Musician Omar Apollo was named Dillo Day’s 2021 daytime headliner, according to a Wednesday release from Mayfest Productions.
Apollo is the first performer Mayfest has announced to the Northwestern community. Dillo Day 2021 will center around the theme of POSTMODERN, and is scheduled for May 22. The event will include both in-person and virtual content after a year of virtual Dillo programming due to COVID-19.
“My team and I have had Omar Apollo on our radar for years now,” Mayfest Director of Booking Amirah Ford said in the news release. “Watching him develop, Omar has clearly distinguished himself as this genre-bending bilingual rising star.”
The shooting in Atlanta on March 16 was the latest tragedy in a year filled with about 3,800 reports of anti-Asian violence, with countless more unreported. I’ve become less and less shocked with each report of violence, but I hesitate to even regard this past year as a “rise” of anti-Asian hate. The hate has.
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MADISON SMITH: Here’s what’s been happening in the headlines. In Evanston, teachers said they were blindsided by the decision to begin hybrid instruction in April, despite months of collaboration between Evanston Township High School/District 202 administrators and the school’s certified staff union.
SHEENA TAN: And the City Council has voted to accept Artist Book House’s proposal for the Harley Clarke Mansion, after years of extensive delays and community-wide debate over its future. The book house hopes to transform the mansion into a literary center.
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ILANA AROUGHETI: Here’s what’s been happening in the headlines. The Faculty Senate planned to vote on allocating their seats by tenured faculty members instead of by departments. If that happens, the Senate would include the Asian American Studies and Latina and Latino Studies programs for the first time. This effort would build on the recent push for better representation of the ethnic studies programs, which are not recognized as disti
Band Noah Toritto has never rehearsed in the same room or played live. Find out how they wrote “I Know Fish Can’t Really Hurt Me” completely virtually on the newest episode of Sound Source.
DANIELLA TELLO-GARZON: From The Daily Northwestern, I’m Daniella Tello-Garzon. You’re listening to Sound Source, a podcast tuning into music on and around campus. The song you’re currently hearing is called, “THE END,” and it’s the last song on the unreleased album, “I Know Fish Can’t Really Hurt Me.”
The album was made completely virtually by a musical group currently named Noah Toritto who has never played or rehearsed their music live. With three main members and various contributors, the group produces instrumental music that has elements of jazz, blues and rock. Today, I’m talking to Noah Toritto, Seamus Masterson and Jared May about their new album and a few of their singles.