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Entertainment
Wednesday June 10,1998
KJHK radio show cultivates Lawrence music talent
Travis Milard searches for the right CD to play on KJHK The Hawk. The student disc jockey worked on Monday mixing tunes. Photo by Lizz Weber/KANSAN.
By Becca Ulanoff Kansan staff writer
For Travis Millard, Olathe senior, plowing the fields every Friday afternoon does not mean climbing on a tractor.
As host of KJHK's "Plow the Fields," Millard is responsible for harvesting musical talent, not crops. The weekly three-hour radio show supports the Lawrence music scene by featuring local bands.
The show is the brainchild of Jacki Becker, a former KU student and KJHK disc jockey. Becker is vice president of Pipeline Productions, a local music promotion company.
"Kansas is synonymous with farming, and farming equals growing something fresh," Becker said. "I wanted the show to sow the fields of local music."
The program's DJ before Millard, Tum Humphrey, KU graduate, invited bands to play live on the show.
"The show gives people an opportunity to find out what local artists sound like and discover that there are actually records to buy that are of equal quality to nationally distributed records," Humphrey said.
With Humphrey, a five-piece band and equipment all in the 120-square-foot studio at the same time, the environment got crowded and chaotic.
After two years as the show's DJ, Humphrey recruited fellow art student Millard to become the host.
Millard said that "Plow the Fields" did not need improving and that he planned to keep up the pace set by Humphrey.
"Tom did a lot for the local music scene." Millard said. "It seems like pretty big shoes to fill."
Because Millard is a local musician, his songs were often featured on the show. He said that he felt weird about playing his own stuff.
For now, Millard just plans to concentrate on cranking out the local hits.
"Plow the Fields" is on 90.7 FM from 5 to 8 p.m. Fridays.
Local bands are encouraged to submit their music for the show
Lied Center adds series of cultural performing
The Lied Center began its sixth season counting down to the millennium.
"I am pleased to be able to offer diversity and this quality of performers for this part of the U.S.", said Jackie Davis, director of the center.
She said the idea to start the new series came from her travels to various countries, including Japan, Brazil and Africa.
Davis said that through the Cultural Countdown series, the center would have the opportunity to explore different areas in performing arts that they had not done previously.
"The Lied Center's intention for the following seasons are to investigate African-American, Asian-American and
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Native-American influences on the performing arts," Davis said.
The 1998-99 season will highlight Latino influences in contemporary performing arts bringing the Miami City Ballet, Culture Clash, Ballet Hispanico and Triangula. Workshops, panel discussions and lecture/demonstrations also will be held as part of the Latino artistic traditions.
The half-price discount will continue throughout the year, but after this date the general public also will be able to purchase tickets.
Starting this year, the Lied Center will add a multi-year project called Cultural Countdown that will focus on the most important cultural influences on the performing arts in the next millennium.
"Now the best seats are available to students, but after June 15th we will hold only 35 percent of the seats for them, but not necessarily the best places in the house," said Christilles.
A variety of events will be presented in the center throughout its five thematic series: Concert, Swarthout Chamber Music, New Directions, Broadway and Beyond, and Family.
Until June 15, individual and season tickets for University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University students are available at the center for half-price as part of its campaign entitled "You Come First."
CONCERT CALENDAR
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"Students can take advantage of any single event now," said Karen Christilles, the center's director of public relations.
Some performances scheduled include the New York City Opera National Company performing Madama Butterfly, the St. Petersburg State Ice Ballet performing Romeo and Juliet, Stomp and 23 other shows.
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It is 8 a.m. in Washington, D.C. and a groggy Sam Jayne shares a tall tale.
"She was giving somebody streaks, someone with lots and lots of hair," Jayne recalls of his first encounter with LAL's guitarist Jessica Espelta.
He and LAL's drummer were driving Honda Sprees down the street in front of the salon and decided to make a pit stop.
"We drove through the salon's front window," he said. "It was during the apologies that we asked Jessica to play in the band."
I could hear Jayne pouring himself something to drink, possibly coffee or orange juice but probably a cranberry beverage.
Was that encounter story really true?
Jayne, lead singer and guitarist for LAL, will play at the
Replay Lounge Tuesday night.
The group, formerly known as Love and Laughter was labeled by New Musical Express as "the fib four" and has developed a reputation for being masters at lying.
The fibers are leaving their home in Seattle to tour 18 cities including Minneapolis, New York and Chicago.
Constant touring leaves little time for production of a follow-up to their debut CD "#1 USA", however Jayne said fans could expect a second album soon.
"#1 USA" has been praised in London and Washington, D.C. Members of LAL hope their optimistic musical message will touch other cities.
"I'll tell you what it's not," Jayne said. "Our music's not negative. I mean, I hope not, because a lot of modern music right now is negative. Not rap or hard core but mostly alternative. It's bogus, it defeats us. And hey, it's not any fun."
Espelata offered another version of Jayne's tall tale about how they met.
"I was working at an ice cream parlor," she explained.
The Band LAL, shown here, cavort with one another after a show. The band will play at the Replay Lunge, 946 Massachusetts St., on June 16. Contributed Photo.
"And Sam came in and ate a whole lot of ice cream, and he got a really bad ice cream headache, so I had to call an ambulance."
Liar, liar pants on fire.
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