Connie Shakalis

Let’s say you were a really smart kid whose (foreign service) parents gave you books but also a guitar. You liked all kinds of music but grew to revere metal. In fact when you grow up you will found two New York City heavy metal bands, Florid Ekstasis and Aphelion Entity. In 2025 you will also get your “dream job” teaching music theory for popular music at a world class music school, Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. Your name is Calder Hannan.

Connie Shakalis For the Herald-Times April 24, 2026, 5:06 a.m. ET

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is often called "the greatest of all symphonies."

Connie Shakalis | For the Herald-Times As the music gushes May 16 at Indiana University's Musical Arts Center (MAC), the audience

Local theater in Bloomington continues to surge. Here’s some of what theatergoers will find this spring into summer. Inside and out, from Shakespeare to a PB&J Café, there’s enough to keep audiences exploring.

A trail of sniffing and snooping: a “garden walk” is a series of home — and other — landscapes the owners of which open their gardens.

Each show features Five for Fighting and McCain interchanging closing sets. They’re coming to Brown County Music Center June 9.

The band has sold more than 7 million albums and continues to pull in live-music fans by the tens of thousands.

Connie Shakalis For the Herald-Times June 19, 2026, 5:05 a.m. ET

An array of music is provided for free by Indiana University Jacobs School of Music this summer.