While attending school at Greenville College in Illinois, Augustana frontman Dan Layus failed piano — twice. Professor Kwon, Layus’s instructor, never much cared for the fact that he couldn’t read sheet music. After enrolling in a pair of music theory courses — and flunking both of them — Layus gathered his friends, primarily his fellow bandmates, and offered a bold new plan. Forget college. Forget grades. Forget Professor Kwon. Let’s just go.
