The Fine Arts Center at the University of Rhode Island presented the Víquez/Wadley Trio on Thursday, March 28, which performed a number of musical pieces designed for clarinet, bass clarinet, tuba and percussion. The 89th event of the 2023/2024 URI Music Department season, which had free admission, was a faculty recital. The trio was composed…
South African artist Tyla released her self-titled debut album, “TYLA,” on March 26 and has grown in popularity after receiving a Grammy for best African music performance for her smash single, “Water.” At the age of 22, Tyla is now the youngest African musician to get a Grammy Award. Tyla has drawn attention from people…
This past Saturday, the College of Arts and Sciences hosted a ukulele jam at the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall, where students and faculty members of the University of Rhode Island along with members of the greater Kingston community joined together to create music. The event was organized by Audrey Cardany, an associate professor of…
University of Rhode Island band Marble House took home first place in the URI Musician’s Guild Big Nice Battle of the Bands on Saturday night in the Memorial Union’s Rainville Ballroom. The free show featured performances from eight URI bands: Cough Drop, Fermat, Marble House, Morning Shower, Moss Boy and the Critters, Orphans on Fire,…
Spring is upon us. Despite Mother Nature only giving New England a taste of warm weather over spring break, the spring season means we will soon get that subtle transition from in-car heating to rolling the windows down. In preparation for that, I have taken it upon myself to provide the University of Rhode Island…
Taylor Swift came out with her own version of the “Eras Tour” movie which featured “cardigan” and four additional songs from the acoustic set on Thursday, March 14, on Disney Plus. The movie is titled “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version)” and shows a mix of all three of her performances at Sofi…
After a rendition of “Water Spirits Redux” by Nathan Daughtrey, North Smithfield High School’s percussion ensemble, under the direction of Kevin Plouffe, was announced the winner of this year’s Percussion Ensemble Festival, an event that has been bringing together local musicians for over 20 years. Percussionists of all ages gathered together on Saturday for the…
Marble House may have come together by chance, but the eclectic group stayed together after winning the Musician’s Guild annual Rock n’ Swap competition in November 2023. In the Rock n’ Swap competition, musicians are randomly grouped into bands. Competing under the name Wicked Pizzahs (with the original five members), the group took home the…
MGMT released their fifth studio album, “Loss of Life,” in late February, taking their sound in a few distinct, new directions. A Middledown, Connecticut based indie duo, MGMT has been making indie and psychedelic rock with electronic elements since the early 2000s. They earned radio airplay almost immediately from their first singles, “Time to Pretend,”…
Marley Fitzpatrick, under the artist name of fitzy, is a singer songwriter from Massachusetts whose journey with music has been evolving with him throughout his life. Fitzpatrick’s music is heavily influenced by 90s alternative rock, such as the band Radiohead. When fitzy was 11-years-old, he saw Twenty One Pilots live. He found himself intrigued by…