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i rii si ri features April 21,1999 WCU Student No. 3 College Brass Player in Nation OPI When Casie R. Forbes was an 1 lth-grader at Rocky Mount Senior High School, she already had been playing the trombone for five years. So she was shocked when her band director came in one day and proclaimed, "Casie, you're going to tuba!" Forbes recovered from her surprise and picked up the big horn. "I started digging it," she said. On March 23, Forbes and her tuba traveled to California to represent Western Carolina University, the state of North Carolina, and six southeastern states at the Music Teachers National Association Collegiate Brass Artist Competition — the national championships for college brass players. Forbes, a junior at WCU, didn't win the competition, but she now has the distinction of being recognized as the third best college brass player in the country. "I was pleased with my performance. When I got there I didn't think I had a chance," Forbes said. "It was a great expe rience. Forbes, the daughter of Patricia Garner of Rocky Mount, said the happiest day of her life also occurred back in the 11th grade at Rocky Mount High, when she was named to the "all-district" honors band. She went on to earn that honor again in her senior year, and also captured "all-state" honors. Forbes entered WCU in 1996, and she has surrounded herself in music. She is currently a member of seven ensembles at WCU; Marching Band, Pep Band, Wind Ensemble, Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble, Trombone Ensemble, Li'l Smoky Brass Quintet, and Tuba Quartet. In May 1998, Forbes was one of 75 young musicians from throughout the country who were chosen to perform at Carnegie Hall with the prestigious National Wind Ensemble. Forbes' road to the national competition in Los Angeles began last fall when she won the state contest for college brass players. She went on to capture first place in the Southern Division of the Music Teach ers Association, competing against the best brass players from six southeastern states. After returning from California, Forbes joined three other WCU student musicians in the WCU Tuba-Euphonium Quartet — Mike Taylor, Rahsaan McNeil, and Chuck Hamlett -- in winning a regional college ensemble competition at North Greenville College in South Carolina. Forbes, a music major at WCU, says her long-range goal is to earn a master's degree, and possibly a doctorate, in music. She wants to teach other young people to play, as she does, "with a lot of emotion." Rocky Mount's Casie Forbes Photo courtesy of OPI Spring Fling to Feature Gran Torino by Jeffrey Sykes Staff Writer Gran Torino smokes. Not out of the tail pipe of some beat up old Ford your granddaddy drove, but out of the horns and rhythmic interaction of this eight-piece band from Knoxville. Since the release of their first full length studio record, One, recorded in 1997 and mixed at Overdublane Recording Studios in Durham, Gran Torino has risen to sell out nearly every show they play. Maybe you've seen them in Asheville at Be Here Now, where the band has played on New Year's Eve, or in Winston-Salem at Ziggy's, or Greenville, Athens, Raleigh, or Atlanta. This combination rock, jazz, soul, and R&B group is making waves across new markets from New York to New Orleans. Currently working on new songs in Knoxville, lead singer Chris Ford said in a telephone interview this week that the band is trying to become more polished. "We are in the pre-production phase right now and are going into the studio in May," he said. The band is working with Raleigh's John Custer, who has worked with the band Dag, a Triangle favorite. The band formed in the summer of 1995, when the eight members were all student at the University of Tennessee. The horn players were in UT's jazz program and the others were, according to Ford, "plugging along in various rock bands." Photo cortesy of LMP Gran Torino will be playing on April 23 at WCU's Spring Fling. "All of our tastes are into jazz and R&B, so it was a common bond," he said. Gran Torino began playing the Knoxville, Chattanooga, Johnson City circuit, until they all decided to quit school and work on their music full time. With the current recording project, the band has cut back to touring mostly on the weekends. "Right now we are trying to spend four or five days at home to work on ideas," Ford stated. Each of Gran Torino's songs stands on its own, but as any fan of the group knows, they are marked by deep groove riffs, with tantali/.ingly fresh horn phrases mixed with an unmistakable positive vibe. "We have a lot of positive energy and that's what we try to convey in our stage performance," said Ford. "We are really excited about coming to the [Cullowhee] metropolitan area." Gran Torino will headline Spring Fling this Friday at 3:00 p.m. on the UC lawn. The band will be joined by local favorite Firstman, and Cullowhee's all-time favorite reggae band Mystic Vibration. The event will include yard toys and Dinner on the Lawn, and is sponsored by LMP, Resident Student Association, and WCU Housing. Are Exams stressing you out? We have a solution The WCU Japanese Animation Society is throwing an Exam Jam May 11 in the Rogers Room at the UC. The Exam Jam will be from 12 noon until 10pm; we will be taking requests. Join us, for food, drinks, games, and more! For more fun, Sat. May 1, 1st annual May-Day Anime will be in Neo-Tokyo in downtown Asheville. This will be a showing from 4pm to 9pm involving anime fans from App State, UNC-Asheville, UNC-Charlotte, WCU, and all points in between. Two events must see events for the stressed out student! For more information on these two events, check out our web page at: www3.wcu.edu/-wcuanime/ or email us at: wcuaiinieg'w'.u.*-du

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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.
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  - Western Carolina University
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  - Date original: 1999-04-21
  - Date digitized: 2020-01-29
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  - Dimension: 14" x 11.25"
  - Pages: 16 pages
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- Location
  - Jackson County (N.C.)
  - Cullowhee (N.C.)
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
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  - WCU Students Newspapers Collection
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  - HL_WesternCarolinian_1999-04-21_Vol63_No28
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  - Western Carolina University Hunter Library

Western Carolinian Volume 63 (64) Number 28

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