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Local Lo-Down radio show: Getting behind the scenes of Fredonia’s music scene

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Reading Time: 2 minutesCHLOE KOWALYK News Editor This year marks 10 years since The Local Lo-Down took to the FM waves at Fredonia Radio Systems (FRS).  However, after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down several clubs and activities for about two years, The Local Lo-Down was put on pause.  The Local Lo-Down is a......
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Nomads: Freshly-formed SUNY Fredonia faculty band

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Reading Time: 3 minutesQUINN SPOOK Special to The Leader In Mason Hall as the week is coming to a close, a cover of Jimmy Eat World’s “It Just Takes Some Time” fills the empty corridors. The familiar tune as well as laughter spills out of room 2018. The overhead lights are replaced with......
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“The Hunchback of Notre Dame” local performance review

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Reading Time: 4 minutesNIKKI INDELICATO Life & Arts Editor “What makes a monster and what makes a man?” One of the most notable lyrics that gets answered over the course of two and half hours can be found within the musical written by Peter Parnell with music and lyrics by Alan Menken and......
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Rocks holding history’s haunting weight displayed as part of English Senior Seminar project

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Reading Time: 3 minutesLYDIA TURCIOS Art Director haunt·ing /ˈhôn(t)iNG/ adjective poignant and evocative; difficult to ignore or forget. The English Department’s Senior Seminar class will be presenting, under the guidance of their Professor Dr. Jeanette Mcvicker, an exhibition of academic research based on hauntology in literature titled “The Weight of History: How we......
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Earth Day events hosted by Greystone Nature Preserve, FRED Grows and Enactus + photo gallery

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Reading Time: 2 minutesTANNER CLARK Special to The Leader Earth Day, which annually takes place on April 22, bloomed into an array of events offered in Fredonia on a beautiful Friday afternoon.  Greystone Nature Preserve hosted this event with two campus clubs: FRED Grows and the Planet Division of Enactus to celebrate the......
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The winds are back: Importance of live ensemble performances

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Reading Time: 2 minutesAUSTIN YOUNGS Special to The Leader As a musician who has been playing the bassoon for nine years, I’ve seen the importance of the wind band in American music education.  That importance remains the same here at the Fredonia School of Music. At Fredonia, there are several large wind band......
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11 SUNY Fredonia B.A. theatre art senior capstones to showcase in “Envision” this weekend

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Reading Time: 2 minutesTORI TRUMBULL Special to The Leader At the height of a busy weekend for the department of theatre and dance with “Ghost Quartet,” produced by Jay Byron, Niklas Dahlen and Skylar Ginsberg, “Not for Discipline” presented by the Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) dance senior class and “This Random World”......
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“Super” alums to return to campus this week for Writers@Work event

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCHLOE KOWALYK News Editor NIKKI INDELICATO Life & Arts Editor A storyboard revisionist at Marvel Studios and an award-winning founder of her own company will be returning to campus this week to connect with SUNY Fredonia students.  Jordan and Jakera Willis will be the speakers of the Writers@Work event “From......
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Meet Yuwan Viros: Fashion trendsetter by day, iconic drag queen by night

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Reading Time: 5 minutesALYSSA BUMP Editor in Chief  SUNY Fredonia is quite a small campus. With only 3,000 or so students on campus, some are destined to stand out among the rest. One of those students is Yuwan Viros, a senior public relations and theatre arts major, with a concentration in costume design.......
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Photo gallery: Devine Sound’s annual spring concert “The Revival”

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Reading Time: 2 minutesPhotographs by Derek Raymond, Photo Editor. Divine Sound, a Fredonia gospel choir, held its annual spring concert on April 9. The name of the show, “The Revival,” was chosen based on the songs the group decided to perform: all of the songs told a story when put together. At this......

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