“I’m just glad to be able to share my story,” said Darcell Trotter at the Omaha premiere on August 29, “if anybody could relate to anything to going on in there, it keeps me grounded.”
Everything about the artist known as Edem Soul Music is a reflection of her first-generation American experience. Twenty-eight-year-old Edem (Kegey) Garro was born to parents from the West African nation of Ghana.
Music is an inheritance and immersion she’s absorbed and expressed from early childhood to today.
This week’s warm weather may have inspired you to think about planting a garden, but you better act quickly. The date to start your seeds in pots is right around the corner, Mar. 10. NOISE has compiled a sample of local organizations who can teach you how to be part of the miracle of watching a seed turn into a vegetable.
Read MoreOften, discussion of African Americans in Nebraska defaults to North Omaha. After all, for generations, it’s where the vast majority of this demographic has resided. But a sizable contingent, a fraction of North Omaha’s, has called South Omaha home for more than a century.
Read MoreTake a deep dive with Ashley Salem as she discusses the layers, successes, and challenges of Disney Pixar’s “Soul”.
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Breakout success for 23-year-old Da’Dreion Murrell, who plays piano and drums, may not be far away. Music from his debut EP I Am Life is sampled in the new feature film Foster Boy that dramatizes the ills of the foster care system. “I feel sharing my story could help a lot of people here. A lot of them can relate to things I’ve lived through. “ – Leo Adam Biga