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	<description>The latest news from “the Big Cheese” - Executive Director Bau Graves.</description>
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		<title>What Is Square Roots?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On July 20, 21 &#38; 22, Old Town School of Folk Music is teaming up with the Lincoln Square Chamber of Commerce to produce Square Roots – a festival celebrating handmade music, craft beers, global dance, local food and our own neighborhood community. It will include three days of performances on both indoor and outdoor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldtownschool.org/connect/blaug/2012/04/02/what-is-square-roots/</link>
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		<title>Bau&#8217;s Remarks at Grand Opening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Medley: Drive Dull Care Away, Home on the Range, Billy in the Lowground, Bound for Glory, Down by the Riverside. Performed by Typhanie Monique, Mark Dvorak, Paul Tyler, Maria McCullough, Gail Tyler, Lanialoha Lee, Ronnie Malley, Yahvi Pichardo, Bill Brickey and Bau Graves. Bau: Thank you for helping us test the acoustics! And thank you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldtownschool.org/connect/blaug/2012/01/09/baus-remarks-at-grand-opening/</link>
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		<title>Bau&#8217;s X-Mas Song 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sung to the tune of &#8220;A Modern Major General&#8221; &#8212; with apologies to Gilbert &#38; Sullivan 1A. Please lend to me your ears because I am not being cynical, This school employs musicians who’ve ascended to the pinnacle. They know their scales up and down and play a mean arpeggio, And tap their feet in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldtownschool.org/connect/blaug/2011/12/20/baus-x-mas-song-2011/</link>
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		<title>Good News and Bad News for Teaching Artists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A team of researchers at the University of Chicago has released a groundbreaking report on the status of American arts education, particularly concerning the status of teaching artists. The most comprehensive study of its kind, the Teaching Artists and the Future of Education (available at www.norc.org), offers a wealth of insight into the troubled state [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldtownschool.org/connect/blaug/2011/10/24/good-news-and-bad-news-for-teaching-artists/</link>
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		<title>Ten Million Thanks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, during a remarkable meeting of Old Town School’s Board of Directors, the capital campaign for our new facility passed the $10 million threshold. As I look out my office window, the last of the siding is going up on the construction site and the masons have begun work on the brick façade. Completion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldtownschool.org/connect/blaug/2011/07/26/ten-million-thanks/</link>
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		<title>Peace and Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is there a direct connection between music-making and peace-making? It’s obvious that certain songs can and do play a significant role in shaping historic change – can we imagine a Civil Rights Movement without &#8220;We Shall Overcome,&#8221; or an Anti-War Movement without &#8220;Give Peace a Chance?&#8221; You may have noticed what many of the people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldtownschool.org/connect/blaug/2011/04/21/peace-and-music/</link>
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		<title>What You See Is What You Get</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s a whole note. It’s forte. It’s a guitar’s sound hole, the head of a drum, the bell of a horn. It’s the graceful F-hole in all the members of the violin family, plus lots of mandolins, Dobros and arch-top guitars. It’s yin and yang, push and pull, old and new. It’s the globe spinning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldtownschool.org/connect/blaug/2011/04/06/what-you-see-is-what-you-get/</link>
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		<title>Mojo Insurance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On November 11 and 16, 2010, a total of 60 cement mixers delivered 1400 tons of concrete to pour the foundation of Old Town School’s new building. The cement is three feet thick and is held together by 70 tons or steel rebar. In keeping with longstanding folk tradition, and to keep our collective mojo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldtownschool.org/connect/blaug/2010/11/16/mojo-insurance/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Reasons to Give to the Capital Campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[10. THE OLD TOWN SCHOOL IS A TRULY UNIQUE INSTITUTION. Every major city has an orchestra, an opera house, a zoo, and an art museum. No other city in the world has anything comparable to the size, scope, and soul of the Old Town School of Folk Music. 9. CONTRIBUTIONS ARE TAX-DEDUCTIBLE. Keep your money [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldtownschool.org/connect/blaug/2010/10/22/top-10-reasons-to-give-to-the-capital-campaign/</link>
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		<title>And So It Begins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August 5 marks an important milestone in the history of Old Town School:  in a simple ceremony with hard hats, shovels, and lots of music (of course), we broke ground on construction of a new facility.  In a year, there’ll be a new building in Lincoln Square. This is a milestone because it propels our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldtownschool.org/connect/blaug/2010/08/06/and-so-it-begins/</link>
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