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Indiana State University's Community School of the Arts (CSA) will wrap up its spring semester with five end of the year music events.

On Friday, April 26 at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 28 at 2:30 p.m., the CSA will host its end-of-the-semester music recitals in the Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts, Recital Hall.

Guitar Club students, instructed by Tim Doyle, will perform at the Swope Art Museum Friday, May 3 at 6:30 p.m., in conjunction with First Friday downtown activities. Doyle is a graduate student majoring in guitar performance in the School of Music at Indiana State. He received his bachelor's degree in guitar performance with a focus in jazz from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2002. For eight years, he resided in Austin, TX working as a guitar teacher and performing as a soloist and with many Latin/jazz ensembles.

Students of the CSA and Kara Claybrook will present voice recitals in the Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts, Recital Hall at 5 p.m. Sunday, May 5. Claybrook, a soprano, is a native of Terre Haute. An experienced teacher, she is a member of the teaching staff at Indiana State University's School of Music as well as the CSA, where she offers vocal instruction to community members of all ages.

In collaboration with the Children's Museum, the CSA will feature performances by private and class students on Saturday May 11 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. May's theme at the Museum is mystery. During the event, entitled "Musical Mystery Mania!", the audience is invited to interact with performers by guessing songs and participating in a sing-a-long.

The Community School of the Arts is one of the new programs at Indiana State funded through the Unbounded Possibilities initiative. The CSA provides hands-on arts learning experiences for children, youth, and adults in the Wabash Valley while providing ISU students who are majoring in the arts outstanding opportunities for experiential learning through teaching.

Admission to all music events is free. For additional information contact Petra Nyendick at 812-237-2575 or Petra.Nyendick@indstate.edu . 

Contact: Petra Nyendick, director of Community School of the Arts, Indiana State University, 812-237-2575, Petra.Nyendick@indstate.edu

 Writer: Ebonie Lamb, arts marketing intern, Office of Communications and Marketing, Indiana State University, elamb1@sycamores.indstate.edu