Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives News http://blogs.bgsu.edu/music Another amazing bgsu blog Thu, 03 May 2012 17:10:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 New Content in American Song! http://blogs.bgsu.edu/music/2012/05/03/new-content-in-american-song/ http://blogs.bgsu.edu/music/2012/05/03/new-content-in-american-song/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 17:01:39 +0000 clevels http://blogs.bgsu.edu/music/?p=1397

Check out some of the new selections in the American Song streaming audio database:

212 albums (4,467 tracks) from Archeophone Records, Appleseed Records, Mark Custom, Rebel, Sun, and Tompkins Square Records. Content includes new releases of bluegrass, boogie-woogie, country, traditional gospel, marching band music, and more.

New albums include:

Fly Down Little Bird (Pete and Peggy Seeger)
Reagan of Illinois: A Symphony to Celebrate the Centennial of President Ronald Reagan’s Birth
Let the Light Shine Down: A Gospel Tribute to Bill Monroe
Out on the Open West (Frank Fairfield)
Let’s Make a Better World! Live in Leipzig (James Booker)

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Here for the summer semester and want to keep the scores and books you’ve borrowed?  Students, faculty and staff can start renewing their checked out items TODAY.

Undergraduates, graduates can renew their items in person by presenting the to-be-renewed items to the staff at the circulation staff.

Faculty can renew online or in-person, however, overdue books cannot be renewed online.

Click here for more details.

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If you haven’t watched the Hullaballoo Discotheque Dance Videos yet, check them out on the Libraries’ YouTube channel.  Featuring BGSU dancers Michael Lee and Emily Konig, the videos include demonstrations of dances from the ’60s, including the Boston Monkey, the Twist, the Frug, and more!

And don’t miss your opportunity to see Michael and Emily (and others) live at the Footlights Dance Concert, each evening from Wednesday April 18th-Friday April 20th at 8:00 pm in 222 Eppler North!

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If you participated in our sleevefacing event yesterday, or just enjoy checking out the new sleevefaces, you’re in luck because they’re now posted several places:

Facebook
Library sleevefacing blog
Pinterest

High res versions aren’t posted on our Flickr account yet, but they will be soon.

Thanks to everyone who came out, and don’t forget the rest of the National Library Week celebrations in Jerome Library!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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]]> http://blogs.bgsu.edu/music/2012/04/06/lp-alert-15/feed/ 0 New CDs by BGSU faculty http://blogs.bgsu.edu/music/2012/03/21/new-cds-by-bgsu-faculty/ http://blogs.bgsu.edu/music/2012/03/21/new-cds-by-bgsu-faculty/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:50:17 +0000 clevels http://blogs.bgsu.edu/music/?p=1354 Take a gander at the new CDs list over on the right, and you’ll notice recordings featuring performances by two of our BGSU faculty members, Dave Bixler (40 Acres and a Burro) and Morgen Stiegler (Reaching for the Moon), plus another with compositions by Burton Beerman, Mikel Kuehn, Elainie Lillios, and Marilyn Schrude (Voices of Dissent)!  All three are currently available for check out, so get them while they’re hot!


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