If you’re in the market for some live hip-hop tonight, several local and regional favorites will be taking the stage at Bar None for the “Welcome To My City Tour,” part of the ongoing Torch Tuesday Concert Series Headlining the show will be the very popular Pytch Wyte, winner of both Artist of the Year and […]
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Video preview of tonight’s ISO concert
Tonight the Illinois Symphony Orchestra closes out its season with “Lincoln’s Legacy” a truly dynamic program featuring a photo montage of historical images choreographed by James Westwater to Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait.” Below, watch our exclusive video of this week’s rehearsal, with comments from ISO musical director Alastair Willis and executive director Trevor Orthmann. (Video […]
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Fixing school funding
Senate Bill 16 sponsor Sen. Andy Manar, D-Bunker Hill, stands with some of the bill’s cosponsors and a copy of the 419-page bill. PHOTO BY LAUREN P. DUNCAN Illinois has seen the price of food, gasoline, shelter and most basic necessities increase. Yet for four years the state hasn’t increased the amount it pays per […]
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Telling their stories
Springfield photographer Adam Smith, left, is producing a documentary film about the homeless people with whom he spent the past three months. Bill Guyer, right, is one of Smith’s subjects in the film. PHOTO BY PATRICK YEAGLE In the middle of the gazebo at Washington Park in Springfield sits a homeless man named Bill Guyer. […]
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Chamber Orchestra welcomes pipa virtuoso Wu Mon
Tomorrow night, the Illinois Chamber Orchestra will conclude its season with “Incredible Illusions” a program featuring Silk Road Ensemble member and world-renowned pipa player Wu Mon. The soloist was honored in 2013 by Musical America magazine, which named her Instrumentalist of the Year, reportedly the first time the award was bestowed on a player of […]
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Video: The Pharmacy presents Epsom and Estuary Tomorrow
This Friday night, April 11 at 9 p.m., Springfield’s most sarcastic aging post-punk iconoclasts, Epsom (featuring this blog’s titular scribe on vocals/lyrics, so yeah, full disclosure, whatevs) will perform along with rarely seen NYC-Chicago band (with heavy Springfield roots) Estuary for an all-ages concert at The Pharmacy. Check out Pat Yeagle’s video of Epsom practicing […]
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Free-speech icon to speak at UIS
John and Mary Beth Tinker at the time of their 1965 protests. Nearly 50 years ago, when Des Moines, Iowa, teenager John Tinker and his sister, Mary Beth, took a stand against the Vietnam War, they had no idea they were helping to create a legal precedent that would echo through free speech jurisprudence for […]
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A.D. Carson rides again
Last summer, teacher, poet and recording artist A.D. Carson left Springfield to pursue his Ph.D. at South Carolina’s Clemson University, leaving a notable gap in local culture (the fact that he was awarded his second Torch Tuesday “Lyricist of the Year” Award in absentia speaks volumes to his status in the hip-hop community). Carson is […]
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Tonight and tomorrow: Art openings at SAA and The Pharmacy
This Friday and Saturday will provide Springfield art appreciators multiple opportunities to do just that at three separate receptions of exciting contemporary art . Tonight, the Springfield Art Association will be presenting Trigger: New Work by UIS Art Faculty in the new M.G. Nelson Family Gallery from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The show will […]
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Torch Tuesday Tonight: Femcee Classic with Def Jam artist K’La
Torch Tuesday at Bar None (in association with Wize Guys Productions) continues to prove its mettle as the preeminent regional showcase for hip-hop with Femcee Classic – a program of female artists, including Keyshia B, T- Roni, Lady T, KF along with up-and-coming Def Jam recording artist K’La, whose most recent single is a collaboration […]
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IT exclusive video preview! Musical event at The Pharmacy this weekend
Sound artist Ben S. Jacob of local arts collective The Pharmacy will be presenting his primal, highly percussive sonic vision this Saturday and Sunday evening Check out the video below for rehearsal footage and to hear Mr. Jacob expound on his musical ideas. The event will take place at 401 South Grand Avenue West March […]
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Exclusive video: Behind the scenes at tonight’s art openings at SAA and DEMO Project
A bunny presides over “Nocturnes” This evening two very different but equally dreamlike events are happening simultaneously at the Springfield Art Association. In the spacious, newly remodeled main gallery Kathleen Scott of Brooklyn, NY, will be presenting “Nocturne” from 5:30 until 7:30 p.m. Across the yard at DEMO Project, Salt Lake City artist Brian Charles Patterson will screen […]
