Walking into The Street Hearts’ rehearsal, it is clear that the five musicians are comfortable with one other. They complete one other’s sentences, comfortably sway together in time and tease one other. Read more...
Photo: The Street Hearts are a folk-soul band that performed and won the award for best band at Spring Sing 2013. This year, the band will take Pauley Pavilion’s stage to perform its new song “Darlin’, Don’t Go.” (Jose Ubeda/Daily Bruin staff)
We the Folk has a simply worded question for its audience, from a heartbroken man and his loyal friends: “Won’t You Come Back?” We the Folk will perform the song “Won’t You Come Back?” Friday at this year’s Spring Sing. Read more...
Photo: The folk band We the Folk has been experimenting with new sounds to create its Spring Sing song “Won’t You Come Back?” The song mixes both urban and East European Gypsy sounds. (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin)
Full of funky sounds and musicians, 10-piece R&B; and soul collective The Primaries have been preparing for their Spring Sing debut Friday. The band members say they are ready, due to their evolution in the last year. Read more...
Photo: A 10-piece R&B and soul collective, The Primaries is composed of all music students. The band will perform its original song “Two Steps” this Friday in Pauley Pavilion for Spring Sing 2014. (Daily Bruin file photo)
The first time Alex Liu and Eric Jung met was during a desperate scramble to fill empty spaces in a production roster. As a second-year student, Liu realized his fraternity’s 2011 Spring Sing production was lacking musicians and reached out to Jung, then a first-year, through recommendations by friends and fraternity brothers. Read more...
Photo: (Shreya Aiyar/Daily Bruin) Three years after meeting at Omega Sigma Tau fraternity, fourth-year neuroscience student Eric Jung (left) and fifth-year world arts and cultures student Alex Liu (right) will perform Friday at Spring Sing 2014.
Courtney Randall dreamed about singing at Spring Sing before she’d even been accepted to UCLA. In 2011, her dream came true. Randall, a first-year at the time, took home the award for best overall entry and the honor of best solo artist the following year. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Bryant Hom) Third-year mechanical engineering student Moonsoo Jo (left), known under the stage name Beat Rhino, will perform a duet at Spring Sing with fourth-year psychology student and singer-songwriter Courtney Randall (right).
Spring Sing 2014 duet performers Brandon Bakhshi and Yasmeen Al-Mazeedi said working toward Spring Sing feels not just like bonding on a musical level, but almost like a marriage. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Nikki Klepper) Having both performed at Spring Sing last year, third-year violin performance and political science student Yasmeen Al-Mazeedi and fourth-year psychology student Brandon Bakhshi will perform as a duet this Friday.
Check out A&E's weeklong coverage of Spring Sing 2014, with profiles of this year's student musicians, dancers and actors participating in UCLA's oldest musical tradition. Read more...
