HUNTER COLLEGE–Where Hunter College Speaks radio station hosted their annual Battle of Bands on March 28.
Battle of the Bands, where local New York City music groups perform live music for the chance to win an award, came back for the second year in a row. The event featured a lineup of five bands: Pawn Promotion, Mother Cabrini, Attic Ivy, ABCDEFGH and Crippled Sound.
“Battle of the Bands has become an integral part of the station. It’s a perfect way for us to connect with the New York City music scene and showcase local talent that people might not be familiar with,” said Valerie Duran, the WHCS station manager.
Putting together the battle was no easy feat. David Horn, the station’s treasurer and member of the event’s production team, shared the challenges of securing equipment for the event.
“We don’t have a big budget, so I spent weeks finding missing pieces of instruments. For example, we had an incomplete drum kit and I borrowed the missing parts from the music department,” Horn said.
