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The Bluegrass Club is dedicated to fostering a vibrant musical community by bringing together students passionate about bluegrass music. Our mission is to provide regular rehearsal opportunities, instrumental lessons, and essential funding for instruments and repairs to celebrate traditional bluegrass heritage.

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Members of the Bluegrass and Traditional Music Group will have access to instructional lessons on traditional bluegrass instruments, including banjo, mandolin, and harmonica, along with opportunities to practice and perform collaboratively in small ensemble settings.

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Case in Point (CiP), founded in 2001, is Case Western Reserve University's premiere co-ed a cappella group.\
In the tradition of a cappella music, every sound you hear is produced solely by the human voice (and hands). Additionally, every song we perform is arranged by a current or former member of the group.\
While the faces of Case in Point change over the years, we continue to bring you exciting new a cappella arrangements of a wide variety of music.\
CiP performs at numerous events on and off the CWRU campus. To contact us for your event, please use our contact email listed on this page.\
If you'd like to stay up-to-date with info about auditions, performances, and concerts, visit our Instagram or Facebook pages.

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Making great vocal music with great people, developing your singing skills, and having opportunities to perform at various events around CWRU and the Cleveland area!

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Open to all genres and skill levels, Case Sound Society is CWRU's community for music producers.

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A community of music producers.

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The CWRU Chamber Collective was founded to provide students with the opportunity to make music in ensembles with other dedicated musicians in various wind ensembles, while also giving students interested in conducting the opportunity to do so while at CWRU.

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Members will have the opportunity to play in various chamber ensembles in a student-led setting. The CWRU Chamber Collective provides opportunities to participate in a clarinet choir as well as a brass ensemble. Additionally, the small chamber ensembles program allows students to participate in small chamber settings with lower stakes than a class.

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The CWRU Music Therapy Club was founded to provide music therapy to patients and their families at various clinical facilities in the University Circle area, while simultaneously affording undergraduate musicians at CWRU performance opportunities intended specifically to improve the wellbeing of those in need in clinical settings.

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Gain community service hours and valuable interpersonal interactions with patients by joining Music Therapy Club! Members get the opportunity to perform at University Hospitals and retirement/nursing homes! We also organize events and connect members with other service opportunities that promote music therapy in Cleveland and beyond. Consider joining to learn more about what it's like to be a music therapist!

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The Department of Music at Case Western Reserve University is committed to fostering an inclusive, supportive environment that promotes creativity, innovation, and academic excellence. Guided by the highest standards of accreditation, its mission is to advance research and creative work, provide a strong liberal arts–based music curriculum within the Joint Music Program, and prepare students as scholar-practitioners and leaders in music education, musicology, and historical performance practice. The department also values service, open communication, and shared governance within the university and broader academic community.

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Discover the richness of our music community and join us in celebrating the art, scholarship, and creativity that define the Department of Music!

If you are a community member or guest without a CWRU Network ID, you can still sign up and register for public events.

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Dhamakapella is Case Western Reserve University's competitive South Asian fusion a cappella group. We perform original arrangements that fuse Western artists, South Asian film and Indian classical music, and genres such as pop, R&B, trap, and dubstep. Since our inception in 2005, we have recorded and produced eight studio albums. Not only does Dhamaka perform at various on and off campus events, but we also compete throughout the country in both the South Asian fusion and ICCA circuits and have won 27 national titles. In 2022, 2023 and 2024, Dhamakapella won first place at the national South Asian fusion a cappella championship, All-American Awaaz. Our group is composed of students from a wide spread of musical backgrounds, ranging from shower singers to those with classical Indian and Western vocal training. We are united by our love for music and are always excited to recruit new talent, perfect our sound, and share our passion with our listeners!

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Enjoy singing and competing with us no matter what your musical background is!

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The Music Graduate Student Association works to provide sustained support for current and prospective graduate students in the Department of Music at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in all aspects of graduate life. We foster intellectual and professional development through sponsorship of academic events and discussion, and promote fellowship among the graduate students through social events and moral support. We also encourage prospective students to join the program by coordinating campus visits and compiling informative materials about the program. One of our principal goals is that of fostering communication between our graduate student body, the Music Department's staff and faculty, and the campus community as a whole.

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Members will be a part of the organization's goals of advocacy and mutual support, as well as participate in planning the organization's events, including student gatherings and the Graduate Student Conference, an every-other-year opportunity for graduate students to present their research. Members will also play a role in shaping MGSA's efforts for intra-area collaboration between Musicology, Historical Performance Practice, and Music Education.

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The purpose of the Music Undergraduate Student Involvement Committee (MUSIC) is to promote and facilitate various musical collaborations, performances, and experiences across campus among music majors, non-majors, faculty, and the general public. The Music Undergraduate Student Involvement Committee strives to extrapolate the unseen talent on campus and promote awareness of these musicians. In addition to organizing music-related events throughout each semester we also seek and provide opportunities for students to perform on campus and throughout the community. Furthermore, we help connect music students to the professional world.

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Students will have access to information and events hosted by M.U.S.I.C.

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The mission for Naadam is to create an established space where students who learn and appreciate Indian Classical Music can express their cultural heritage. We want to spread awareness of Indian culture and foster an understanding of Indian Classical Music among the Case Western Reserve University community.

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Members will be able to practice weekly and/or enjoy Carnatic and Hindustani forms of Indian Classical Music within a close-knit community. Additionally, we host performances open to anyone and are also asked to perform for various events in the CWRU community. Join us to learn more about Indian Classical Music share your passion with kindred spirits in a warm, welcoming environment!

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We are the official Case Western Reserve University Pep Band, a student group devoted to playing music and spreading spirit at events around campus, including basketball and hockey games and other community events. Anyone is welcome - just bring your instrument, come join the fun, and help support our Spartans!

If you've got some time, feel free to stop by any of our rehearsals. We'll take any instrument, tuba to slide whistle. Our practice times have yet to be determined, but we generally rehearse once a week before a performance for an hour. Stop on by just to say hi or bring an instrument and play along. We'd love to have you with us!

For any questions or comments, contact the exec board at pepbandexec@case.edu

Membership Benefits
Being a part of a student group devoted to playing music and spreading spirit at events around campus. Anyone is welcome - just bring your instrument, come join the fun, and help support our Spartans! Pep Band is a great opportunity to keep up with an instrument with a low time commitment while hanging out with friends.

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Solstice is Case Western Reserve University's all treble a capella group. Founded in the fall of 2003, we dedicate ourselves to providing students with the opportunity to learn, perform, and grow through a capella. We have a diverse musical repertoire which includes pop, light rock, alternative, and anything else that strikes our fancy. We perform at campus events, open for fellow CWRU music groups, hold fall and spring concerts, and do a variety of other performances on and off campus. For updates, check out our instagram page!

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As a member of Solstice, you get to sing music and perfect your vocal and beatboxing skills while performing at events around campus and hanging out with an awesome group!

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To provide CWRU students the opportunity to participate in and learn from unique musical experiences with steel drums.

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Gives the opportunity for students to play and listen to steel drums.