November 4, 2013
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Student fiddles her way to success Mariah Gonzales Culture editor
A Linfield nursing major won first place at the Oregon State Old Time Fiddlers Competition for the last two years in the young adult division. Junior Tabitha Gholi has been playing the fiddle since the fifth grade and still enjoys it to this day. Gholi also plays other instruments such as the classical violin, viola and the mandolin. Gholi started getting into music in fourth grade when she began attending an after school curriculum called “The Strings Program.” A year later, her current fiddle teacher Eileen Walter performed at Gholi’s elementary school along with backup guitar and bass. “I was like oh my gosh, that is so cool. I want to do that,” Gholi said while reminiscing on her reaction of Walter’s performance. “So I called [Walter] up and I started taking private lessons for the fiddle.” Above all of her musical passions, Gholi’s favorite instrument to play is the fiddle. “It’s just my thing. It is so much fun,” Gholi said. “I really get into [fiddling]. It’s my genre.”
Gholi travels around the nation participating in other solo and group competitions, including the National Old Time Fiddlers Competition in Weiser, Idaho. Gholi placed seventh in the Young Adults division; along with these accomplishments she is active with the Linfield musical community. Gholi also participated in the Linfield College Concerto Competition and received the opportunity to perform a solo piece with the Linfield Chamber Orchestra as accompaniment. In 2012 Linfield alumna Jessie Goergen set up the band the Jessie Goergen Crew, Gholi currently fiddles for them. Gholi and Goergen often travel on the weekends to different bars and competition performances around Oregon. Gholi joined Goergan’s band beginning summer 2013 after she played with the band during the opening of the Macklemore concert during Wildstock in 2012. Gholi’s said that she hopes to make it into a nursing school in Nashville, Tenn., where she and the Jessie Goergen Crew plan to move to in attempt to “make it big,” as Gholi said. The band recently won the Oregon State Texaco Coun-
Photo courtesy of Tabitha Gholi Tabitha Gholi is a Linfield nursing major who is minoring in music. Her favorite instrument to play is the fiddle. Gholi participates in a variety group and solo competitions and also fiddles for The Jessie Goergen Crew. try Showdown. Their goal is to win the next stage of the competition, which would provide Gholi and the band
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the opportunity to travel to Nashville and compete other competitors from around the nation.
“Music makes me happy and I really like making music with different people,” Gholi said. “Music brings
everyone together, because it is a universal connection.” Mariah Gonzales can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com.
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Philosopher to discuss rare, unusual experiences Ryan Morgan Senior Reporter
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A professor of philosophy from the University of Memphis will discuss research into replicating the experiences astronauts have in space. Professor Shaun Gallagher will also discuss aesthetic, religious and spiritual experiences. In a lecture titled, “Exploring Inner Space in Outer Space,” Gallagher will discuss the results of a scientific study in which a research team used stimulation to replicate experiences of astronauts during space travel. Recording the results of the study, astronauts described deeply aesthetic,
spiritual or religious experiences of awe and wonder. Gallagher will also discuss his scientific approach to creating the desired experiences in a large number of subjects. The following evening, Gallagher will host another lecture, which will be geared more toward an academic audience. In this second lecture, Gallagher will speak about the unusual effects that people experience through perceptual contact with the world. The lecture is titled: “Making Enactivism Even More Embodied.” Gallagher’s areas of research include phenomenology and the cognitive sciences. Gallagher is not only the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Excellence in
Philosophy at the University of Memphis, he is also an honorary professor of philosophy at both Durham University in the United Kingdom and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. University of Copenhagen is the largest research institution in the country. Gallagher was awarded the Anneliese Maier Research Award in 2012, a five-year Humboldt Fellowship. The first lecture, “Exploring Inner Space in Outer Space,” is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7 in Jonasson Hall. “Making Enactivism Even More Embodied” is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Nov. 8 in Jonasson Hall. Ryan Morgan can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com.