Five rising indie and alternative artists took the stage at Montclair State University for the inaugural First Mountain Music Festival at Memorial Auditorium on February 13th. The lineup included Marauder, Alessandra Foti, Roe Knows Best, Ellie Beder, and Alexa Tabbacchino performing original music and tracks from their upcoming releases in a fully student-produced concert event.<\/p>\n
Students ran everything – audio engineering, video production, stage design, lighting, and live event management. Seven university programs collaborated to deliver a professional concert experience while gaining real-world skills in an industry that is actively hiring.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are seeing significant growth in the live event production careers, and this festival gives our students real experience in an industry that\u2019s actively hiring.\u201d said David Sanders, professor in the College of Communication and Media<\/a> and the College of the Arts<\/a>. \u201cBy bringing together audio, video, stage management, and broadcast teams, we are preparing Montclair students for the collaborative work they\u2019ll do professionally.\u201d<\/p>\n Students from Concert Production, Intro to Music Production – Broadcast Music Production, Television Production Company, and Theater Production classes handled all technical and creative aspects of the event and worked alongside the Theatre and Dance Department<\/a> on ticketing stage management and front of house operations, WMSC-FM<\/a> and Hawk +<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Five Indie Artists Performed at Montclair State University on February 13th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":211287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211288,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211286\/revisions\/211288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}