by Erika Thornsberry | Sep 7, 2013 | News Slider
Dr. Alan Bradshaw has been a professor at Lipscomb for 15 years and is used to having eyes on him. Whether he is in his classroom teaching or playing a gig with his band, he has the audience’s attention. Chances are if you have a schedule with Dr. Bradshaw’s name on it, you are heading to McFarland to attend a physics class. Students will find that his classroom is a pretty different setting than most teachers would use. Constant experiments and entertainment happen in an everyday class period. Just like the entertainment in his classroom, Dr. Bradshaw won’t just have a piece of chalk in his hand- it could be a guitar. “Foxfire Newgrass is the name of the band I’m in,” Bradshaw shared. “A friend at church heard me play the guitar and asked if I had interest in being in a band.” The versatile professor has been in the band now for nine years. Bradshaw says he might have learned a few things from his Physics class that he uses when he plays his music. According to Bradshaw, in Physics, equations are something you learn to use; his style of music is something similar as he is usually plugging one type of music into a different equation. “Our music is new grass style, but it’s set to bluegrass. We could take a normal Beatles song and set it to the bluegrass style,” Bradshaw said. Just being a student in a physics class can be stressful; however, Bradshaw says there is a whole different kind of stress being the professor. Dr. Bradshaw says, “Being in the band is...
by Brynn Watkins | Oct 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
If you were to glance at Kevin Mac Erwin while passing him on the way to class, you would probably assume he was an art student. With his unique sense of style, gauged earrings and fancy Ray Bans, it is easy to peg him as a simple student artist. However, Kevin is not only a full time art student at Lipscomb but also an internationally known musician. Kevin Mac Erwin is the man behind the electronic music sensation Lunova Labs. Kevin’s music career all started with a piano and an unquenchable desire for something new. Kevin is an entirely self-taught pianist. He picked up piano one day, and from then on, he was hooked on the instrument. Before Lunova Labs, Kevin performed in a couple of experimental hard-core bands in his teenage years which helped shape him as a musician. Kevin’s fascination with the music of Aphex Twin and Brian Eno gave him the incentive to begin producing electronic music at an early age. He would make up songs in his head and translate them into a beat. The beats then turned into full-length projects, and from this cycle, Lunova Labs was born. Many of the ideas behind Lunova Labs’ vibrant and catchy beats came from the diverse area he grew up in. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Kevin’s style of music was influenced heavily by the city’s aesthetic. City culture and diversity were a clear cornerstone of the Lunova Labs unique sound. Kevin says he is always taking in inspiration with every aspect of life. Soon after Kevin’s teenage years, he decided he wanted a change of scenery...
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by Whitney Jarreld | Jun 17, 2012 | News Slider
Cowboy hats, cutoff blue jeans, cowboy boots, country music stars, street performers, locals and people from out of state and out of the country. Each summer country music fans flock to Nashville for the CMA Fest. With a record of 71,000 daily patrons, this year’s CMA Fest attendance jumped over nine percent from last year. Here are some photos from the Riverfront and Broadway festivities. ...
by Sarah McGee | Jun 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
This time last week, I was sitting in the sweltering heat of Bonnaroo. At first, I wasn’t too sure how the whole weekend was going to go. I’m a little bit of a diva, so the idea of roughing it was not too appealing to me. I am incredibly glad to say that it ended up being one of the coolest weekends of my life! The music was spectacular. My favorite bands that played were definitely a tie between Young The Giant and Red Hot Chili Peppers. They put on such great shows. Along with the music though, there were definitely some fashion stand-outs the whole time I was there. Some outfits were very cute. I loved all of the cute dresses that I saw people wearing! I also really liked how there were so many accessories that were used to glam up an outfit. For example, in one of the pictures above, the heart sunglasses are nice. I thought that bandanas were a really fun touch too, and many people added them to their outfits. Boots were another thing that I frequently saw people wearing throughout the Centeroo. Bonnaroo is a great example of how you can look stylish without needing to create an elaborate outfit. In addition to the cute outfits, there were some absolutely outrageous ones! I also tried to look nice every day that I was there, but under the circumstances of having limited showers and being...
by Emily Snell | Jun 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
Back when he was in fifth grade, Dr. Jerome Reed didn’t know he was going to become a globe-trotting “therapist for the human soul” with his piano talent. He did, however, know he was going to teach at Lipscomb. He told the president as much. Reed said when he was a child, Willard Collins, Lipscomb’s president at the time, used to speak at Reed’s church in Columbia, Tenn., on the first Sunday of each year. In fifth grade, Reed approached Collins and announced that he would one day be a professor at Lipscomb. Now after 30 years on campus, Reed, the Patricia and Rodes Hart professor of piano, said he couldn’t be more fortunate. “I think I have the best job in the universe,” Reed said, “because I do something every day that I love so much, I would be glad to do it even if I weren’t paid to do it. It’s really a fabulous job.” Reed, also the director of the music division of the Governor’s School for the Arts, has performed across the U.S., Europe and South America. At least 54 times, Charles Ives’ Concord Sonata has been the featured piece. According to Reed, Ives’ Concord Sonata is a musical depiction of some of the authors who lived in Concord, Mass.—Bronson and Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. For almost a year, Reed spent time creating a PowerPoint presentation that would play during his performances of the nearly hour-long piece. The presentation includes Reed’s photos of the authors’ houses and scenery in Concord along with quotations from the authors. “I put...
