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Fredonia Radio Systems rocks the Steele Hall ice rink

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Reading Time: 2 minutesSTEPHEN SACCO Special to The Leader   Last Friday night, Feb. 10, those in Steele Hall ice rink were slipping, sliding and skating. Skaters varied from all levels of experience, but it didn’t matter if you weren’t an olympic skater or the next Wayne Gretzky — everyone came to rock.......
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Ethos NewSounds coordinates festival with Latitude 49

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Reading Time: 3 minutes[metaslider id=10776] STEPHEN SACCO Special to The Leader   Latitude 49, a six-person band originating from the University of Michigan, payed Fredonia a sonic visit. On Wednesday, Jan. 31, the band arrived at Mason Hall offering students a master class focusing on music composition. The next night, Latitude 49 performed......
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Percussion Guild brings Ghana to Fredonia

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Reading Time: 3 minutes[metaslider id=10659] MELISSA FUCHS Special to The Leader   Wednesday night brought a taste of Ghana to Rosch Recital Hall on the Fredonia campus as students, community members and faculty were treated to the sights and sounds of the Saakumu Dance Troupe. While Saakumu is Ghanaian for tradition, the performance......
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HAIL! Fredonia Records gives hope for the holidays

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteELYSE GRIECO Assistant Life & Arts Editor   This past September, Puerto Rico suffered from Hurricane Maria, the tenth-most intense Atlantic hurricane currently on record. Many people are still affected by this tragedy every day. With the holidays approaching, the Fredonia community came together over the weekend to do their......
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Taylor Swift breaks Pitchfork scale with cripplingly bad album

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Reading Time: 2 minutesAMBER MATTICE Managing Editor   Taylor Swift is out to change her reputation through her new album, “Reputation,” which was released on Nov. 10. Through a different, way-worse sound and standardly whiny lyrics, she has given herself a new image, but not exactly in the way that she had planned.......
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Sam Smith thrills us all once again: Smith’s second album tops the charts

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Reading Time: 3 minutesTEISHA MCELFRESH Special to the Leader   Sam Smith is possibly one of the youngest old souls that we have in pop music today. According to Biography.com, he is a four-time Grammy winner and has also won an Academy Award. Between his romantically desperate crooning ballads and his impossibly high......
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Dynamic Intonation set to perform Fall show

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Reading Time: 2 minutesBETHANY CLANCY Staff Writer   On Nov. 15, Fredonia’s newest and only jazz a capella group, Dynamic Intonation, will be having their Fall show in Mason Hall. The group is accepting of all genders and was started in 2012. According to Nicole Moy, a senior applied music major with a......

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