Despite a recent article in the Daily Gazette suggesting that the Large Scale Event for the Fall semester will be popular hip hop/soul group “The Roots,” there is at present no official word as to the validity of this sentiment.
Currently, neither their record label (Def Jam Recordings) nor The Roots’ MySpace list any appearance at Swarthmore College on the group’s tour schedule. However, a Google cache made of their MySpace as of 10:34 a.m. GMT on Oct. 2 lists as a tour stop “Swarthmore College” on November 3. This statement is now absent from the site, leaving its present credibility questionable.
Assistant student activities coordinator Paury Flowers emphasized that in no way is the school currently entered into a contract with any group to provide entertainment as part of an LSE. “No contract has been signed and no [opening act] contract has been signed,” Flowers said. “Announcing [anything we have planned] at this stage is going to affect our experience … Until a contract is signed, there’s no way we have a show.” As of yet, according to Flowers, nothing for the LSE has been confirmed.
Def Jam Recordings did not respond to several requests for comment regarding further information on the tour engagements of “The Roots.”
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