By: Jo-Jo Feng, IMSA News Staff Writer<\/p>\n
IMSA\u2019s student run group SMAC, Spreading Music Around the Community, hosted their first Coffeehouse of the new year this past Tuesday night. This Coffeehouse showcased a particularly interesting variety of songs. The performances’ genres were generally\u00a0 pop with touches of both classical and rap featured.<\/p>\n
The show started with Andre Bistrain\u2019s acoustic cover of “Baby Got Back” which created a humorous blend of soft instruments and vocals accompanied by crude rap lyrics. Perhaps one of the most popular performances of the night was Arjun Tambe\u2019s original composition — “The Buffalo Song,” a reference to senior Sylvester Botelho and his well-known antics. “The Buffalo Song” drew tremendous laughter from the crowd and a standing ovation.<\/p>\n
Other highlights from the show include the trio of Joanne Kwak, Judy Li, and Anna Gupta performing Adele\u2019s “Skyfall,” a song featured in the most recent James Bond film. Returning from the last Coffeehouse was instrumental duo Taylor Herr on the marimba and Saurabh Kumar on the cajon performed a mash-up of various songs by popular artists like Train, Kelly Clarkson, MGMT, and more.<\/p>\n
The successful Winter Coffeehouse created a casual environment for students to listen to and share good music.<\/p>\n
SMAC’s monthly event Coffeehouse brings together performances by board members and students looking for a chance to perform for<\/em> their peers.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By: Jo-Jo Feng, IMSA News Staff Writer IMSA\u2019s student run group SMAC, Spreading Music Around the Community, hosted their first Coffeehouse of the new year…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":8639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1019],"tags":[1309,1138,1310],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imsanews","tag-coffeehouse","tag-music","tag-smac"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8548"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8555,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548\/revisions\/8555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8548"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}