The event will also feature performances from local LGBTQ artists and allies, including Rochara Knight, Robin Anderson and Meredith Shaw.

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The festival celebrates music videos, featuring 25 to 30 local and international submissions. It will screen the short films inside Columbia businesses, and is intended to inspire new creative collaborations across different areas of the art scene

Anderson will be on the other side of conducting at Carnegie Hall when she trades in her director’s role to sing with her choir. Until then, she will continue to ready her group of singers.

Each of these areas and audiences will have a chance to learn what Columbia has known for some time — that the pair of singers are serious talents.

Audra Sergel, her jazz quintet and six vocalists known as the Elan Singers will gather ’round the J.W. “Blind” Boone Piano for the third session of the Boone Piano Concert Series at the Boone County Historical Society

the benefit of a front row seat for over a year….my stay in Columbia is enhanced by each of them. They are a gift to the city.

The local singer's voice glides elegantly along each melody she writes. But beneath the glassy surface, Anderson engages in tricky creative labor. Her music unites the syntax of pop, folk, jazz and musical theater; her lyrics address a fragile world with both hope and an askew sense of humor.

Host Diana Moxon speaks to Meg Phillips Crespy, Robin Anderson, and Rochara Knight about Strange New Worlds, an evening of performance at Talking Horse Productions.

When you get a once in a lifetime opportunity, the enthusiasm and the excitement that you feel is contagious…

Anderson connects the sights and sounds of the festival

Singer Robin Anderson and filmmaker Matt Schacht partnered up for a first-time project

Academia's 'working poor' juggle duties, expectations

These are people with something to say and, knowing what each has gone through to be able to say them, will make the experience all the more strange and special.

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Matt Schacht talks to Robin Anderson before the studio artist panel on Saturday at Dogwood Artist Workspace. Schacht is the festival venue tech and Anderson is the public relations lead and a researcher for the VidWest Music Video Festival.

The ensemble joins 24 other choirs in a performance of composer and conductor Joseph Michael Martin’s Appalachian Winter: A Bluegrass Christmas.

Four active members in Columbia’s music scene tell us what new music they recommend as the leaves turn and air gets crisp.

Bethel Baptist Church will host the program “Be the Love,” featuring music, art, spoken word and dance performances.

It is a special thing to see or hear a new work birthed into the world. Columbia audiences have the chance to enjoy that experience to the fourth power this weekend.

She told them she was going to learn to hoop. Although some were skeptical, she devised a practice schedule and set to work, giving them progress updates along the way via videotapes. That way, Anderson said she could show them an end result, then step back and teach them how to break up the steps to reach that point. She could relate to their challenges and teach her students how to move past them.