Open mic night showcases new musicians

Video posted May 16, 2015 in News by Shuyao Chen


Steve Winston walked away from a career in advertising when he was 31 to follow his dream of being a musician.

Now he performs solo and plays bass for Los Blancos, a jazz band based in Syracuse, N.Y. He is passing on his love for music by giving other performers a venue to begin their careers by hosting Open Mic Night at  Shifty‘s, the Syracuse pub where he first started to solo.

(This video was produced for the 2015 Multimedia Immersion workshop hosted by the National Press Photographers Association.)

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Shuyao Chen is a senior at Penn State majoring in photojournalism. She is currently a photographer for Onward State, an independent student news website. She also is the Penn State football correspondent for Sports Illustrated Campus Rush. In 2015, she participated in the Online News Association’s Student Newsroom in Los Angeles. Shuyao, from Wenzhou, China, is genuinely curious about the world and passionate about visual storytelling. Her hobbies include playing the piano and singing Italian operas. You can reach her at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).