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May 1, 2007 by: Eve Abrams

Seven year old Dinerral Shavers walks onto the stage of the Sound Café with a snare drum strapped to his chest. It’s past 6:30 on a Wednesday evening, the hour of the café’s weekly Youth Music Clinic. Neva Joseph, a music education major at Loyola University, instructs Shavers to “listen to the song and try to put a beat to it.” And he does. Moments later, Shavers plays the head, the rim, and the side of his dr...

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