Faculty Collaborators Featured on IndieFeed

Skip the open mics. Listen to poetry online! IndieFeed now has a performance poetry channel for internet broadcasts, and look who is featured: two magnificently talented Salem State professors: JD Scrimgeour, Creative Writing, and Phil Swanson, music. The two combined their talents and formed a group called Confluence, blending poetry and music in a collaboration far beyond lyrics. This is poetry and music, responding to each other for an enhanced reading of Scrimgeour's long-form poem, Ogunquit. http://www.indiefeedpp.libsyn.com/

Learn more about these gifted faculty members and their collaborative work:

http://confluence-poetryandmusic.com/

Salem State A Cappella in training

In May, the Center for Creative and Performing Arts held auditions and found 13 dynamite student voices to become members of Salem State's first official a cappella group. Next year, you'll be able to find them at alumni events, sporting events, out and around campus, and at competitions and festivals. Two of these students head to Berklee today for an intensive multi-day training in all things a cappella: blending, vocal percussion, improv, harmony, and pitch slapping. (What IS pitch slapping ,anyways?) Robert LoBrutto and Andrea Neuenfeldt will come back to tell us! And thanks to our donors to the Center for the Arts for making this whole project possible.

Meanwhile, we still need a name... so help us out with suggestions! Right now, our lead choices are Salem State Soundbites, and the Screaming Vikings!

Insider Theatre Tips!

Here's what some of our regular patrons know that might make your next trip to a performance at Salem State and even better one.

PARKING: If you don't get lucky with a spot on Lafayette Street, you can park in LOT A just off of College Drive, the drive located two buildings past Mainstage Theatre headed East. If the gate is up, you can park legally. Even better: turn right into the driveway directly next to the Mainstage, and try one of the reserved spots for administration. These spots are free and open in the evenings and Sundays, and the campus police will not ticket you. Third: On Loring Avenue, turn into the parking lot next to Horace Mann Elementary School, and find reserved and metered parking which is also free on the weekend. You will be just a short walk behind the Mainstage from this spot, or have easy access to the elevator to the Callan if you're headed to a black box theatre performance.

AIR CONDITIONED: Bring a sweater. It gets cool in the Mainstage!

LINES And... there's usually a line for tickets so buy in advance to avoid it! Online at http://www.salemstatetickets.com or call M-F, 10 am - 4 pm: 978-542-7555.

DISCOUNTS There's still time this week to get a subscription discount, if you purchase tickets to Lend Me a Tenor and Into the Woods as a package. By phone only.

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