Natalie Merchant News

Other members of the sextet were Robert Buck , Steven Gustafson , Dennis Drew , and Jerry Augustyniak .

They first met at Time Warp, the vintage clothing store on Augusta Road that Anne Merchant owned and where art & light gallery owner Teresa Roche shopped.

Bob Karlovits can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7852. Congolese singer and guitarist Lokua Kanza on Saturday will bring his form of Afro-pop music to the Byham Theater, Downtown.

At SUNY New Paltz, under a cloudy sky on Sunday, more than 900 undergraduate students participated in the college's commencement ceremony.

NEW PALTZ - SUNY New Paltz students this morning will take a last walk on the campus - to commencement.

It's now a rare occurrence when 10,000 Maniacs does a tour - even more since the band has undergone another recent change in lead singer.

Oregon is about to make a little bit of history. The semifinals of Poetry Out Loud , a national recitation contest presented by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, is going on today in Washington, with high school students from the various states and territories competing for a $20,000 top prize.

Singer Natalie Merchant will get an honorary doctorate in music during the SUNY New Paltz graduation ceremony May 17.