\n| Kneeling from left, Pete Horne, guitar, of Yazoo City: Eric Tamboli, keyboards, of Batesville; and Josh Langston, vocals, trombone, of Harmontown. Standing from left, Amber Willis, vocals, of Greenville; Cannon Grant, vocals, of Grenada; Troy Hodges, vocals, of Cleveland; Jamie Buchanan, vocals, of Kosciusko: Jay Griffing, drums, vocals, percussion, of Vicksburg; Jeremiah Matthews, bass, of Cleveland; and Will Kemper, guitar, of Cleveland. Seated on drums, Stephen Chew, drums, vocals, percussion of Madison<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n DeltaRoX, the Classic Rock band from the Delta Music Institute (DMI), was selected to perform as the opening act for the recently held 4th<\/sup> Annual Grammy U Kickoff event in Memphis. <\/font><\/p>\n <\/div>\n DeltaRoX, directed by DMI instructor Barry Bays, opened the show with a 20-minute performance of Classic Rock tunes, including “Mississippi Queen,” “Hit Me With Your Best Shot,” “The Boys Are Back In Town,” and “Sweet Emotion.” <\/span><\/div>\n <\/div>\n DeltaRoX band members are students enrolled in courses at the Delta Music Institute, a recording arts and music industry studies program at Delta State University.<\/span><\/div>\n <\/div>\n This year’s kickoff event held at Harris Hall on the campus of the University of Memphis, was the first of several events scheduled this year for Grammy U students and members of the Memphis Chapter of the Recording Academy. Several Grammy U students from Delta State attended the kickoff event in addition to DeltaRoX.<\/span><\/div>\n <\/div>\n The GRAMMY University Network (GRAMMY U) is a unique and fast-growing community of college students who are pursuing a career in the music industry. The Recording Academy®<\/sup> created GRAMMY U to help prepare students for careers in the recording industry through networking, educational programs and performance opportunities. <\/span><\/div>\n <\/div>\n GRAMMY U is designed to enhance students’ current academic curriculum with access to recording industry professionals to give an “out of classroom” perspective on the recording industry. <\/span><\/div>\n <\/div>\n DMI’s Grammy U chapter was formed in the fall of 2008 and now has over 50 members. Currently serving as chapter officers are Greg Cobb, senior of Collierville, Tenn., president; Brian Thomson vice-president; and Vickie Jackson secretary-treasurer of Clarksdale. Faculty advisors for DMI’s Grammy U chapter are instructors Mike Iacopelli and Barry Bays.<\/span><\/div>\n <\/div>\n The Delta Music Institute is an independent center of study under the College of Arts and Sciences at Delta State. It began with a generous donation by Fred Carl of the Viking Range Corporation in 2003. The focus of the DMI is to provide students with a broad and thorough education in the technological, creative, and business areas of the music and entertainment industry.<\/span><\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kneeling from left, Pete Horne, guitar, of Yazoo City: Eric Tamboli, keyboards, of Batesville; and Josh Langston, vocals, trombone, of Harmontown. Standing from left, Amber Willis, vocals, of Greenville; Cannon…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41608,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions\/41608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |
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