The Costume Cover Show at Olde Club in Photos

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LOUD AND UNDERGROUND, a new music group on campus that centers queer/POC/women voices, presented the Costume Cover Show on February 10, 2017 at Olde Club. While the show centered these voices, it was not an exclusive event. As part of the theme, some performers dressed up as the artists whose songs they covered.

Photography by Brandon Torres ’18

Brandon Torres

Brandon is a current Education/English special major student, with hopeful plans to eventually share his passion for these subjects with both high school and middle school students. Though he dreams of publishing a novel one day, he spends a considerable amount of his time fantasizing about being a novelist rather than well, actually writing.

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