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Holiday Gospel Concert featuring Sylvia Fedrick cancelled due to weather

The Hoilday Gospel Concert featuring Sylvia Fedrick scheduled for Thursday, December 18th has been cancelled due to inclimate weather conditions. We will try to reschedule next month.

Phil Cohran classes at the Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies

This semester, Kelan Phil Cohran has been teaching classes at the Carruthers Center for Inner City studies. The classes began on October 14th and will continue through December 15th, and are held every Tuesday from 6:30-8:30 (pm) in room 211. The key areas are:

1. Cosmology in music
2. Fundamentals of written music
3. Music and the Body
4. Historical development of music

New Video Podcast: Elizabeth Norman Talks About Great Black Music

Elizabeth Norman has gained a reputation as an accomplished interpreter of contemporary composers. A winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Finals, The American Opera Society Competition and the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Award, she appears annually with the Grant Park Symphony in Chicago, as well as with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

A Critical Analysis of Hip Hop Culture, Spring 2009

Course Reference Number 21801
Fridays 6pm to 8:40pm, Auditorium
Jacob Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies
Instructor: Lance Williams

Featuring special performances and guest lectures
by Hip Hop’s hottest MCs, DJs, Graffiti Artists, Break Dancers,
Activists and Scholars. Surprise lecture by one o Chicago’s award winning MCs.

City Of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs - Music Forums

Musicians at Work Forums are sponsored by:
Columbia College Chicago
Chicago Federation of Musicians
Harold Washington College

Media Sponsor: Center Stage Chicago

Chicago Artists Resource -- Now for Music!
www.chicagoartistsresource.org/music

Video Podcast: Parts 1 to 3 - Kelan Phil Cohran talks about Sun Ra Now Online

A Video and Audio Podcast interview with Kelan Phil Cohran is now available on the Great Black Music Project website. Go to the Podcast section of the website.

Kelan Phil Cohran Ensemble Tribute to Sun Ra

Phil Cohran
Kelan Ensemble Tribute to Sun Ra
Thursday, August 14, 2008, 7pm
Jay Pritzker stage in Millennium Park

Edwin Daugherty at the Velvet Lounge every Wednesday in June

THE VELVET LOUNGE
67 E CERMAK
Chicago, IL
8:00pm

AACM Experimental Band at the Velvet Lounge

PLEASE JOIN THE AACM EXPERIMENTAL BAND THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY - JUNE 13 AND 14 at

THE VELVET LOUNGE
63 E. CERMAK RD
CHICAGO, IL.
9PM

www.aacmchicago.org

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