SCAD celebrates alumni with concert
Written by Amy Stoltenberg
Photos courtesy of SCAD PR
The line-up for this year’s SCAD alumni concert has been released. The acts will include folk singer Brett Dennen, indie rock band Mutemath, and alternative country band Lucero.
Sing-songwriter Brett Dennan’s song “Comeback Kid (That’s My Dog)” is the theme song on the NBC comedy “About a Boy.”
Every year, the concert honors new alumni and their achievements at SCAD. It is meant to be a time for the entire community to gather and celebrate the new graduates, and for the the graduates to come together one last time to welcome in the future.
Brett Dennan, a singer-songwriter from Northern California, is known for his surfer-style folk tunes.
As for Lucero, the vibe is a little less beachcomber, and a lot more dirt streets and back roads. Hailing from Memphis, Tennesee, they are a combination of rock, soul and down-home country.
Grammy-nominated Mutemath is probably the most well-known out of the three acts.
“They tend to have a bit more rooted fan base than any of the other bands,” said SCAD Radio DJ Carson Rennekamp, a third-year sound design major from Corvallis, Oregon. “They have a cool, indie alternative sound. I’d say their main audience is probably people who are into that emo, indie thing. If you like Panic! At the Disco, you might like them. They kind of have that garage band feel, in the older style, like All American Rejects type of stuff.”
Emmy-nominated band Mutemath is one of the bands scheduled to perform at the alumni concert.
In spite of Mutemath’s relative popularity, Chris Turpin, a fourth-year graphic design major and the program director at SCAD Radio, was less than thrilled with the line-up was announced because of the overall anonymity of the bands.
“I’d rather sit at home than go to the show,” said Turpin. “I think the fact that SCAD signed them for a graduation concert—for people who have spent so much time and money at SCAD—is embarrassing, and that whoever booked them is severely out of touch, not only with music, but the student body.”
Holly Elliot, the public relations coordinator for SCAD, intended for the bands to be a part of the exciting atmosphere of the graduating class of 2014.
“We bring bands that embody the celebratory spirit of commencement, a milestone in our student’s academic careers,” wrote Elliot.
Regardless of the nature of the bands chosen, some things are guaranteed: there will be music, a wide, grassy lawn and Savannah’s Spanish moss-hung trees swaying to the beat of summer tunes.
The concert is free and open to the community and will be held in the Forsyth Park band shell on Friday May 30 at 6 p.m.
