Success Stories

The annual Warped Tour is taking shape and MI is offering student/grad bands a unique opportunity to battle it out to join the tour. Here’s how it works:

• Metal, punk, rock, rap/rock or alt. rock genres only
• Bands must include at least 50% current or former MI students
• Make 5 CD copies of your two best original songs and drop them off at MI’s Artist and Career Services Department (ACS) located at Hawthorn & McCadden (across from the m .......

On Tuesday, May 27, New Orleans guitarist Phil DeGruy returns to GIT with his unique 17-string Guitarp for an afternoon open counseling session demonstrating his virtuoso solo performance skills. DeGruy recently released a new CD, Just Duet, on which he performs with guitar luminaries including Larry Coryell, Charlie Hunter, Mike Stern, Hank Mackie, Reeves Gabrels, Steve Masakowski, and David Tronzo.Steve Vai, no stranger to the outer orbits of guitar performance, said of DeGruy, "Phil's approach to the guitar sounds like John Coltrane meets Mel Brooks at a party for Salvador Dali. It's uncanny the way he has conjured up such an unorthodox way to attend to virtuosity."