Born in southern Maryland, Ashley Virginia is a singer-songwriter who now calls the Piedmont Triad home. Her unique songwriting style coupled with her innovative harmonic structure gives her a distinctive...
Christa Dutton, Story Editor/The Magnolia
• April 29, 2024
At midnight on Jan. 15, 1812, in Salem, North Carolina, the sky is dark and the temperatures are dropping. A snowstorm had swept through town just a few days before. In the stillness, hymns pierce through...
Ella Klein, Visual Director/The Magnolia
• April 29, 2024
I don’t remember going to my first concert. By the time I was 9 years old, I’d gone to countless house shows and music venues. I saw the Smashing Pumpkins live and grew a lasting affinity for the White...
It’s 1973 in Harbin, China. Meimei Wan stood beside her music teacher's harmonium, feeling the ebbs and flows of the wind sent by foot-operated bellows. Something stirred in the 8-year-old girl's heart,...
On a Wednesday evening in April 2019, T-Pain took the stage in front of an electric crowd at LJVM Coliseum for Wake Forest’s annual spring concert. He performed his signature hits, including “I’m...
Cooper Sullivan, Executive Editor/The Magnolia
• April 29, 2024
Class has been dismissed for almost half an hour, but a handful of students are still sticking around. They stand at the front of the Carswell classroom blocking one of the doors as they pepper their professor...
Birds chirp in the light breeze of a bright afternoon. Coveted spring weather knocks on Thursday’s door. While students head to their final classes of the day, junior Alyssa Zaepfel’s day isn’t over.
She...
Alexander Lloyd Blake kept reminding his ensemble choir Tonality (and mostly himself), that it was an honor to even be nominated for a Grammy. The group was nominated for Best New Age, Ambient or Chant...
Just behind Kentner Stadium is a corner of campus that few students venture to regularly. Each weekday, environmental program students and anthropology majors spill out of their department’s respective...
Wake Forest alumna Mankaprr Conteh (‘17) is a staff writer at Rolling Stone, where she mostly covers hip-hop, R&B, African pop music, and occasionally comedians. After receiving a Bachelor's degree...
