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Jazz studies director Reggie Thomas conducts the NIU Jazz Ensemble while his wife, Mardra Thomas, performs vocals at a Martin Luther King Jr. tribute show Jan. 19. The group performed a protest song by Billie Holiday.

Musicians use MLK day to promote unity on campus

By Darius Parker | January 20, 2015

Darius ParkerStaff writerT @Sir_HarlemDeKalb | Students used live music and poetry to pay tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Monday in the Holmes Student Center’s Carl Sandburg Auditorium.The event, which was hosted by The International Association...

Student musician plans for one-shot mixtape

By Claire Buchanan | October 19, 2014

Kenneth Leftridge, senior jazz studies major, plans to create a one-take mixtape with Free Lunch, a hip-hop and jazz band comprised of students who perform Mondays at the Holmes Student Center’s The College Grind.Leftridge and Free Lunch have started...

Holmes cafe mixes live music into coffee

By James Green | February 4, 2014

The Holmes Student Center’s College Grind will host live music Monday nights for free.For the first three Mondays of every month, the Leftridge Sextet, led by Kenneth Leftridge, senior jazz studies major, will play at 8 p.m. at the cafe.A different...