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A friend, a colleague, and an artist

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 6, 2013August 31, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderNovember 6, 2013August 31, 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutesDan Hahn, for Thom Dean I don’t claim to know Thom best, I know a few folks who deserve that space and this is as much for them as it is for Thom. We were friends, we put our hearts and time towards some of the same goals and yeah...

Townhouses: off campus lifestyle while on campus

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 6, 2013September 1, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderNovember 6, 2013September 1, 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutesJESSICA COLON Special To The Leader Burgio & Campofelice Inc. is currently undergoing the task of constructing new university village townhouses located on campus. Housing in “Townhouse Village” will be offered in the Fall of 2014 to provide students with an off campus lifestyle while still living on campus. Located...

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

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 6, 2013September 1, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderNovember 6, 2013September 1, 2019

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...

Adjunct Spotlight: Musically and technically speaking, Yuen has it all

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 29, 2013September 1, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderOctober 29, 2013September 1, 2019

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...

The Lone Bellow

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 29, 2013August 31, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderOctober 29, 2013August 31, 2019

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...

ARIA: Another year, a new album

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 29, 2013August 31, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderOctober 29, 2013August 31, 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutesEILEEN MOWREY Assistant Reverb Editor Last October, The A-Tracks featured a story on ARIA, a female-fronted rock/alternative band from Buffalo, NY. Since then the band has been busy, and now they have new stories to tell. When we last talked to ARIA, they were preparing to take on the country....

The best three music apps you (probably) don’t have

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 29, 2013September 1, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderOctober 29, 2013September 1, 2019

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...

The iPad ensemble; music reinvented

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 29, 2013August 31, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderOctober 29, 2013August 31, 2019

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...

From the Desk of…

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 29, 2013August 16, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderOctober 29, 2013August 16, 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutesRILEY STRAW Copy Editor If one were to, say, go to New Orleans for a journalism convention with the world-renowned Copy Editor of The Leader, Riley Straw, here are a couple of tips so one doesn’t, say, absolutely lose their mind. As many of you know, Managing Editor Courtney Gfroerer,...

Blue Devils drop to 4-10-1 with two road losses

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 23, 2013

by Contributor to The LeaderOctober 23, 2013

Reading Time: 2 minutesZACHARY PINTI Special to The Leader The Fredonia Blue Devils came into this past weekend with a 1-6-1 record in their last eight games (4-8-1 overall). With two highly competitive matchups against Potsdam on Friday and Plattsburgh on Saturday, it proved to be an uphill battle to turn their season...

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A friend, a colleague, and an artist

Townhouses: off campus lifestyle while on campus

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

Adjunct Spotlight: Musically and technically speaking, Yuen has it all

The Lone Bellow

ARIA: Another year, a new album

The best three music apps you (probably) don’t have

The iPad ensemble; music reinvented

From the Desk of…

Blue Devils drop to 4-10-1 with two road losses