It's possible that you're near the Underground, although the sounds are a little too dissonant, a little too offbeat to be satisfactory bar music. Your brow is furrowed in bafflement as the blindfold is wisked off, and you find yourself standing in front of the Production Workshop. Nicholas Noe '99, an organizer of the PW concerts, is determined to win the battle on both fronts. The concerts at the PW have been going on for some time now. Jeff Rosenberg, a recent Brown graduate, had organized shows before Noe and Bjorn Copland, a student at RISD, took over the task.
Shows occur sporadically, about three times a semester.
The next show is scheduled for March 31. Bringing bands to the space involves a network of connections that originated with Rosenberg, and continues with Noe and Copland who are slowly utilizing old connections and supplementing the pool with their own musical contacts. While management and organization duties may be shared between Brown and RISD students, this interaction does not effectively trickle down to the people who attend the shows. Noe estimated that 80 percent of concert-goers are usually RISD students with the other 20 percent filled in by locals from Providence and the surrounding areas, Brown students, and various other stragglers. Advertisement methods to attract Brown students have run the gamut.