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College student wins
Harris Teeter jingle contest
Karia Causey has won Harris Teeter's annual "My
Harris Teeter Jingle Contest." A team of judges
reviewed hundreds of voice entries before picking
Causfey, a North Carolina native who describes her style
of music as a smooth blend of folk, blues and country.
With no formal voice training, she attributes her
love of music to her mother, two sisters and brother. As
far back as Karl a can remember, her family would gath
er around the piano and sing together or perform a cap
pella for one another. Causey is not just a singer; she is
a also a songwriter and plays both the piano and guitar.
Earlier this month she recorded the store's famous
jingle in a professional studio and is starring in a Harris
Teeter commercial scheduled to air during the season
finale of American Idol. Karla is keeping a pretty busy
schedule. She performs at various community and
church functions, festivals, and coffee houses, while fin
ishing her Arts degree from Mitchell Community
College. "Winning the Harris Teeter my jingle contest
couldn't have come at a better time," said Causey. "I
am going to use the $ 10,000 to build a platform, that will
allow me to bring more exposure to my music." .
Springsteen helping local charities
Legendary rpcker Bruce Springsteen, who performs
Monday, April 28 at the Greensboro Coliseum, has
tapped Project Green Leaf as one of two local charities
that will benefit from the traditional "Pass the Bucket"
fundraiser that is conducted at each of his concerts.
Even better, the Springsteen tour is providing
Project Green Leaf, which is based at The University of
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North Carolina at UreensDoro,
with two pair of VIP tickets,
which include backstage passes.
They were being auctioned on
the Charity Folks website this
week. Springsteen also chose the
Greensboro Urban Ministry.
"This is one of the most
exciting things that has hap
pened with the project," said Dr.
Susan * Andreatta
(Anthropology). Owho started
Project Green Leaf. "The ticket
auction and the 'Pass the
Bucket' collection will give us some much-needed sup
port, and just being selected validates this project's
efforts. "I got a call from the Springsteen tour to say that
we had been selected for 'Pass the Bucket.' I wondered
how they found us."
The answer was simple. Project Green Leaf was list
ed as a "community connection" on thVWorld Hunger
Year website, which was founded in 197?gind drew sup
port from singer Harry Chapin. The Springsteen tour
picked up on it. PGL is the ideal charity Springsteen
likes to support - a non-profit organization where peo
ple are helping themselves improve their daily lives.
The project's mission is to promote and support a
local agro-food systerti. Project Green Leaf is dedicated
to sustaining local agriculture by strengthening commu
nity between farmers and consumers, thus providing for
better quality of living .
Group to perform African
? American spirituals
The Spiritual Renaissance Singers of Greensboro
(SRSG) will celebrate the Greensboro Bicentennial
with a concert on Monday, April 28 at 7:30 p.m. at the
Carolina Theatre, 310 South Greene Street in
Greensboro.
The ensemble will perform a concert of unaccom
panied African-American spirituals and will honor
Charlotte Alston, Walter F. Carlson, Carl Foster,
Margaret Gill, Edward Lowe, Eloise Logan Penn, nd
Julia Ruth Richmond, African- American musicians
who have made long-term, significant contributions to
music in the Greensboro community in this century
and the last.
The public is invited to attend without charge and
to meet the Singers and honorees at a reception follow
ing the concert. This project received support from the
2008 Greensboro Bicentennial Commission and from
the Friends of the Spiritual Renaissance Singers of
Greensboro.
Rap veterans promote
No Profanity Day
Kurtis Blow and other Hip Hop icons are challeng
ing America. For one day: no crime, no violence, no
hate, no murders, no sin - and no profanity. Their
goals is to have one day of love, peace, unity, kind
ness, goodness, gentleness and fun with a series of
events throughout the course of a day.
August 9, 2009 is the day.
Kurtis Blow comments, "No Profanity Day is a
national holiday that is anointed and ordained right
from the Bible and God. What would it hurt to have
one day of this kind of behavior? Also, there is a No
Profanity Hip Hop Anniversary Tour launching in
May and June of 2008 to start the buzz for the nation
al holiday." q
In the last 30 years, rap has steadily become a cul
tural phenomenon and its influence dominates as
America's latest offering of pop culture to the world.
And now - the Parents Television Council, in partner
ship with the Enough is Enough Campaign, released
shocking new data about BET's and MTV's daytime
music video programming. As recently as March
2008, children who watched BET's "Rap City" and
"106 & Park" and MTV's "Sucker Free" on MTV
were bombarded with adult content - sexual, violent,
profane or obscene - once every 38 seconds.
Supporters of No Profanity Day include Rev.
Delman Coates, the NAACP, and thousands of other
hip-hop fans and icons.
Local steppers to
vie for national title
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT.
A national fraternity and
sorority stepping competition is
coming to Winston-Salem State
University this weekend.
The fifth annual "Boost
Mobile Stomping On The Yard"
National Step Show Tour: A
Celebration of "^Leadership,
Scholarship and Showmanship"
will land at the C?. Gaines
Center Complex on Saturday
(April 26) at 7 p.m. .
Step teams will compete for
supremacy while entertaining
the masses.
Since Fall 2003, The
Stomping On The Yard National
Step Show Tour has traveled to
more than 70 college campuses,
featured more than 420 National
Pan Hellenic Council organiza
tion step teams and entertained
more than 250,000 audience
members. Since its inception,
the event has awarded more than
$?88,000 in prizes and awards
to campus organizations.
WSSU is the fifth school
this spring that has hosted the
competition. The others were:
Chris Crawford
Old Dominion University,
California State University
Long Beach, Morgan State
University and the University of
Pennsylvania. The show will
visit Ohio State University May
2 - 3. A whole new slate of
schools will be added in the fall.
A national winner will be select
ed in September.
Each tour stop features two
components: a Yard Festival and
Step Show Competition. Prior to
the step show competition the
host university will hold a Yard
Festival, with activities like live
artist performances, interactive
games, vehicle displays and
product demonstrations. The
second component of the tour
will feature a Step Show during
which local fraternities, sorori
ties and campus organizations
showcase their skills on stage in
front of enthusiastic audiences.
The event's founder says
that the shows have provided an
excellent platform to get stu
dents involved in positive cam- ?
pus activities as well as provides
a great source of entertainment
to the public.
"Stepping is great," says
Chris Crawford, CEO and
founder of the Stomping On The
Yard National Step Show Tour.
"But we like to think stepping is
the honey to get people interest
ed in education. If high school
students see the different
National Pan Hellenic Members
having fun, working together
and positively impacting their
communities in groups that you
can only be a part of if you're in
college, maybe they'll want to
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PR Phoui
Acclaimed muscian Ryan Kisor will per
form at next month's festival.
Reagan
Boosters
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plan jazz
festival
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
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The Reagan High School Band Boosters
will present the second annual City of the Arts
Jazz Festival on Saturday, May 3. Music will
be played on two stages at Reagan High, 3750
Transou Road in Pfafftown.
The guest artist this year is Ryan Kisor,
lead trumpeter with the Lincoln Center Jazz
Orchestra. He will be performing with the
UNCG Jazz Ensemble at 8 p.m. in the Reagan
Auditorium.
Kisor began classical trumpet lessons at
age 12. By age 17, he won the Thelonius
Monk Institute's trumpet competition. He has
performed with Gerry Mulligan, Wynton
Marsalis, Wycliffe Gordon, Pat Metheny and
Horace Silver.
"We are delighted to have someone of
Ryan's celebrity and talent as part of our festi
val this year," stated Phillip Riggs, the band
director at Reagan High School. "Nineteen
Jazz groups from all over the state will be join
ing us. Many of the groups are returning for a
second year because they know our guest artist
and clinicians are the best in their field and
that Winston- Salem, the "City of the Arts," is
committed to offering quality programs that
enhance the quality of life for our communi
ty"
Guest clinicians during the festival will
include Ed Kiefer, Mark Clodfelter, Thomas
Taylor, and Chad Eby.
Kiefer graduated from Wake Forest
University and served as the director of bands
at East Davidson High School in Thomasville
for 28 years. Clodfelter is a native of Winston
Salem and the professor of trumpet at the
University of Kentucky. Taylor is one of the
drum set instructors for the Jamey Aebersold
Summer Jazz camps. Eby is a saxophonist and
composer who has been a featured soloist with
the Dallas Jazz Orchestra. He has shared the
stage with a diverse range of artists, including
Aretha Franklin and Branford Marsalis.
Other highlights of the festival include col
legiate jazz groups from UNCG, Wake Forest
University and the North Carolina School of
the Arts.
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Festival tickets are $5 or $10, which
includes the festival and a BBQ dinner before
the evening performance. Tickets can be pur
chased at the door. For information, call
Riggs at 336-703-6783 or email him at
PRiggs@ wsfcs .kl2.nc.us.
WSSU Photo
Dr. Roy Belfield will perform at WSSU Saturday .
Belfield to perform
ON CUTTING EDGE ORGAN
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
Dr. Roy Belfield, assistant professor of Music,
university organist, and assistant director of
Choral Studies at Winston-Salem State University,
will perform an organ recital on a new university
organ on Saturday, April 26, at 4 p.m. in Kenneth
R. Williams Auditorium.
The recital, which is free and open to the pub
lic, is presented by the WSSU Department of Fine
Arts and will feature works by composers Jehan
Alain, Phillip B. Mclntyre, Dan Millet, Johann
Sebastian Bach, Gerald Kemner, John W. Work,
III, Max Reger, and Henri Mulet.
Belfield teaches Music Theory and Choral
Arranging, and accompanies the Winston-Salem
State University Choir. He also serves as director
of Schola Cantorum, the University Men's
Ensemble.
He will perform his recital on a 4-manual
Rodgers Organ, which features bi-amplified
stered speaker systems. Rodgers was the first
organ company to use microprocessors in church
organs and introduced musical instrument digital
interface (MIDI) to the church organ world in
1987.
Belfield served on the faculty at Stillman
College in Tuscaloosa, Ala., before coming to
WSSU. He frequently serves as a choral adjudica
tor, guest conductor, concert organist and accom
panist across the country.
In 2007, he made his European debut as an
organ recitalist in Schomdorf, Germany, perform
ing at the Stadtkirche for its annual organ recital
Series.
As an educator, Belfield has taught students
from preschool to college age. As a church musi
cian, he has served six denominations throughout
the country. He currently serves as Church
Organist at United Metropolitan Missionary
Baptist Church in Winston-Salem.
Songbird Miki Howard is back with new CD
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
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The woman who made hits out of songs like "Love Under New
Management" and "Until You Come Back to Me," is ready to add
more classics to her repertoire.
Booker
Miki Howard has just released "Private
Collection," a disc of smooth jazz and soul
sounds.
Her first studio album in years features
five original songs written and is produced
by Howard and the ultra talented Chuckii
Booker.
The name "Private Collection" arose for
the CD's representation of Howard's favorite
jazz ballads. The disc features Howard soar
ing on the opening track "Crazee," and
bringing a lush feel to "Favorite Time of the
Year," and a down home blues vibe to tracks
like "Beer for Breakfast."
"Private Collection is the kind of record that you live to." says
Howard. "You play it in the car, play it while you clean your house,
play it at cocktail parties, that's the kind of record this is, it is my
private collection. I'm sure that it will not disappoint my fans, old
and new."
Howard is known for her appearances on the big screen. In
1992, Spike Lee casted her as Bill(e Holiday in his film. "Malcolm
X." She also starred in John Singleton's "Pottic Justice."
"Private Collection" is exclusively available at her website,
www.miki-howard.com, where it can be downloaded or ordered on
a CD. The site also features information about upcoming tour dates.
Vfiki Howard is known for a long string of hits.