Music UW-Green Bay News Posts

Big Mouth winners at BAMMYS honor Jay Whitney during awards ceremony that had some recipients snowbound | UW-Green Bay’s Adam Gaines received Instructor of the Year | Green Bay Press Gazette

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Mar 21, 2025

GREEN BAY – It was a celebration of long careers and short speeches Wednesday night at The Tartlon Theatre, and the Bay Area Music Awards were just getting started. The second annual BAMMYS expanded from the 25 categories of its inaugural year to 42 to include more genres, turning the awards ceremony into a two-night affair. The second set of honorees will…

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Brown County’s creative sector aims to boost local economy and community connections

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Madalyn Paulsen

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May 15, 2024

BROWN COUNTY (WLUK) — The arts are alive in Brown County, generating nearly $12 million in revenue each year. But efforts are underway to tap into those resources for the betterment of the community and the economy. Painters, sculptors, actors and musicians — there are nearly 6,500 Brown County residents who make all or some…

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Green Bay’s creative agencies band together to unify the local arts and business world with the community | WFRV

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May 15, 2024

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – Following two research studies and a community-wide effort to merge the arts and business worlds, local organizers learned that the arts and culture sectors in Green Bay are having a bigger economic and community impact than ever before. Moving forward, the President and CEO of the Greater Green Bay Community…

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Best high school jazz band players to come together for UW-Green Bay’s Jazz Fest | WLUK

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Apr 13, 2023

GREEN BAY (WLUK) — For the first time ever, the best high school jazz band players from the Green Bay area are joining forces. They’re performing Friday night at the Weidner Center as part of the 53rd UW-Green Bay Jazz Fest. “I really like the idea of getting musicians who are really serious about what…

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Inspired by spam email | Wisconsin Public Radio

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Nov 17, 2022

UW-Green Bay Music professor, Michelle McQuade Dewhirst decided to do something creative with all the spam emails she was receiving. We talk about — and listen to — some of the results. Source: Inspired by spam email | Wisconsin Public Radio

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Community leaders bring “World Fest” to the region | Wisconsin Bankers Association

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Oct 4, 2022

The free, community-wide concert will take place on Saturday, October 8 at 7:00 p.m. at Theatre on the Bay, on the Marinette campus of UW-Green Bay. Several community leaders have come together to bring a three-year music program known as “World Fest” to Marinette and Menominee counties. The Stephenson National Bank & Trust (SNBT) is…

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Soul-Pop-Latin American? Pegasis Say They are Genre-Less – Shepherd Express (Hillman and Rissel Peguero met at UW-Green Bay and are alumni)

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Sue Bodilly

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Jun 16, 2022

What do gospel-singing sisters do when they want to sing about more than God? “We decided to become genre-less,” say siblings Marvellis, Yaina and Rissel Peguero (’17, Music), along with Rissel’s jazz guitarist husband, Matt Hillman (’17, Music), in a collective voice in an interview conducted online about their group, Pegasis. The WAMI-nominated quartet travels from…

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Warren Gerds/Extra!: Something new and big in the arts (highlights Sharon Resch gift for UW-Green Bay Institute of Music)

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Sue Bodilly

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Jun 14, 2022

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – Northeastern Wisconsin’s performing arts scene is on its way to getting a major boost. What’s happening is worth 76 trombones and a big parade – as in the song from the enduring musical “The Music Man.” A woman who once performed in a troupe that was greeted by 76 trombones…

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Lunchtime Recital: Rector-Hong Piano Duo, May 12 from Noon to 1:30 p.m. at The Weidner

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Sue Bodilly

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May 10, 2022

UW-Green Bay piano faculty members Michael Rector and Sylvia Hong will present an informal recital featuring some classic hits of the piano duo repertoire: Brahms’s Hungarian Dances, Ravel’s La valse, Debussy’s Petite Suite and Percy Grainger’s Fantasy on Themes from Porgy and Bess (Gershwin) on May 12, 2022 from Noon to 1:30 p.m. in Fort…

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UW-Green Bay working to raise $20M to support financial aid, academic programs | Wisconsin Public Radio

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Sue Bodilly

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May 10, 2022

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is working to raise $20 million within the next two years to support student financial aid and academic programming. Chancellor Michael Alexander says the goal is to maintain rapid enrollment growth without waiting on additional state dollars. While enrollment at most University of Wisconsin System campuses has declined in recent years,…

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