The Mackerel Wrapper

A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

COMM 209 - coverage assignment, Monday, Feb. 8

Your assignment: Cover this on-campus event. Write a 500-word newspaper-style story due Wednesday, Feb. 10. Here's the message as I received it.

Tunes at Noon - February 8th in the Student Lounge

"BEN-Springfield"
To: <students@sci.edu>, <staff@sci.edu>, <faculty@sci.edu>


Check out this artist before he breaks into big-time!


Monday, February 8 th from 11:30 – 1:00 in the student lounge!








Andrew Belle

“Andrew released his debut EP All Those Pretty Lights in 2008, containing songs featured in hit TV shows including “90210” and “The Real World.” His song “I’ll Be Your Breeze” garnered nationwide airplay including Los Angeles tastemaker station KCRW. His music and vocal styling draw comparisons to Coldplay, The Fray, and John Mayer. Fans and critics often re0fer to his songs as “smart pop”—nuanced melodies and contemplative lyrics coupled with bold, infectious hooks.”

Now you know as much as I know. How can you find out more before his concert? (Hint: We have computers in our classroom that can access the most powerful research tool known to humankind.)
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Springfield (Ill.), United States
I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.