Joan Baez played “We Shall Overcome” as an encore to end the first day of Woodstock in August 1969. On Saturday, Catherine Coffey ’16 gave the song its Hillsdale debut, opening for an event with a similar name but its own distinctive vibe: Wombstock. “Hey, Wombstock, we’re not doing nearly enough drugs for verisimilitude here,”...
With 40 students now participating in its jazz program, the music department hired a new trombone professor and vocal instructor this semester. “The program continues to grow and get better,” Director of Jazz Ensembles Chris McCourry said. The music department is allocating more time and resources to the jazz program. McCourry said he is confident...
While splitting her summer break between three corners of the world, senior Emily Barnum experienced new ways of life in Dallas, TX, Southeast Asia, and Greece. The language barrier in Southeast Asia was one of the biggest culture shocks she experienced. “People would yell, ‘Hello Mister, Hello!’ whenever they would see me because they know...
The first annual Wombstock music festival will kick off Saturday. Located on the lawn of a local off-campus house named the Womb, at 36 E Fayette St., the festival plays off the legendary music festival Woodstock, and will feature music from local bands and musicians and those who hail from as far away as Chicago...
This past Fourth of July, I was driving with my brother through Oxon Hill in Prince George’s County, one of the last vestiges of Washington, D.C.’s old go-go culture, now dislocated by gentrification to southern Maryland. My brother kept commenting on the dinkiness of it all: the carryout soul-food restaurants, the clothes lines outside the...