The Narrator, Daedalus, The City on Film, and Kind of Like Spitting may sound like the names of postmodern movies, but they're actually a few of the more than forty indie bands that performed at Kenyon's Horn Gallery in 2005-06, thanks to the efforts of rock impresario Andrew Irvin, Class of 2008.

He threw himself into the music scene when he got here. "But," says Irvin, a dance major from Granville, Ohio, "I knew we could do better."

To amp up the music scene at Kenyon, Irvin called on band contacts he'd been developing since high school. By working his connections in the concert and recording industries, he has signed an astonishing number of bands to play the Horn, a student-run arts space.

Irvin's professionalism in dealing with bands and booking agents has already brought him a job offer from Saddle Creek, an independent record label based in Omaha, Nebraska. He held an internship in sales and retail at Flame Shovel, a Chicago label, the summer following his first year at Kenyon.

In a busy week, Irvin books two to three concerts into the Horn. His biggest coup so far, signing Tilly and the Wall to play Gambier in May 2005, required a larger venue. "There were about two hundred fifty people out on Ransom Lawn for that," he recalls.

To promote Kenyon student bands, Irvin has started an independent label, Horn Records, using the recording studio of the campus radio station, WKCO. "There's a ton of talent on this campus," says Irvin, who helps the bands gain exposure to a wider audience.