How hard is it to get five college students together in the same room at the same time for band practice? Extremely, according to the members of Potential Novelty.  Tonight, buried deep within the Orchestra room inside the Goshen College Music Center, all five members have managed to get together and rehearse. Potential Novelty is a band started at GC by juniors Meredith Blossom and Jocsan Barahona Rosales, sophomores Dontaye Albert and Fatima Rhana and freshman Matthew Dyck.  “If we say a time, we actually mean 20 minutes later,” Rhana says. “Unless it’s a performance that’s upcoming,” Albert adds, sitting...

By Dante Stanton • March 16, 2023 • Features

GoDance Studio in downtown Goshen was buzzing last Friday night with people swarming around a show put on by Brides of Neptune and BEE! Both bands are based in Goshen, but BEE! includes Evan Judson on the keyboard and trumpet, GC alumni Evan Krabill (‘21) as lead vocalist and guitarist and current GC seniors Birch Baer on drums and Isaac Fisher on bass guitar.  The group got its start in 2021 as a way for some of the members to make music together. “We took the first letter from each of our names [at that point] to create the name...

By Sarah Miller • February 2, 2023 • Arts