Maybe it’s the raw emotion of this episode. Maybe it’s the intimacy of the backstage accounts. Or maybe it’s the excitement leading up to the Blowout concert. We can’t say for sure. But whatever it is about Episode 4 of Take 5, it’s caused the thing to spread like wildfire within and outside of the [...]
Tag Archives: Five-Week Summer Performance Program
Launching Take 5: Episode 1
February 24, 2010 – 2:23 pm
Making the Take 5 Documentary: 1. Put Flip-cams in envelopes. √ 2. Seal envelopes. √ 3. Mail to six teenage musicians around the country to have them film their lives. √ 4. Cross fingers and pray! √
Karen Cowley talks about Five-Week
November 6, 2009 – 11:00 am
180 international students from all corners of the globe attended the Five-Week Summer Performance Program this past summer. We first heard from Karen Cowley when she attended the Berklee in Dublin program this past April. Cowley won a scholarship to Five-Week there, and we followed her to get the inside scoop on her experience at [...]
Faith and gospel leads teen to Boston from Robert Johnson Blues Showcase
April 20, 2009 – 12:06 pm
Crystal Springs is more then 200 miles south of Clarksdale. It is 10 miles north of Hazlehurst, where Robert Johnson was born. A grandson of the most legendary Delta blues musician is Steven Johnson. He and his family make their home here. Steven’s father, Claude, Robert Johnson’s son, and his mother live close by. At [...]