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<title>Christopher Battles: out of the classroom, into the night life</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Nov 14, 2012) Over the last few months, singer/songwriter Christopher Battles has shared his musical journey via audio postcards.  The twenty-something is hoping to make his mark as an acoustic musician in New York City.  We&apos;ve heard occasional stories of his new life — the pressures, emotional highs and lows and what it&apos;s like for an upstate troubadour in the big city.Battles grew up in Oswego, graduated from the Crane School of Music and now lives in Brooklyn. He studied percussion and music education at Crane.  Recently, he took us into the classroom as a substitute teacher.  In this next segment, he says sometimes life is an endless stream of teaching at a variety of schools around the city, takeout for dinner and then off to a gig at an &quot;open mic night&quot; or coffee house. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20883/20121114/christopher-battles-out-of-the-classroom-into-the-night-life">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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