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Authentic Bluegrass Music Comes to KU With 'Dillards'
By Mary Dunlap
To define the term, "Bluegrass music" is not an easy undertaking. A definition of the music demands a hearing.
The Dillards, four young men from Missouri, attempt to capture the real spirit of the mountain people in their music. Unlike country-western music, or the current commercialized folk musie, their numbers are based on the songs that have lived for generations within the families of the Ozarks and southern rural areas.
At 7:00 on Thursday, May 13, in Hoch Auditorium, a group of young country instrumentalists known as the Dillards, will play bluegrass music for KU students in a free concert.
"Bluegrass" had its beginning during the Revolutionary War, and survived untitled through generations of hill people.
IT WAS NOT until 17 years ago that Bluegrass became a known and recognized form of music. Bill Monroe, a musician, took the sounds of the hills and presented them in their true form. carefully avoiding gimmicks and flashiness.
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The music that the Dillards play is called "Back Porch Music," after the fashion in which it was once played. It includes mountain songs, dance tunes, breakdowns, original material based on music heard in the hills and "plav-party" music.
"Play-party" music originated when stern religious practices would not allow people to dance at gatherings. The people got around this by playing music at their meetings. Because holding hands was not allowed either, a type of
dancing that later became square- dancing evolved.
DOUGLAS AND RODNEY Dillard come from a long heritage of musicians. Their father, a fiddler, bought the boys their first instruments.
There have been 32 musicians in their background, and the two brothers can now play all the instruments that are recognized as bluegrass instruments. They are both from Salem, Mo.
Dean Webb, another member of the group, is also able to play all bluegrass instruments, but he specializes in the mandolin. He is from Independence, Mo. Mitchell Jaynes, spokesman for the group and bass player, was once a radio announcer in Salem, Mo. He was also a teacher at several backwoods schools.
"THE CONCERT is sponsored by the Student Union Activities Board as a 'gratitude concert' for student support given to the Harry Belafonte and Henry Mancini Concerts." Mike Rogers, SUA Special Events Chairman and Hutchinson senior, said.
"This is the real thing." Rogers
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said. "It is a part of the American heritage, not the typical commercialized folk music." He added that the Dillards present music that is as close as possible to the actual music in the hills of the Ozarks and rural southern areas.
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"This isn't the music of the electric guitar and the sequined, spangled suits," he continued, "but the authentic music of the hills."
The true folk singer is never heard by the rest of the world because he sits on a porch playing and telling stories for the people that are near him, Rogers said. The Dillards manage to keep the same flavor as the man on the porch in the Ozarks, but they bring the music out of the hills.
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The Dillards will be on an extended tour that will include appearances at Ft. Hays, and with Andy Williams at Hutchinson's spring festival. They have made numerous appearances, including six guest appearances on the "Andy Griffith Show." They also have recorded three lp albums.
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