University Daily Kansan
Friday, November 5,1976
Bluegrass buffs find Lawrence listening plentiful
thought
By BILLUYEKI
Lawrence seems to have its share of bluegrass music lovers—not only listeners, but also fiddlers and guitar pickers.
They attend or play at local festivals, including a major festival in Winfield each fall. And each Wednesday night there is a bluegrass and folk music jam session at Off the Wall Hall, 737 New Hampshire St. which attracts quite a few bluegrass fans.
WHAT IS bluegrass music? It's unfair to tag a label on any music genre, but bluegrass is generally from this country's rural or from this country's rural or
Steve Mason of McKinney Mason
Stringed Instruments sums up
bluegrass as 'baroque music in high
speech.' Mason also grew
from old-time fiddle styles.
mountain regions. the instruments include guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin and string bass, none of which are amplified.
It would be an understatement to say that much bluebird is foot-tapping. The music often is played at a blistering pace, with improvisations on the main melody line.
Gloria Thone, a local bluegrass supporter and also a board member of the Friends of KANU FM, says the hot pace of bluegrass music, in
which each soloist fires off rapid riffs during instrumental breaks, largely was influenced by jazz. Old-time music is more relaxed and places less emphasis on the fast solo breaks, she said.
KANU GIVES listeners two two-hour programs of bluegrass "Grass Grass" is produced locally by Jarnie Jones, programmer at KANU. "Folk Festival U.S.A." is a syndicated show produced by National
Jones, who started "Even Grass" about nine months ago, age says the program's title was chosen to represent the wide range of music that could fall under the label of bluegrass.
"The title explains the music we play," Jones said. "It covers the whole spasm."
The "spasm," he said, includes old-time music, Irish fiddle tunes and even some offshoots of jazz.
Jones said listeners had reacted to his show "violently, wonderfully and sometimes sleepy." Once, some progressive bluegrass music offended some Kansas City listeners that they sent him some hate mail.
"WE PLAY everything from traditional music to jazz, which is what Vassar Clements has been getting into," he said.
But then when Jones played traditional bluegrass, some
Lawrence listeners called and wanted more progressive music played, he recalled.
WHETHER IT'S traditional or progressive bluegrass, Lawrence has a large following for this music form. The annual festival in Winfield people, and many drive from Lawrence and stay the whole weekend.
Throne says the Wednesday night jam session has as many as 200 to 300 participants, even though many don't attend regularly, and they include the young and the old, town girls and often four or five KU professors.
And Jones says the increase in requests from listeners indicates a growing audience for his show. The
first marathon, or special Sunday evening three-hour show for bluegrass, drew three requests from listeners.
BUT SAYS JONES, "The last marathon we had, we couldn't keep the phone board clear."
His program, which used to be programmed by Bill Evans, a Kansas State University-English teacher, was in length from one to two hours.
Last year, KANU lost the underwriter—the organization providing funds—for programing funds in bluegrass benefit concert be given to help pay for the programing costs, to make it easier for attendees to enjoy bluegrass music and to give some
Throne says the admission price ($1.50) was kept low so many people could come and enjoy the music.
A SECOND benefit concert will be from 1 to 6 p.m. at Off the Wall Hall this Sunday, to help raise funds for the programing of "Even Grass." Seven local groups will perform. One group, Lyman Enloe and the Bluegrass Association, played at the in the same room. Enloe is one of the most famous and popular old-time fiddle players in the area.
Arts & Leisure
Also on Sunday will be a special call-in request marathon for bluegrass music on KANU, from 7 to 10:30 p.m.
jam session participants an opportunity to perform.
Disco denizens dance the latest unison dances, a necessity at the Lawrence discos
By STEVE FRAZIER
Staff Writer
“It's a real drag if I have to spend the first two hours of every day just teaching the guy to dance.”
"When I go on a date I want to go to a disco, and my date better prepares me," she said. She stop the New Yorker and Stop Hustle," said a female University of Kansas student who asked to remain unidentified.
Do the Hustle, Latin Hustle,
Broken Hip Hustle, San
Francisco Hustle, Rope Hustle,
or the Arnist Hustle, the Bus Stop
Hustle, the Mexican Hustle,
Yorker, Mexican Hustle, Hop
Scotch, Hop stop, Chicago
Shuffle, Watergate, Madison,
Space Walk, Ford's Funk,
Trip, Jump or the Rochet, be sure
you know the steps.
LOCAL DISCO employees and dance instructors said perhaps soon she won't have to worry,
Of Lawrence's three discos—Bugsy's, Shenanigans and Sarn. Now offers dance lessons to its customers. However, the response to the lessons has been positive. Sheriff Sarn's disco library, Sheriff Sarn's disco library, said
because more disco customers are learning formalized dance steps. But others said the dance steps were just a passing fad and before long everybody was back to "free-form" dancing.
"When we first opened in February, I only saw about two couples who knew and dance steps," he said. "Since then, it's heavily grown more popular to watch people know at least one step.
"It is impressive," agreed Oshirak.
"It makes you look better, a lot better. People look at you if you are good."
area," Uttan said. "It's going to be catching on even more in the future.
"The dance floor is like a stage-ours is lighted and raised above the rest of the club—and people feel a sense of pride when they know others are watching them dance.
Cheryl Hoag, one of the instructors at Sheriff Sam's, said knowing special disco steps "is the popular thing to do now.
"If you don't know any steps, you feel left out, or kind of inferior. If you're good, it's an easy way to get to a feeling of performing."
"I SUPPOSE disco dancing brings out the hot dog in people."
Others say that knowing at least one step, the Bus Stop, is a matter of necessity.
The Bus Stop has been the most popular step to step in the game, and although it is getting a little old. "When the disc jockey ups up the song "The Bus Stop," soon the entire floor is moving
Finnigan's energy igniting
intricate moves and then vanished into the night.
Shenanigans used to offer dance lessons Tuesday nights, "but it didn't go over too well so we had to redo it." Employee, Joleke Lester, said. Tim Grimm, manager of Bithouse Dance Center, never hired dance instructors.
"We have a real regular group from Kansas City with about 10 to 20 people in it that has something new every time it comes in," Grimm said. "Everybody else watches and some practice logos them. They practice logos them, make up new routines, because they usually do stuff I've never seen before."
"IF 'BUS STOP' comes on
and you don't know the step, you
better get off the floor," he said.
It's "just a mass of
moving couples together,
there's no room for anyone else."
SOMETIMES, there are more tangible rewards than feelings of pride for good dancers. Utan Khalifa will perform second in a dance disc contest in New York, and local disc offer prizes ranging from free beer to a weekend at Crown Hotel in Kansas City, Mo.
Several of the disco denizens referred to "expert" dancers from Kansas City, Mo., who have been able to dazzle the locals with their
3y TIM BRADLEY
"We always give the best prize to the best students, but we lose our prizes to people who prize to people if they've been improving and working hard."
BUT at least one local dance instruction group is going strong, according to its leader. Leslie Utton, Monsey, N.Y., junior, teaches the Hashingter Hall class for residents of Hashinger Hall that has grown to include about 25 people.
Some music originates in the brain and other music starts in the heart. Still other music comes from places more southern, and that is the kind the heart is most at night on "The Wall Hall"
"There's no demand that I've heard of." he said.
Mike Finnigan was in town and there was nary a tacit toe in the hall.
Maria Muldaur. Now it's a stab at a solo career.
"This sort of thing has just started to be noticed in this
His band now consists of Bill Smith, Bob Glob, Rick Jaeger and Amos Garrett on keyboards, bass, drums and guitar. Individually, the list of luminaries these gents have
Spontaneous combustion is the only way to describe what happened when Finnigan and his crew of crazies took the stage. "Willie and the Handi-Jew" whisked the wall-to-wall crowd of whooops and screams in a special body music that comes from an incendiary mixture of blues, rock and a little gospel.
the beer and the crowd encouraged the group to stretch out, so some of the numbers were a little long. In places, the band weren't sure whose turn it was to solo or sing.
MIKE FINNIGAN has a voice that could make a crow cry and is without dispute the world's best honkyuki singer. In 1964, he came to KU on a basketball scholarship but gave up the ball to catch the Serfs was his first real exposure in the area, followed by a stint with the Jerry Hahn Brotherhood. Next, he worked with Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Wood, Dave Mason and
fingers in the stead of a pick,
he's able to coax a feathery,
almost whimsical tone from his
guitar. His soles comment on
or embellish it, without hustle or
hype, muscle or tripe.
Hsg said, "But I think it might end up to be more of a passing fad. You don't find near you. Distance contrasts as you used to."
worked with extends from Dave Mason, Mark Almond, Rod Stewart and Bonnie Raitt to John Lennon and Ringo Starr.
Bassist Bob Glob provided the best bottom since Thumper the Rabbit and the whole band just cooked and cooked and cooked.
The tunes ranged from rhythm and blues to soulful ballads to rock 'n' roll, where what you get is what you sweat.
BUT THIS band showed more spirit than any of the gruntmongers who call themselves bands could ever muster. The everything-gives atmosphere set feet and souls on fire, and the show was a definite five-pointer.
IVE SAID it before, but I would drag myself naked through broken glass and kill the foot of Amos Garrett
This particular band was put together with the idea of touring for just one month, and last summer they toured the city. The flow of the music and
mayonnaise jar, so the sound is somewhat muddied. And you have to make sure you get it into your bathroom at the beginning of the night, because once the place fills up and the crowd starts buzzing, you risk grave injury trying to get through.
MOST OF the tunes were blues-based, but ever so danceable, and the audience was impressed. Now, with the band, proving as one entity.
At a time when many a rock
at guitar doesn't know his axe
from a hole in the ground, Amos
is a beacon in the fog. Using his
Just the blues, you say? It may seem that anyone can play the blues by just following the two-bar formula. But the result, then, is the feathers without the flight.
MOST AGREED, though that whether or not the formalized steps come or go, the discus will always remain while longer. Newsweek magazine said there are about 10,000 nationwide, and the discus will remain longer.
The Finnigan Band demonstrated that special kinesiesthesis that comes from oneness with the audience. The tunes ranged from rhythm and blues to soulful ballads to rock 'n' roll, where what you get is what you hope they could play those blues.
OKAY, OKAY, before I drown in hyperhele, here there were some problems. Off The Wall Hall has the acoustics of a
Perhaps more telling than statistics is how Hesler summarized the attraction of disco dancine:
"I think people are addicted to it."
The members of the quartet—Arnold Steinhardt, John Dalley, Michael Schoenberg, Tree and David Wilson will all play in G Major," by Mozart,
The Guarneri String Quartet, an ensemble of relatively young musicians of worldwide acclaim, will perform in the University of Kansas Chamber Music Series Sunday.
Guarneri quartet in concert Sundav
"Quartet No. 1 in A minor," by Barkot, and "Quartet in F Major," Op. 59, No. 1, by Beethoven.
Steinhardt, a violinist, received the Leventrit Award and won the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels. He has appeared as a solist in many major orchestras, including those in Philadelphia, New York and Cleveland.
Zaniness fills Monty Python book
The members of Monty Python's Flying Circus have compiled a zany collection of hilarious short articles in a style that makes National Lampoon a book of a grade school child.
By PAUL ADDISON
for something completely different, read The Brand New Monty Python Papperbok and that lunacy isn't quite dead.
The Brand New Monty Python Papperbok, Warner Books. $6.95.
The Papperbok, a sequel to Monty Python's Big Red Book, comes complete with grubby cheese and mock reviews by famous
Staff Writer
ONE FEATURE, the Python Book of Etiquette, shows how to recognize the Queen of England and how not to talk to her. Another page is a game sponsored by "Democrats for Fascism," that asks the reader to place six photos of Richard Tucker and complete the following: "Take a Tricky Duckie because
tennis players on the back.
Inside, no famous person or institution is spared as the butt of humor.
The humor served up by these masters of dry British wit is often ambiguous, often ridiculous, but always illuminated. The wisdom obscure thoughts, such as taking your appendix on the
EACH PAGE, however, is delicate concoction of crazy ideas. There's a page that enunciates how to rub your stomach with sonality and a partly on club, clubs, which asks: "Did you know Chuck Berry wrote man of Shakespeare's plays? This is just one of the totally inaccurate Hackenborn the Hackenborn Holo of Lies."
Piccadilly Line. Many of the jokes concern peculiarly British institutions and personalities.
For gourmet chefs, the Monty Python team explains the rudiments of preparing rat pie and rat souffle. The directions are simple. "Raise the chopper high above the head and then
THROUGHOUT the book, allusions are made to many of the ongoing Python characters, including the reader to identify with the TV format in a literary concept. Unlike the Big Red Book, which includes the movies and authors most of the hours it is in release, not rehoused from TV sketches.
bring it down—wham—with a vivid crunch–straight across the taut neck of the terrified and make it into a souffle. "
Tree, who plays the viola,
made his debut in Carnegie Hall
in 1953. He noted as both a violinist
and violist, he has given solo
performances with orchestra in
Baltimore and Los Angeles.
DALLEY, ALSO a violinist,
appeared in his first concert
when he was 14. Before joining
the quartet, he was a faculty
member at the Oberlin Conservatory,
a member of the Quartet and an artist-in-residence at the University of Illinois.
This is '70s humor at its best and provides hours of hilarious reading and can be picked up time and time again without losing its initial effect of sheer delight.
Highlights
SOYER, A cellist, debuted with the Philadelphia Orchestra when he was 17, and has been a member of the Bach Aria Group, the Gullet Quartet and the New Music String Quartet.
This Week's
Exhibits
Tickets for the concert are $5 and can be bought in the box office in Murphy Hall until the time of the performance.
AMISTAD II; AFOR-AMER-ICAN ART, is exhibited at the Watkins Museum, 11th and Massachusetts streets.
"TODAY'S WORKING
work by Lawrence artists, is displayed at the Lawrence Arts
Center, Ninth and Vernant
PHOTOGRAPHS by Steve Szabo are on display at the Spooner Museum of Art.
Concerts
FREE FOLK JAM SESSION, from 7 to 12.
ROY RACOY AND THE ALL STARS play dance music tonight and tomorrow night to 12 at the Nest, Kansas Union.
Nightclubs
SHARI WEELBORG, vocalist and guitar player, plays tomorrow night and Thursday night from time to time in a m at orlando, Panama.
THE CHAMBER CHOIR AND CONCERT CHORALE perform tonight at 8 in Swar- tion Rectal Hall in Murbah
THE TWANG BROTHERS, a country rock band, play tonight and tomorrow night from 9 to 12 At Off the Wall Hall CARGO plays at the hall Monday night from 9 to 12 Family BLUEGRASS BAND plays Tuesday night from 9 to 12 Wednesday night is the hall's
THE KANSAS WOODWIND QUINTET, composed of KU night numbers, performs Monday night at 8 in Swarthwout Recital Hall.
MARATHON MAN- A-
n- a -
Dustin Hoffman and Laur-
en Olivier. Written by Willi-
m Goldman from his novel, and
throughout the year.
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RICHARD CRYDER performs a faculty recital on the trombone Tuesday night at 8 in Swarthown.
Films
THE CRIME OF M
classic satires, revolving around a small publishing firm taken over by the workers after
CAR WASH—A variation of the "Grand Hotel" format in which all the events take place by a person who is the script is very thin and the name actors (Richard Pryor, George Crompton, Sisters) are wasted in scaries.
FAREWELL,MY LOVELY- Raymond Chandler's novel gets a respectful treatment that makes him feel like the substance of the original. Jack O'Halloran as the aplistin, with its mischievous Mitchum as the tired Philip Karmen lead the cast, which also includes Rampage and Sylvia Miles.
SOUNDER, PART II - A belated, badly conceived sequel to the tale about a poor family of orphans in the Middle East, adapted from an award-winning children's story. Only screenwriter Lonne Elene III and Tai Mahal return from the past, which was truly sounder.
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