Notice from the Kennedy Center

Jazz Fest at the General Stanton Inn, August 9

Public is invited to Narragansett tribe's powwow, August 9-10

Day Two

July 12: Bluegrass at the General Stanton

July 11: Summer Music Series at the Wilcox Tavern

Women Folk summer music series continues with Maddie Cardoza, Mary Pierce and Margi Gianquinto

By Women Folk

Friday, July 11 · 7 - 8:30pm EDT. Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes

Women Folk Events began a few months ago at The Bend/Wilcox Tavern the 2nd FRIDAY of every month featuring fantastic songwriters from RI, CT and MA.

Get tickets HERE.

June 21: SummerFest kick-off at the General Stanton

Jine 14: South County Pride Festival in Wakefield

Summer music schedule at the General Stanton Inn

Bronzer Boss

At Ninigret, May 30-June 1, Atlantis Rising

 

May 30 - June 1    Ninigret Park, Charlestown, RI

RAIN OR SHINE - NO DOGS ALLOWED

 

Tickets at the door.

$15 for adults and children over 10.

$7 for children 10 - 6.

Children 5 and under FREE!

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

 

King Donald want celebs who don't like him to be subject to criminal investigation

Trump doesn't like the Boss

Looking at the last line, Bruce might not be allowed back in

 This is what triggered Trump:

Trump is also trying to pick another fight with Taylor Swift. Good luck with that.

And after the rally...

First concert: symphonic version of YMCA

 

Series of great concerts coming this fall at URI

Musical lineup includes jazz from 1924, music that addresses natural disasters, and a marching band presentation

By Ethan Weiner

The Department of Music at the University of Rhode Island has scheduled a variety of exciting concerts this fall starting Saturday, Oct. 26, with the Jazz Big Band featuring special guest trombonist Joseph Jefferson.

Tickets for each concert can be purchased through Eventbrite or at the box office one hour prior to the performance. General admission tickets are $15, $10 for students and seniors 60 and older. Children 12 and under get in free. All events will be held at the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall, 105 Upper College Road, Kingston. To see a full schedule of performances for the semester, check out music events.

The Jazz Big Band, directed and taught by Emmett Goods, is a 15-piece ensemble showcasing the world of jazz and what it has to offer. The concert, entitled “It Was a Very Good Year,” will feature music associated with jazz artists born in 1924 and will include a pre-concert talk by Goods. The concert starts at 3 p.m. 

The main reason for performing music from 1924, Goods said, is the abundance of significant jazz musicians, ranging from pianist and composer Bud Powell and trombonist J.J. Johnson to vocalists Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington. 

There will be a variety of solos taking place throughout the concert but “keep an eye out for freshman Sebastian Rosa performing a solo on the trumpet,” Goods said. 

On Sunday, Oct. 27, The American Band concert was developed around a three-movement work by Julie Giroux called Culloden, which honors the music of the Scottish Highlands in the mid-18th century, said Brian Cardany, director of the band. The American Band is one of the earliest established community bands in the country. The concert starts at 3 p.m.

Brown modern culture and media scholar Tony Cokes wins prestigious MacArthur ‘genius grant’

Tony Cook wins genius grant

Brown University — 

Tony Cokes, a professor of modern culture and media at Brown,
 has been named a 2024 MacArthur Fellow. Photo provided by
 the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

The MacArthur Foundation has named Tony Cokes, a professor of modern culture and media at Brown University, one of 22 MacArthur Fellows from across the U.S. for 2024.

The honor is accompanied by an $800,000 stipend, awarded over five years with no conditions, to enable Cokes to advance his artistic practice. Cokes’ video works and installations examine historical and cultural moments through a signature style that places frames of appropriated text against backgrounds of solid colors or images, paired with musical soundtracks.

He said he was surprised to receive the award, often dubbed the “genius grant,” for which recipients are nominated anonymously by leaders in their respective fields and considered by an anonymous selection committee.

URI Guitar and Mandolin Festival opens six days of concerts with full-day festival on Oct. 13

Purple Haze? Probably not.

Tony LaRoche 

Adam Levin, founder and artistic director of the URI Guitar and Mandolin Festival.

A name change would seem to herald a major career shift. But as it prepares to open its ninth year on Sunday, Oct. 13, the newly rebranded University of Rhode Island Guitar and Mandolin Festival is actually staying the course that has made it one of the largest classical guitar festivals in the U.S.

It's coming!

Narragansett Powwow, August 11

Music’s Global Language of Emotion

Feeling the Beat

By UNIVERSITY OF TURKU 

New research shows that music evokes similar emotions and bodily sensations around the world. The study, by the Turku PET Centre in Finland, was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Music can be felt directly in the body. When we hear our favorite catchy song, we are overcome with the urge to move to the music. Music can activate our autonomic nervous system and even cause shivers down the spine. A new study shows how emotional music evokes similar bodily sensations across cultures.

Cross-Cultural Emotional Responses to Music

“Music that evoked different emotions, such as happiness, sadness or fear, caused different bodily sensations in our study. For example, happy and danceable music was felt in the arms and legs, while tender and sad music was felt in the chest area,” explains Academy Research Fellow Vesa Putkinen.

The emotions and bodily sensations evoked by music were similar across Western and Asian listeners. The bodily sensations were also linked with the music-induced emotions.