upcoming 2024-25 MUSIC LAB dates (season 8):
September 27 ○ October 25 ○ November 22 ○ January 31 ○ February 28 ○ March 28 ○ April 25 ○ May 23 ○
For all updates, stay tuned to our Facebook + Instagram pages (@gwmuslclab)
NEXT LAB: Music & Sound Design feat. KLASSIK!
GET READY, EVERYBODY!! Our next Lab session for Season 8 is only 2 weeks away - & this one won’t be one to miss! 🔥
Our theme of the month is "Music & Sound Design,” featuring Milwaukee’s own award-winning musician, producer & performing artist, Klassik! He’ll be sharing the ins & outs of the development of his craft, AND leading a special music production workshop with students from the Lab audience!
As always, middle & HS students ages 13-18 can also register to perform in our teen open mic (sign-ups open until the day b4 Lab or slots are full.) PLUS, we’ll have free food via ian’s Pizza, a live DJ for our social hour & a teen prize giveaway of GWML gear!
Join us on Friday, November 22nd, in-person at Radio Milwaukee: Teen Social Hour at 4pm & Lab goes live at 5. Students RSVP to attend or sign up for the teen open mic today on our home page at gwmusiclab.com!
*NOTE: All Lab attendees, including students, parents, family & teachers, must RSVP online for entry.
*Teen Open Mic slots are limited! Registration open until day before Lab or when slots are full. Clean show tracks & instrumentals for Open Mic can be sent as YouTube/SoundCloud links or mp3s to gwmusiclab@radiomilwaukee.org
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Grace Weber’s Music Lab is presented by HYFIN, a Radio Milwaukee station, & sponsored in part by American Family Insurance, & MPS Partnership for the Arts & Humanities.
GUEST BIO:
Kellen “Klassik” Abston, a self-described “Black Pastoral Sonic Landscape Painter,” is an award-winning Milwaukee-born-and-based musician, producer, songwriter, performing artist, and community curator. Named the City of Milwaukee's 2021 Mildred L. Harpole "Artist of the Year", Klassik's jazz-saturated hip-hop/soul, informed by years of traditional jazz study and Milwaukee Public Schools arts education, has taken him from summer festival stages and crowds of thousands, to classroom settings inspiring youth of all ages throughout Wisconsin. His 2019 LP "QUIET.", was named the #1 album of the year by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and was awarded Critic's Choice and Solo Artist honors at the 2019 Radio Milwaukee Music Awards. 2022 saw Klassik collaborating with both the Milwaukee Art Museum, producing the original composition and video performance "Nobody's Watching", and Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, producing and performing an all-original score for their production of Brian Quijada’s "Where Did We Sit On The Bus?" In 2024, he again reprised the role of music director and performer with MCT for the season-opening retelling of Homer’s Epic Iliad with, “An Iliad.” A true "Klass Act", Klassik works to stir the souls of listeners into action with empathy, passion, and purpose through his own vulnerable and self-reflective sonic art.
MORE INFO: https://www.iamklassik.com/
