After four jam-packed days of music from the biggest names in our scene and beyond, LOCKN’ Festival in Arrington, Virigina, has finally wrapped up and is in the books. While the festival’s main lineup was nothing short of amazing, LOCKN’ put together a special and exclusive “Super VIP” lineup for those decadent folks who were ready to drop a pretty penny and truly ball out for the weekend. On Friday and Saturday night, the “Super VIP” tent hosted DJ Logic to hold down the late-night, and those in attendance were treated to some very special cameos by some of the famed talent on hand at the festival.DJ Logic, Members of Disco Biscuits, Break Science, & New Mastersounds To Play Post-Phish Dick’sOn Saturday night, the Grateful Dead guitarist, Bob Weir, dropped in for DJ Logic’s set. In a new video provided by Diane Moudy, you can watch Bobby riff on the theme from “Franklin’s Tower” over the steady beats provided by DJ Logic. Check out the video for yourself below. DJ Logic will be on hand at this year’s Brooklyn Comes Alive, joined by Jack White drummer Daru Jones and Rolling Stone’s 2014 “Young Guns” contest winner Marcus Machado for a unique set of acid jazz. The 2017 Brooklyn Comes Alive lineup also features members of Umphrey’s McGee, moe., The Disco Biscuits, The String Cheese Incident, Trey Anastasio Band, and so many more. Iconic legends, such as John Scofield, George Porter Jr., Cyril Neville, DJ Premier, Johnny Vidacovich, and Henry Butler, will join members of nationally touring bands, such as GRAMMY-winners Snarky Puppy, The Meters, Primus, Soulive, Lettuce, The Motet, Lotus, Railroad Earth, The Infamous Stringdusters,Yonder Mountain String Band, The Russ Liquid Test, SunSquabi, Pendulum, Destroid, The Crystal Method, Midnight North, Aqueous, Kung Fu, Electric Beethoven, and more.***Tickets Are On Sale Now!***Inspired by the vibrant musical communities of Brooklyn and New Orleans, Brooklyn Comes Alive is now offering single day tickets, as well as a ticket payment plan for as low as $30/month. When checking out, just select “Monthly payments with Affirm” as your payment method. To find out more about ticketing, VIP options, and lodging, head to the festival website.Brooklyn Comes Alive Announces Supergroup Formations, Daily Lineups read more
Since its inception, the Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra (NDSO) has attracted students and faculty alike to perform.Devoted to music from the 18th to 20th centuries, the orchestra is an opportunity for any interested member of the University community to participate — regardless of major or occupation.Senior Michael Prough, a biochemistry major who plays the french horn, said NDSO is an accessible forum to display musical talents.“I joined the orchestra my freshman year because I had always wanted to play in an orchestra but didn’t have the opportunity in high school,” he said.Sophmore political science major and clarinetist John McCready also said NDSO provided opportunities his high school hadn’t.“My high school didn’t have a lot of music programs, so I sort of looked to the youth orchestra programs in my area, and I really enjoyed that, so I really wanted to continue with that in college,” McCready.Prough said the group not only provides a community for its members, but also provides them with fantastic experiences.“Being a part of the NDSO has been quite rewarding for me, and I’m looking forward to my last few performances with the group throughout this year,” Prough said.This Friday at 8 p.m., NDSO will take the stage at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center (DPAC) to perform the first of three shows this school year. The Halloween performance will feature works by Stravinsky and Beethoven, among others.“It’s a really cool, spooky-themed show,” McCready said. “… We’re doing the last movement of a five-movement piece about a witch. We’ve been preparing for this all year, thus far.”The group performs three concerts a year in DPAC and takes biennial tours off-campus.“We go [off campus] every other year, so we didn’t last year,” McCready said. “So this year, the plan is in January to start in Houston, Texas and work our way back up to campus … going to St. Louis and some other cities.”The tours have taken the orchestra all over the country in the past several years.“We’re going to some places I’ve never been to, so I’m really looking forward to it,” McCready said.Beyond their three standard shows and their tour, the orchestra works with vocal groups on campus.“In late November, I think we’ll be collaborating with more than one of the vocal ensembles … to do sort of a mass type thing, which should be cool,” McCready said.Tags: Club Feature, NDSO, Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra read more
Sáiz would end up accepting that one-year qualified offer in order to unblock the situation so that another club could negotiate with Estudiantes for his trade. Eventually, it was Real Madrid who paid the 100,000 euros clause to loan him out to another ACB team. Ever since, his career is being written in the present. In Burgos he earned the affection of the crowd as one of the protagonists of the team’s salvation. Between December and January, while the team went through one of its worst moments, Saiz did not go below double figures in points for six consecutive games, with a field goal percentage of 78% – 35/45 in field goals in those six games. Among his best performances, one stands out: his 19 points to Zaragoza with 9/9 FG to Zaragoza, the team that was about to sign him up upon his return to Spain. FROM THE WINTER COAT TO THE FLIP-FLOPS: PASSING THROUGH THE NATIONAL TEAM Last summer, once the loan to Burgos was over, Real Madrid looked for a new team in which Saiz could have more protagonism and while also gaining experience in European competitions. In that long list of candidates, the most convincing one for both the club and the player was Iberostar Tenerife, where Sebas found Burgos’ dry cold replaced by the warmth of the Canary Islands. And yet, the center is barely taking part in the team’s rotation in Liga Endesa, in which he has only overcome 10 minutes in three of its games. The reason? The team’s playing style clashes directly with his own. Iberostar Tenerife shoots more three pointers (a total of 622 at the end of February; 31 on average per game) than two-pointers (586 on the period; 29 per game). No other team in the ACB shoots more three-pointers – a record for which Saiz has only contributed with a 3/12 3P.With closer attention to the context, we realize that during his entire season in Burgos the center did not shoot a single three-pointer. Iberostar plays with highest pace in the league: they prioritize plays in transition and embrace this modern basketball tendency based on the use of three-pointers as the main offensive weapon. On the contrary, Saiz has the profile of a more traditional center, defense-inclined, whose low-post plays, despite his remarkable rebounding qualities, slow down the frenetic offenses of Tenerife. Even so, in the FIBA Basketball Champions League, (BCL), he has been able to demonstrate that he is a diamond in the rough in Spanish basketball. He is the only player, together with Amar’e Stoudemire, to average more than 10 points and 5 rebounds per game starting from the bench. The center has moreover achieved three double-doubles as a bench player (reserve), more than any other player this season – all that in an average of under 17 minutes. Following the culmination of the FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualifiers, there was a front court player for Spain who caught the imagination of fans. In the final window he grabbed 10 offensive rebounds in the game against Latvia – tying a record set by Pau Gasol, who achieved the same number in an exhibition game. As one of only two players to play every qualifying game for Spain, he was also the leading rebounder for the team across the campaign.At the age 24 he has already experienced a lot. Sebas Saiz has already been across the pond and back as a great sensation of Spanish basketball. He did not intend to play in the NBA, and neither has he returned as one of those players who seems unable to fit in such a different competition scheme. Sebas emigrated at seventeen and headed into the Sunrise Christian Academy, the high school in which we would win a sport scholarship for the University of Mississippi. https://images.daznservices.com/di/library/sporting_news/b5/e3/sebastian-saiz-spain-fiba_vpb08lml8jnk13q33dhsn3j9a.jpg?t=-1616115935&w=500&quality=80 The actor acknowledged having invited Sebas for dinner more than once, and joined the “sunglasses” movement for him. In 2016, the center suffered a severe ocular injury which forced him to play some games with glasses – Kareem’s style, but darker. That night, the more than 9,000 spectators that attended the game wore sunglasses and t-shirts with the slogan “I wear my sunglasses at night” to show their support to the Spanish player. His fame came not by chance. Sebas is the only player, alongside Murphy Holloway, to reach at least 1000 points, 1000 rebounds, and 100 blocks in Mississippi State. He finished his last year with an average of 15 points and 11.4 rebounds, and Bleacher Report even nominated him as “the best European of the season in the NCAA”. After his four years at university, Saiz return with a diploma in Business Management under his hand. But if there is a reason why we define his career as anomalous is because of the great challenge of coming back and finding a place in the Liga Endesa. He did so in Burgos, a small and quiet town whose basketball team’s only focus is on avoiding relegation rather than on individual egos. 🎓Bachelor of Business Administration ✅ pic.twitter.com/4sFC51rpzZ— sebastian saiz (@sebassaiz) August 4, 2017But, before Sáiz arrived into Burgos, he had to go through a big ordeal during the summer. According to the collective agreement of the Asociación de Balonestistas Profesionales (the Spanish Basketball Players Association, the ABP, given its initials in Spanish), Estudiantes (Sebas’ former club before going to the USA) could present a qualified offer to secure his player rights in Europe. A clause that in Spain is commonly known as preferential rights. However, when the club exerted its right and presented the offer, it counted five centers in its roster for the 2017-2018 season – Savané, Caner-Medley, Brown, Suton and Arteaga. The over supply of big men within the paint resulted into Sebas himself openly expressing that he did not want to be part of Estudiantes, given the impossibility to get quality minutes. “I would have loved to play with Edgar (Vicedo) and Darío (Brizuela), two of my best friends in the team, but as a sixth center you won’t travel even when you’re called up”, he explained to the Madrilenian media Pobla FM that summer. However, this is not a very common story in Spain. Or, at least, it was not. Now more and more male and female players are leaping into American universities and high schools in an attempt to continue with their academic formation while they also chase their dream to become professional players. Adrià Gasol tried it in UCLA and Domantas Sabonis left Unicaja Málaga to succeed as Gonzaga. Other Spaniards, such as Francis Alonso, are about to enter the jungle of professional basketball as they finish their university stage. In fact, Sebas is the first Spanish-born player to go to the NCAA and return to a Liga Endesa team in the last sixteen years – since Rafael Vidaurreta did it in 2003. There is another precedent, in Aitor Zubizarreta, whose case requires a long footnote, which unfortunately we will have to leave for another another article in order to focus now on Saiz. FROM MORGAN FREEMAN TO VALLADOLID In those four years in Ole Miss, Sebas Saiz became the local idol. It was not only because of his numbers, but also thanks to his capacity to connect with the fans that managed to do it. The intensity of his game, his fight for every single rebound and his magnetic personality arouse the admiration of even Morgan Freeman – a loyal Rebels supporter. https://images.daznservices.com/di/library/sporting_news/4b/7b/sebastian-saiz-morgan-freeman_xgzieun1vp0q1ggz4ljxxqt43.jpg?t=-1616239431&w=500&quality=80 Sebas has not only shined in the BCL. Sergio Scariolo has counted on him on an to play in the 2019 World Cup Qualifiers. He has been the only Spanish player alongside Quino Colom to play in all the games of the FIBA windows.The Spanish national team is slowly graduating from an incredible group of players. Sebas aspires to be one of the replacements for the best generation in Spanish basketball history. Scariolo has shown total confidence in him, and the player will fight for a place in the upcoming international competitions with the Gasol brothers, the Hernangómez brothers, Mirotic, Ibaka, and emerging talents such as Diop, Paulí, or Arteaga. This is big company for a player not previously considered for the national team. But as we have seen with his early career, his performances, particular in the BCL and during the FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualifiers – Sebas Saiz is not afraid of breaking the mould. https://images.daznservices.com/di/library/sporting_news/2e/ba/sebastian-saiz-tenerife-fiba_1cx43icm4lnuk13mwnrwxxbu30.jpg?t=-1615996319&w=500&quality=80 read more
The best BH athlete, Amel Tuka, is finishing the most successful season in his career with the final competition of the Diamond league in Brussels tonight.24-year-old Tuka, although he participated in only one race of the Diamond League, in Monaco in July, where he won with the best season result (1:42.51) theoretically still has chances to be a total winner of the most prestigious athlete competition in the discipline 800 meters.With the win in Monaco, Tuka won four points and took the fourth place in the overall standings, after the leader Nijel Amos from Botswana with 12 points. Second-placed David Rudisha from Kenia (6) and the third placed Hassan Suoleiman from Djibouti (5) will not perform in Brussels.If Tuka win tonight in Brussels and Amos is not among the first three, our athlete would win new four points which will be doubled since it is about the finals.12 athletes were registered for the race on 800 meters, and Tuka will have the biggest competitors in the Polish Kszczot, Ethiopian Aman, French Bosse and Morroccan Balhambelo.The race on 800 meters in Brussels is on program tonight at 8.56 p.m.(Source: faktor.ba) read more