Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock honors singer
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- Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock honors singer
- After-school music program hopes to keep kids in tune
- Spectrum 2 Concert is Jan. 31 at Coastal Carolina University
Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock honors singer
Dallas Morning News TX
3 1959 may be the day the music died but a half-century later a music legend’s memory is alive and rockin’ at Lubbock’s Buddy Holly Center. Dedicated to the city’s famous son the intimate museum tells Holly’s story from his early days learning to pick guitar on the dusty plains of West Texas to his tragic death 50 years ago in a cold Iowa field. Charles Hardin Holley known by his nickname Buddy was born Sept. The rock star we know as Buddy Holly was born years later when his last name according to documents at the center was misspelled on his first recording contract. In a room shaped like his Fender Stratocaster visitors to the Buddy Holly Center can view an extensive memorabilia collection including that celebrated guitar.
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After-school music program hopes to keep kids in tune
Arizona Republic AZ
24 2009 12:00 AM The Arizona Republic At the beginning of the school year 7-year-old Conrad Varela was happy just to know how to strum a few chords on his father’s old guitar. But by December the student at Shaw Elementary School near downtown Phoenix had his own instrument and was playing songs. “I like rock and roll you know the hard stuff” the second-grader said. “My parents are really surprised I am learning so fast.
Spectrum 2 Concert is Jan. 31 at Coastal Carolina University
South Carolina Now South Carolina
The concert will include performances from the University’s World Percussion Ensemble Guitar Ensemble Flute Choir Jazz After Hours Big Band Bass Ensemble and Symphonic Band. Each band and ensemble will perform music of different styles genres and backgrounds with no breaks or pauses between sections and groups. The Guitar Ensemble directed by Daniel Hull a teaching associate in the University’s Department of Music specializes in classical guitar music. The flute choir is directed by Amy Tully assistant professor of music. The Jazz After Hours band directed by Dan ’Reilly instructor of music specializes in American forms of music. The 65-member symphonic band is directed by Jim Tully assistant professor and director of bands at Coastal Carolina University. The Percussion Ensemble is under the direction of Kurry Seymour director of percussion studies and the University’s assistant band director.
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