From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
Knox College’s weekly Jazz Night at McGillacuddy’s Restaurant, 58 S. Cherry St., will feature a free, public concert by the Dan Cray Group on June 14. Cray and his combo will perform 10 p.m. to midnight. Led by Cray on piano, the group includes Noah Preminger, tenor saxophone, who was the guest artist at this year’s Rootabaga Jazz Festival; Clark Sommers, bass; and Matt Carroll, drums… Opening for the Dan Cray Group will be the Knox Faculty Jazz Combo, performing 8 to 10 p.m… Read more…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
Memorial Day is seen as the unofficial start of summer, but it’s really summer in downtown Galesburg when a new season of Cafe in the Park kicks off… Megan Funk, a Knox College student and intern [for Galesburg Business Association] is designing yard signs with the farmers’ market on one side and Cafe in the Park on the other.
Bill Morris, vice president of the Galesburg Business Association, said Knox College has been very involved in the farmers’ market and has brought some new energy to that event. Music is planned for the farmers’ market this year. “We love the energy Knox College has brought to it,” he said of the farmers’ market. “Sustainable agriculture is coming. We’ve got some champions of it around here.”… Read more…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
GateHouse and Knox College are teaming up to bring a Pulitzer Prize winner to Galesburg. Sun-Times Reporter Mark Konkol will speak to newspaper editors and reporters during a conference starting at noon Thursday at the Best Western Prairie Inn, and then will talk to students at Knox College later in the day…
On Thursday afternoon, Konkol will go to the Knox College campus to speak with students for about 90 minutes. David Amor, acting chair of the Journalism Program, helped work out the details and funding. The event is being sponsored by GateHouse Media and Joe W. Morgan ’34 Fund for Journalism… Read more…
From: Galesburg Planet (Galesburg, IL)
Knox College Professor Robin Metz will participate in a panel discussion “Stormy, Brawling, Husky Chicago: Sandburg’s Literary Influences in the City of the Big” at 10am Saturday, April 21, at the Sandburg Historic Site Barn, 313 E. Third St., Galesburg, as part of the Sandburg Days Festival… Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Executive Director Donald G. Evans will lead the discussion about the profound impact Carl Sandburg made on Chicago’s literary landscape…
Metz received the Rainer Maria Rilke International Poetry Prize for his book “Unbidden Angel,” as well as more than 16 additional international awards… Read more…
From: WGIL (Galesburg, IL)
The sweet sounds of jazz music will once again be heard in parts of downtown Galesburg the latter half of this week. This marks the 32nd year of the Knox-Rootabaga Jazz Festival, Thursday through Saturday of this week primarily at McGillacuddy’s on Cherry Street, with the final performance Saturday night at the Orpheum Theatre… In addition to a number of Knox College-based groups featuring alumni, faculty and others, featured performers will be “Ted Sirota’s Rebel Souls” Friday night, and The Noah Preminger Group Saturday night… Read more…
From: Galesburg Planet (Galesburg, IL)
Nationally known public health and environmental activists Karen Hudson and Terry Spence will speak on “The ‘Hidden Costs’ of Industrial Animal Farming” at 7 pm Tuesday, March 27 on the Knox College campus… They will discuss their work and the current issues — environmental, social, and political — surrounding industrial meat production… Read more in the Galesburg Planet… Also in the Register-Mail…
