Brittany Nader
Producer/WKSU ShuffleBrittany Nader joins Morning Edition host Amanda Rabinowitz on Thursdays to chat about Northeast Ohio’s vibrant music scene. As Shuffle Producer, she provides planning, scheduling, strategy and writing support for WKSU's weekly spin through local music.
Brittany earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communication, with a concentration in magazine journalism, from Kent State University in 2013. She has contributed stories to local publications including The Devil Strip, Cleveland.com, Buzzbin Magazine and Akron Beacon Journal’s Savor Ohio magazine. She currently works as a Content Specialist at Drips in Akron, Ohio. In her downtime, she enjoys reading, cooking, playing with her cats and dog and immersing herself in Akron’s music scene.
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A group of Northeast Ohio independent music venues has spent the past five months planning how to reopen safely amid the coronavirus pandemic. Now the venues have shifted to just trying to survive these winter months so they can reopen at all. -
Cleveland trumpeter Theresa May talks about the challenges of navigating a career in classical music for Black women, and her work with the popular band Mourning [A] BLKstar.
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Backline Cleveland is continuing to help launch the careers of undiscovered musicians in the Midwest by handing out $20,000 grants to four winners of its music accelerator program.
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It's been five years since Northeast Ohio saxophonist Chris Coles began working on "Nine Lives Project," a 40-minute music and performance piece intended to heighten awareness of ongoing racial injustice in America after the 2015 Charleston church shooting. Now, the project is complete and its four movements have been recorded. Coles says the project is intended to celebrate the achievements and greatness of Black Americans, rather than solely mourning the nine Black lives lost.
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In 2018, singer-songwriter Angie Haze led a performance with her theatrical ensemble, The Angie Haze Project, at the Akron Civic Theatre.
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There are some venues that are trying to reinvent themselves to keep their doors open.
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Backline Cleveland, a gener8tor program made possible by the City of Cleveland and The Finch Group, launched in June to grant local musicians the chance…
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Mourning [A] BLKstar is a diverse collective of Cleveland-based artists with layered identities. Its members aim to blur the lines of gender and genre…
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Across the state of Ohio, local music venues are struggling as the coronavirus pandemic has forced these entertainment hotspots to keep operations at a…
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As the COVID-19 stay-at-home order remains in place, earning wages through live performances and new album releases has been put on hold for many live…
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