Lady Antebellum, Brockport idols amaze concert crowd
By Allison Kowalski
LIFESTYLES EDITOR
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For the first time in years, students at the College at Brockport made their way to the Seymour Union College Ballroom to attend a country concert performance courtesy of WBEE, a country radio station in the Rochester area.
Cowboy hats and cowboy boots were not out of place as a throng of students headed into the Ballroom to hear the 2006 and 2007 Brockport Idol winners, Amber Rose Regling and Rebekah Nowak, local Rochester band Flint Creek and the most anticipated act, country trio Lady Antebellum. Read More
Irish summer stirs up memories, old friends and lost romances
By Angela Archunde
COPY EDITOR
Dancing at Lughnasa tells the story of a family with dreams too big for their modest life. It was the summer of 1936 in a small village called Ballybeg outside of Donegal, Ireland. The five Mundy sisters kept a small farmhouse. The oldest sister, Kate (Amanda Charlebois), acts as a tyrannical teacher to her younger siblings. Maggie (Andrea Macy), who is rambunctious and jovial, often tries to keep the peace among the family by acting silly or telling a riddle. Christina (Callie Jean Slusser), or Chris, is the hopeless romantic of the family with an 8-year-old son, Michael, who was born out of wedlock. Agnes (Rachel Soloman), who is rather quiet and shy, keeps to herself by knitting most of the time, and looking after the youngest sister Rose (Nikki Trombley). Young Rose, a naïve girl, often acts as a hopeless romantic herself.
The sisters bicker and giggle away doing their house chores while 8-year-old Michael plays outside with his kites. Michael (Spencer Christiano) tells the story as a grown man. He reminisces of the good times and laughter that was shared during that summer. All of the girls help care for Michael. Maggie, Christina, Agnes and Rose all have hopes to go to the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates a day of Lugh, god of music and light. Kate won’t let her younger sisters to attend the deity of a pagan.