JCC 1997-1998
Encore and Chajes
Concert Series
presents:
A classical concert
with an ensemble of
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Sunday, January 11, 1998
2:00 p.m.
Jewish Community Center
JPM Building/Oak Park
Detroiters love the alternative rock band
from across the border.
Auburn Hills on New Year's Eve, a
show bound to include crazy antics,
impromptu covers and improvised
hey are not women, and
additions to well-loved songs.
they do wear clothes.
"I don't know what it is — The
And Barenaked Ladies are
Planet [96.3 FM WHYT] has been
immensely popular in the
playing us like crazy. But even before
metro Detroit area, according to Steven
they started playing us, we were selling
Page, the band's 42-year-old lead singer
out the Fox [Theatre]. I'm not sure
and only Jewish member.
why we've struck a chord
The Toronto-based band,
with
Detroit people, but we
Bar enaked
which formed in 1988, has had
really have," Page says.
L adies:
its greatest U.S. success in the
Songs like "If I Had
Ma c-and-
Motor City, says Page. "Detroit cheese , anyone? $1,000,000" and "The Old
is probably our biggest market
Apartment" really resonate
in the United States — a great
with younger listeners.
place for us to come and play."
In fact, responding to a line in the
They are playing to the Palace of
"$1,000,000" song — "If I had a
LYNNE MEREDITH COHN
StaffWriter
Tickets:
$10 for members • $15 for non - rriembers
For tickets and information call:
(248) 661-7649 Maple/Drake
• or
(248) 967-4030 Oak Park
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Funded in part by the Manny and Natalie Charach
Endowment for the Cultural Arts, the Irwin and Sadie'
Cohn Fund, the DeRoy Testamentary Foundations and
the Boaz Siegel Culture Fund.
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