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Archive for September, 2020

Friday, September 25th, 2020

Weis Center Sessions #16: Ben Feuerstein (Guitar)

Welcome to our 16th installment of Weis Center Sessions! Each Friday, we release a video that features a member of the Bucknell University community. Today we feature guitarist Ben Feuerstein performing a John Mayer cover “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room.” Ben is a 10th grader at Lewisburg Area High School. He is a student at the Uptown Music Collective where he has studied for the past year and a half. His current musical interests range from Yngwie Malmsteen to John Mayer. He says, “I’m trying to soak in as much guitar playing knowledge as possible. When I’m not playing the guitar […]

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Posted by on September 25, 2020

Friday, September 18th, 2020

Weis Center Sessions #15: Jim Van Fleet (Uilleann Pipes)

Welcome to our 15th installment of Weis Center Sessions! Each Friday, we release a video that features a member of the Bucknell University community. Today we feature Jim Van Fleet performing “Mo Ghile Mear” or “My Gallant Hero” on the uilleann pipes. Jim Van Fleet has been the librarian for science and engineering resources, in the Bertrand Library at Bucknell University, for thirty years. His interest in Irish traditional music pre-dates his library career. The uilleann pipes are a bagpipe design unique to lreland; a bellows provides air to the seven different cane reeds of the chanter, drones, and keyed […]

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Posted by on September 18, 2020

Friday, September 11th, 2020

Weis Center Sessions #14: Quentin Andrews ’24 (Spoken Word)

Welcome to our 14th installment of Weis Center Sessions! Each Friday, we release a video that features a member of the Bucknell University community. Today we feature Bucknell student Quentin Andrews ’24 as he recites an original work. Quentin is a first year Bucknell student (Class of 2024) from Washington, DC. He is a POSSE scholar currently pursuing a double major in economics and statistics. He enjoys writing poetry and has performed multiple times with one appearance at the Kennedy Center. He is a member of the T.E.A.M. program and enjoys bike riding and playing basketball on campus. Recorded at […]

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Posted by on September 11, 2020

Friday, September 4th, 2020

Weis Center Sessions #13: Joe Scapellato (Reading) and Dustyn Martincich (Dance)

Welcome to our 13th installment of Weis Center Sessions! Each Friday, we release a video that features a member of the Bucknell University community. Today, we feature Joe Scapellato and Dustyn Martincich. Joseph Scapellato is the author of the novel, THE MADE-UP MAN, and the story collection, BIG LONESOME. He earned his MFA in Fiction at New Mexico State University and teaches at Bucknell as an assistant professor in the English Department. Dustyn Martincich is interested in investigating narrative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary possibilities in theatre and dance performance. She has movement directed, choreographed, and performed for concert dance and theatrical […]

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Posted by on September 4, 2020

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