Volume 124 Issue 144
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Friday, April 27, 2012
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ENTERTAINMENT
Q&A:
Greylag
//RACHEL SCHULTZ
Although Greylag's Andrew Stonestreet attended Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville for a year, he soon left after advice from his professors. He knew he wanted to be a musician and, being a history and philosophy major, didn't want to "pay to be fickle" any longer. Originally from West Virginia, Andrew Stonecrest made the move to Portland in 2009 to pursue his music career with friend and now fellow band member Daniel Dixon. Greylag's first album, "The Only Way to Kill You," debuts in May and is a culmination of genres, especially folk, blues and rock and roll. The band opens for Augustana at the Granada on May 2.
WHY DID YOU TURN TO SINGING? HOW DID YOU GET IN TO MUSIC AND BEGIN YOUR CAREER?
I've been in music my whole life. When I was 11 or 12, I started writing songs — they were horrible. Daniel and I started the project several years ago and when we moved to Portland it began to solidify.
HOW DID THE BAND GET ITS NAME? WHAT'S THE MEANING BEHIND IT?
We just wanted to pick something that didn't have a real association with anything. When you're a band you've just gotta have a name, something to call yourselves (laughs). It doesn't hold a lot of weight.
WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT LIVE PERFORMANCE AND LIVE MUSIC?
There's something special that happens on stage. There's an intimacy with the people you're playing with and the people you're playing for and I've always loved it. I get a sense that it draws people together in a really unique way, more than most things, and there's a special kind of unity for a short moment in time.
HAVE YOU EVER PERFORMED IN LAWRENCE BEFORE? No. But I have exactly one friend from Kansas.
WHAT CHALLENGES DO YOU FACE IN THIS BUSINESS?
I think from a band's perspective the goal is always to have a band you can hold closely and have deep friendship with. Mixing friendships and art and money together is not an easy task. You have to know how to define those things and keep them as separate as possible.
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU'RE NOT TRAVELING OR MAKING MUSIC?
A lot of hiking and walking and I love going to the coast, having bonfires and having friends over and just enjoying Portland. So many things that are beautiful to do. I bike everywhere up. It's just relaxing.
IF YOU WEREN'T PURSUING A CAREER IN MUSIC, WHATWOULD YOU BE DOING? Definitely something that has a large element of creativity involved, like painting or design, or something between design and a form of photography. I've also thought a lot about having a bike shop.
WHAT DO YOU LOOK FORWARD TO IN YOUR FUTURE CAREER?
Hopefully sustaining it and being able to continue doing it and making music.I'd like to be able to live and take care of myself and my loved ones and do what I love.
WHAT ADVICE DO YOU HAVE FOR COLLEGE AGE PEOPLE?
I think college is a beautiful and rewarding thing. It can give you a strong context for moving forward, as long as you are moving forward. But being a professional student is a danger, mostly for financial reasons. So keep diggin' try and remain curious and never lose wonder. Never let things be so controlled. Pursue passion.
Daniel Dixon (left) and Andrew Stoneestreet make up the up-and-coming band from Portland, Greylag, mixes acoustic guitar and harmonic vocals to create a compilation of sounds. The band opens for Augustana Wednesday, May 2, at the Granada.
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Documentary prompts race discussion in schools
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Patrick Monroe, a senior from New Berlin, Wis., looks through a lens to focus a shot for his documentary. The documentary features the "Can We Talk" program at Free State High School, which focuses on racial issues in public schools.
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Sylvia Yimer, a graduate student in the School of Social Welfare, went to visit the program "Can We Talk" at Free State High School. "Can We talk" is a localized part of a national program. Yimer said her visit was driven by her interest in race equality in public schools.
Yimer said the program was meant to facilitate understanding of different races and reduce the academic performance gap between white students and students of minority groups. She said she was surprised by how unrecognized the program
A group of University students is producing a documentary called, "Courageous Conversations about Race," a program encouraging high school students to face racial issues.
Last September, Yimer brought the documentary idea to a University student club, the Documentary Film Society. The student club was just established by then. The president of the club, Patrick Monroe, a senior studying film, was excited to hear about the idea.
Monroe said it was great to know that Sylvia was as dedicated as he was to filming and directing.
"Film can be used to make change and be the outlet for voices that are marginalized to be heard," Yimer said. "These kids wouldn't get an opportunity to get their stories heard without someone giving that to them necessarily."
Yimer said Singleton was personable. The author set aside more than four hours of his day to meet exclusively with Monroe and Yimer.
The program is inspired by the book "Courageous Conversations about Race — a Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools," by Glenn Singleton and Curtis Linton. In February, Yimer and Monroe flew to San Francisco to interview and film Singleton.
was. Yimer decided to make a documentary to raise awareness of the program.
"It was easy to tell how passionate he was about his work and how eager he was to help us," Yimer said. "The interview with Glenn is by far the most important interview for the film."
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"Since we started,we were focusing on funding and didn't have
During spring break the team conducted an interview with a Free
Monroe said the project would expand through the school year and develop into a 70-minute feature.
Monroe said a lot of work needs to be done to make the documentary successful and he hoped they could eventually send the documentary to film festivals. He hasn't yet announced a release date.
anything solid to work on," Monroe said. "Then Sylvia called me with this golden idea."
"As a filmmaker, I hope this will be a calling card not just for me, for the club, but for KU," Monroe said. "We want to show people what KU students are capable of."
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