along with co-investigator Matthew......
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Safe Halloween: a positive tradition

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Reading Time: 2 minutesKORI BARKLEY Special to The Leader Halloween may be seen as one of the most fun and exciting holidays of the year, but, in Fredonia, it is highly regulated. Children of the area are only allowed to trick-or-treat for a couple of hours and — unfortunately, sometimes — not even......
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Students pull all-night Relay For Life

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Reading Time: 3 minutesMAGGIE GILROY Assistant Reverb Editor The Steele Hall Fieldhouse was filled with the spirit of celebration, remembrance, and the strength to fight back as Relay For Life kicked-off Saturday evening. Participants stayed up 12 hours straight in honor of those who have fought cancer as they raised money for a......
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How to make the most of your Student Services and Program Charge

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Reading Time: 2 minutesEvery student pays $696.50 per semester as part of the Student Services and Program Charge — equaling over $7 million for last year’s fall, spring and summer sessions. This weeks editorial talks about where exactly this money goes, as it’s broken down into categories on the Fredonia.edu website (Search: Student......
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