After a dark year, GOVAN and Kiarah Davis want to share warmth and sunshine with their audience. Under the stage name GOVAN, third-year theater student Michael Hackett will be making his Spring Sing debut with fourth-year theater student and Spring Sing veteran, Kiarah Davis. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year theater student Kiarah Davis and third-year theater student Michael Hackett, who performs under stage name GOVAN, will perform GOVAN’s song “Shady Sunshine.” (Photo illustration by Anika Chakrabarti/Daily Bruin staff and Emily Dembinski/Illustrations director)

Silva, a band of 14 jazz musicians, hopes their original song “Dance in Your Love” gets listeners up and dancing amid the pandemic. Third-year global jazz studies student Emily Silva, who the band is named after, wrote the original lyrics of “Dance in Your Love” after returning from a Fourth of July party in 2019. Read more...

Photo: Headed by third-year global jazz studies student Emily Silva, jazz band Silva will perform its original song “Dance in Your Love.” (Photo illustration by Anika Lillie Yazdi/Daily Bruin staff and Emily Dembinski/Illustrations director)

Spring Sing is having a digital renaissance. The annual music and performance competition will be hosted online for the second year in a row, but Spring Sing director and fourth-year Arabic and dance student Bella Stenvall said this doesn’t mean things will be the same. Read more...

Photo: (Emily Dembinski/Illustrations director)

This post was updated May 2 at 10:44 p.m. New research is building a recipe for uniting the senses. As a new addition to the Herb Alpert School of Music, the Practice-Based Experimental Epistemology Research Lab explores the realm of creative practice through an experiential and experimental lens. Read more...

Photo: (Emily Dembinski/Illustrations director)