The WCU Music Department will hold it’s annual “Sounds of the Season ” fundraising concert today at 3 p.m. at the Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center. The concert will feature performances from WCU students and faculty as well as the Smokey Mountain High School show choir. Tickets are $15 for the general public , […]
Dillsboro lights up WNC holiday season
December 1, 2011 by
The first two weekends in December the town of Dillsboro will be hosting their 28thannual Festival of Lights and Luminaries. The town will be lit with over 2,500 candles around their shops and studios. The shopkeepers provide hot cocoa, holiday treats and live entertainment. Horse and buggy rides will be available each night from 5 to – […]
Big stars visit this “Small Town U.S.A.”
November 11, 2011 by
Justin Moore, Thompson Square, and The Buchanan Boys rocked The Ramsey Center at WCU on Thursday night. College kids and locals packed the arena as they sang and swayed to the country and southern rock music. Justin Moore got the crowd going with his well-known songs Bait a Hook, Small town U.S.A., and If Heaven […]
Comedian Bo Burnham performs at Western
November 2, 2011 by
Bo Burnham left students laughing after the Wednesday, Oct. 26, show in the Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center. Burnham is a 21 year old satire comedian from Hamilton, Massachusetts. He started doing comedy at a young age, but he found his fame five years ago after posting his skits and songs on Youtube. Since […]
After Poverty Project launch, students unclear about goals
October 11, 2011 by
The second event of WCU’s Poverty Project, a movie entitled “Inside Job”, was held at the end of September in the UC Theater, yielding less than 20 people and only a handful of those being students. The movie focuses on the economic crisis of 2008 and how key players on Wall Street bargained, made corrupt […]
