WR on the field, R&B off the field
Micah Hamilton, former Idaho football player turned musician to graduate this spring

After spending the last four years as an Idaho football player, Micah Hamilton found a new passion — music.  Growing up with his mother, a music teacher, he was encouraged […]

Entertaining the Moscow masses
Finals Fest continues to bring a variety of performers to campus each year

Screaming crowds, a pulsing beat and music bouncing throughout the ASUI-Kibbie Activity Center, increasing the already loud sound of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.   In 2013, the music duo made […]

Seeing the music
Musical artists are finding new ways to push an album’s limits

About 15 years ago, our music consumption was vastly limited. If it wasn’t on our parents’ radios or in their CD rotations, we just didn’t hear it and we certainly […]

The man behind the name
Doc Skinner volunteers to host workshops all about his friend, Lionel Hampton

Doc Skinner sits at the head of a half-filled classroom of middle schoolers repeating to them the stories he has of Lionel Hampton. The students are silent except for the […]

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Music outside the box
Jazz fest workshop Thursday focuses on composers in the 20th Century

Over 50 Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival attendees joined University of Idaho Associate Professor of Piano Roger McVey for a Music Outside the Box workshop about composers from the 20th century […]

Sharing the stage with their audience
The Palouse Jazz Project provided a preview for the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival at Tuesday’s Malcolm Renfrew Interdisciplinary Colloquium

Attendees of the Malcolm Renfrew Interdisciplinary Colloquium Tuesday afternoon witnessed a tradition quite unlike most of the colloquium’s sessions. Community members and students sat in a circle on the Haddock […]

All that jazz
UI Lionel Hampton School of Music to host jazz choirs, bands concert Tuesday evening

The University of Idaho Lionel Hampton School of Music will host a concert 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, with the jazz choirs and bands in the Administration Building Auditorium. The two-hour event […]

‘Relieved to be back on the road’
Hawthorne Roots revisits John's Alley tonight, playing with the Drunken Hearts

Hawthorne Roots may not be Moscow natives, but they are definitely familiar with the Palouse. They will play at John’s Alley Tavern 9:30 p.m. tonight, making it the band’s fourth appearance […]

Funky Christmas jams
Broaden your Christmas playlist with these lesser known holiday songs

For a portion of the holiday-loving population, Christmas tunes began the minute Halloween ended. Even though Christmas music is a favorite genre, the tunes this time of the year tend […]

Same holidays, better music
Listen to better music this Christmas

As we approach Christmas, the classic signs of the season will start to come out of the woodwork. Classic red cups have already popped up at every coffee shop and […]