Slope Day Programming Board Broadcasts COIN as 2023 Headliner
The Slope Day Programming Board introduced as we speak that the indie-rock group COIN will probably be this yr’s headliner, with EDM duo Snakehips and hip-hop duo Coco & Clair Clair additionally performing on the occasion.
Slope Day will probably be held on Might 10, with this yr marking the second in-person live performance because the COVID-19 pandemic.
The SDPB launched a survey in late October to solicit pupil opinions on artists and music genres they want to see at Slope Day. Margot Baker ’25, SDPB’s artist choice and relations director, mentioned the survey outcomes largely knowledgeable the choice course of.
“We selected the headliner primarily based on the outcomes of our artist survey, wanting on the genres and performers that obtained essentially the most pupil votes,” Baker wrote in a press release to The Solar. “Based on the outcomes, 65.2 p.c of survey contributors mentioned their ideally suited style for a headliner could be pop, and COIN ended up very excessive on the survey.”
Although the group takes pupil preferences into consideration, different elements — together with budgeting — place limitations on performers that SDPB can realistically rent.
“Slope Day is just not funded by the College, however the College does help the occasion in relation to workers {and professional} bandwidth,” wrote Triff H’Doubler ’23, co-executive director of SDPB, in a press release to The Solar. “We should allocate a small portion [less than 50 percent] of our finances from the Scholar Meeting to the artist finances and work with that. We solely had lower than $100,000 to work with for expertise and even requested Cornell Live performance Fee for further funds to assist with the expertise portion.”
Baker added that a lot of the SDPB’s finances funds security measures — akin to first responders — along with safety, perimeter fencing, moveable restroom amenities, normal logistics and different bills.
Many Cornellians had been eagerly awaiting the line-up announcement. Following as we speak’s reveal, some college students expressed pleasure for this yr’s artists, regardless of their lack of familiarity with the performers.
“I really feel excited as a result of I don’t know who these persons are — I’m very curious… who’re these individuals? What do they do?” mentioned Samuel Iradukunda ’26.
Ethan Abbate ’24 expressed an identical sentiment, noting his pleasure to discover new music regardless of not being accustomed to this yr’s artists.
“I’m an enormous advocate of turning into a bandwagon fan in anticipation of a live performance, so I’m right down to have a great time,” Abbate mentioned.
Different Cornellians, nevertheless, expressed disappointment at this yr’s line-up — a sentiment that many college students, together with Isabel Hou ’24, famous after final yr’s artist announcement as properly.
“How did [the SDPB] accomplish that badly two years in a row?” Hou mentioned.
Baker famous the negativity that the SDPB typically faces from college students, including that she herself as soon as held among the misconceptions that many Cornellians have in regards to the artist choice course of earlier than she joined the SDPB.
“Essentially the most difficult a part of being a SDPB pupil chief and selecting performers is seeing the false info different college students unfold in regards to the finances,” Baker wrote. “I had related misconceptions earlier than turning into a part of the SDPB. College students have a chance to be a part of the method and study firsthand how the group is run by turning into a SDPB member.”
Along with the primary live performance on the slope, different Slope Day occasions will embody Slope Fest, an occasion on Ho Plaza that may embody free meals, drinks, video games and pupil performances, and Various Slope Day, by way of which college students will be capable of take part in a ropes course and different actions off campus. Cornell Well being may also be internet hosting Slope BreakFEST, throughout which they’ll distribute free sandwiches, fruit and water in entrance of the Schwartz Heart for the Performing Arts, from 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Although the artist line-up has been confirmed, SDPB continues to be working to organize for this yr’s occasion.
“I’ve been working carefully with workers from totally different departments throughout campus, together with the sustainability workplace and CUEMS, to raised perceive occasion day logistics and guarantee issues go as easily as doable,” wrote Riya Agarwal ’25, SDPB volunteer director, in a press release to The Solar. “We’ve spent plenty of time speaking about earlier occasions and suggestions to know how we will simplify and higher our volunteer course of, together with every little thing from recruitment to coaching to incentivization.”
Whatever the artists performing, college students like Merciel Tao ’26 expressed pleasure for collaborating on this Cornell custom.
“I’m so excited for my first Slope Day,” Tao mentioned. “I’ve heard so many nice issues about this custom, and it’s superior that Cornell values its pupil group a lot that they plan and host high-profile artists yearly.”
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