{"id":3352,"date":"2017-11-06T20:49:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T20:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/wordpress\/lavie\/?p=3352"},"modified":"2017-11-06T20:49:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T20:49:16","slug":"music-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2017\/11\/06\/music-in-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Music in the making"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\"><p><span>By: Taylor Kleeschulte &#8217;18, Staff Writer<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For two&nbsp;Lebanon Valley College student-athletes,&nbsp;music plays a huge role in&nbsp;their lives on top of pursuing&nbsp;their&nbsp;college degrees.&nbsp;<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span>Samantha Machin, a junior early childhood education major,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Tyler Skye, a senior audio and music production&nbsp;major,&nbsp;have&nbsp;been performing together for months at various LVC events.<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Together,&nbsp;Skye and Machin make&nbsp;the&nbsp;perfect duo&nbsp;and have&nbsp;performed&nbsp;at&nbsp;ValleyFest,&nbsp;VALE&nbsp;music&nbsp;events&nbsp;and&nbsp;MJ\u2019s Coffeehouse.&nbsp;<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span>Although the duo has only performed at the coffeehouse once,&nbsp;they really enjoyed it and hope that more people come out and enjoy it the next time they perform there.&nbsp;<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span>\u201cIt&#8217;s a great and relaxed place to just make music,\u201d&nbsp;Machin&nbsp;said.&nbsp;<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span>Both Skye and Machin&nbsp;value the support that LVC and the student body gives to each of them for their musical talents.&nbsp;<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span>\u201cIt&#8217;s good to get back out there in the community performing with other students here&nbsp;at LVC,\u201d Skye said.&nbsp;<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span>Because&nbsp;Machin\u2019s major is not music related, it would have been&nbsp;very easy for her to put her passion on the back burner&nbsp;but&nbsp;instead,&nbsp;she uses LVC&#8217;s musical platform&nbsp;as a way to&nbsp;improve.&nbsp;<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span>\u201cIt\u2019s impacted me because I&#8217;ve been able to grow musically by performing in front of more people,\u201d Machin said.&nbsp;<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span>Machin&nbsp;grew the confidence to&nbsp;pursue&nbsp;her singing at the age of 13.&nbsp;She&nbsp;loves working with other band members and bouncing ideas off one other.&nbsp;<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span>\u201cI find it very fun to just jam and have a good time with others,\u201d Machin said.&nbsp;<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span>Skye&nbsp;began&nbsp;pursuing&nbsp;music at the age of&nbsp;13 because of the musical program within his middle school. Skye finds his passion in&nbsp;playing&nbsp;guitar and producing.<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span>\u201cMy favorite part about performing is being able to have fun and enjoy the music I work with,\u201d Skye said.&nbsp;<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span>Machin and Skye look forward to their next performance together.<\/p>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By: Taylor Kleeschulte &#8217;18, Staff Writer For two&nbsp;Lebanon Valley College student-athletes,&nbsp;music plays a huge role in&nbsp;their lives on top of pursuing&nbsp;their&nbsp;college degrees.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Samantha Machin, a junior early childhood education major,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Tyler Skye, a senior audio and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2017\/11\/06\/music-in-the-making\/\" title=\"Music in the making\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"category-local-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}