Les Miserables
Andrew Varela plays the role of Javert in Les Miserables at the Boston Opera house. A week before the interview, I had the pleasure of seeing the show. Even in the opening scene of of the show, standing silent amongst a crew of rowing prisoners, Varela’s presence is captivating. As an actor, he has some [...]
Rolie Polie Guacamole
Rolie Polie Guacamole just played a wonderful set in honor of Live Music Week on the Playground, promoting their new albums and showing their support for public radio. The New York group is celebrating their third Live Music Week at WERS, and is really enthusiastic about the station and unique kid’s programming like the Playground. [...]
Fermata Town
Today we had Boston a Cappella group Fermata Town come in and perform for us. Maria had the privilege of interviewing the energetic native Bostonians and talked to them about what it’s like being out of the college a cappella scene and performing in what they referred to as “the real world.” They discussed the [...]
The Kadima Band
This Live Music Week, Chagigah hosted the Kadima Band live in studio. The Kadima Band is a popular band in the Massachusetts area playing bar/bat mitvahs and community events all around. The band members include Lloyd Baron, Bradley Nelson and Jill Goldman. Bradley Nelson took over the band when his father passed away. His father [...]
The Other End of the Phone
Live Music Week has officially kicked off and donations are flying in from supportive and dedicated listeners like you. We love hearing your stories and taking requests, but often times listeners don’t get to hear about the people taking down your requests and donations. Emerson College has a large list of volunteers who help out [...]
Futurity
One would not expect that the Lisps were a group for an SRO pre record when they first walked in to the studio. Two of them yielding guitars, one a bass, one on drums, and a female co vocalist, with a tambourine thrown in. They are an experimental rock band first and foremost. When they [...]
Harvard Din and Tonics
For today’s in studio I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing The Harvard Din and Tonics, who are as classy in person as they are in vocal form. Sticking to traditional style a cappella, having them in the studio was a breath of fresh air. They were definitely the kind of classic gentlemen you don’t [...]
Inside Live Mix
Live Music Week is perhaps no more hectic than it is for Head Engineer Dave Labuguen and the Live Mix team. ”It’s hectic, bands in, bands out,” says Labuguen, or The Labuges as he is known around WERS, “You gotta make ‘em sound great within a short period of time, which is what we train for. [...]
Jake Sorgen
We kicked off this year’s Live Music Week with an acoustic, unplugged bang on The Coffee House this morning. Jake Sorgen, Cambridge-based singer-songwriter extraordinaire was ready to go bright and early for a live Coffee House Mini Concert. Jake has a new album coming out in early April called Sudden Myth, which he played three [...]
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Serenata de Amor Brings Cape Verde to Emerson
Serenata de Amor, a musical theater project spearheaded by visual media arts associate professor Claire Andrade-Watkins, was brought to Emerson this past year. The project is a tribute to the morna of Cape Verde and Brava set in the 1940s. Andrade-Watkins worked with a team of faculty and staff members from Emerson to bring Serenata [...]
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May 25
Boston Calling
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June 8
The XX / Grizzly Bear
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June 12
The Postal Service
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