I University of Michigan • Ann Arbor

Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra Amsterdam

chat grants wishes to seriously ill children.
To be eligible for nomination, artists
must live or work in the area.
"I enjoy all forms of music, but I
prefer blues because it's so honest and
real," says Pasman, 45, whose group
regularly performs at Memphis Smoke
in Royal Oak, Sisko's in Taylor and
other area nightspots. "Every kind of
music popular today came out of
blues, and our group takes pride in
trying to be original."
Mudpuppy, in its seventh year, previ-
ously has been nominated for and won
a number of MCMF awards, including
Outstanding Blues Ensemble,
Outstanding Blues Recording and
Outstanding R&B Band in 1998. The
group's CD list includes Shag Swing

Riccardo Chailly

conductor

Matthias Goerne

baritone

Wednesday, April 4, 8 pm

Hill Auditorium • Ann Arbor

The outstanding young baritone Matthias Goerne joins the

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for this all-Mahler program,

which features the RUckert Lieder and a reconstruction of

the composer's unfinished Tenth Symphony, a passionate

and anguished work begun only months before Mahler's

untimely death at the age of 50.

Favorites, Swingin' the Blues Volume IV
and Oasis CD Sampler.

The group came up with its name
by thinking of swamps in New
Orleans, the place they revere as a
blues stronghold. Members have
shared concert stages with Buddy Guy,
John Hiatt, Koko Taylor, Larry
McCray and many other blues artists.
1 knew I wanted to play in a band
as soon as I saw the Beatles on televi-
sion," says Pasman, who performed in
a series of bands as a student at
Berkley High School, the University of
Michigan, Oakland Community
College and finally at Oakland
University, where he earned his bache-
lor's degree in communications.
Pasman, who had his bar mitzvah at
Congregation Beth Shalom, found his
early gigs at Jewish weddings and bar
mitzvahs while part of a group called
Squid. He also has been a member of
Clockworks, Domino and Nightflight.
While Pasman enjoys writing music
and lyrics, he also likes introducing
other groups to the public and does so
through his radio show, Motor City
Blues Project, which airs 9 p.m.-mid-
night Sundays on WCSX-94.7 FM.
"I've had this radio show for more
than 13 years, and I present live and
recorded music," says Pasman, whose
easily lives his motto: "Anything blue
wi ll do."

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The Detroit Music Awards will
be presented during a program
that includes a 7:30 p.m. show
Friday, April 6, at the State
Theater, 2115 Woodward,
Detroit. Some awards will be
given in advance at 6:30 p.m.
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