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CLASSICAL NOTES
The Great Lakes
Chamber Music
Festival kicks off
Saturday, June 12,
and runs through
Sunday, June 27, at a
host of area venues.
Jewish performers
include pianist Ruth
Laredo, clarinetist
Laurence Liberson,
narrator Jamie
Bernstein, cellist
Ruth Laredo opens the Great
Paul Katz and
Lakes Chamber Music Festival.
Jerusalem's Ariel
Quartet. For more
information and a complete schedule, call (248) 559-
2097 or go to www.greatlakeschambermusic.com .
POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK
Freedom Hill in Sterling Heights welcomes show
business veteran Tom Jones 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June
12. $18-$65. (248) 645-6666.
Country punkster Hank Williams III takes the
stage at Detroit's Magic Stick Saturday, June 12.
Doors at 8 p.m. $12. (248) 645-6666.
Meadow Brook Music Festival presents
ON THE STAGE
earthy singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge,
The Village Players in Birmingham, in
with special guest comedian Kate Clinton,
cooperation with the Troy Historical
7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 12, $28-$88; and
Society, mount a production of The
an evening with alternative rock group •
Recruiting Officer, a bawdy Restoration
Primus, including a performance of their
comedy and the first play professionally
album Frizzle hy, 8 p.m. Friday, June 18,
performed in America, 7:30 p.m.
$41. (248) 645-6666.
Monday-Wednesday, June 14-16, and 8
Entertainment at this year's Detroit
p.m. Friday, June 18, at their playhouse.
Festival of the Arts includes Ann Arbor-
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
$10. (248) 644-2075.
based klezmer fusion band Into the
Arts & Lift Editor
Freylach, performing 1-2:15.p.m. Sunday,
June 13, on the Wayne State/WDET stage.
THE SMALL SCREEN
For a complete schedule of performances, call (313)
577-5088 or go to -www.detroitfestival.com .
Old and new Sex and the City fans are in for a treat
DTE Energy Music Theatre hosts classic rockers
when TBS begins airing the award-winning relation-
Styx and Peter Frampton, with special guest Nelson,
ship comedy June 15. The cable station will air 10
6:30 p.m. Monday, June 14, $19.50-$37.50; Kansas,
memorable episodes over five nights in prime time
with special guest Asia, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June
beginning 10 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, June 15-19; the
16, $18.50-$29.50; and Chicago and Earth, Wind
entire series will then air in order beginning Tuesday,
and Fire, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 17, $27.50-$75.
June 22, with two episodes airing each Tuesday and
(248) 645-6666.
encoring each Wednesday in prime time. Check your
The Michigan Jazz Festival holds a gourmet jazz
local cable listings.
brunch in honor of Father's Day and featuring the
World's Oldest Saxophone Section, 12-3 p.m.
(brunch served 12-1 p.m.) Sunday, June 20, at
THE ART SCENE
Schoolcraft College, 18600 Haggerty Road, in
Ferndale's Suzanne Hilberry Gallery presents an
Livonia. $25 per person (tables of eight available).
exhibition of paintings and works on paper by
(248) 474-2720.
Elizabeth Murray, whose works combine biomorphic
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singing — I had a natural voice —
and appeared in school programs and
other local shows."
She also competed, and lost, on the
Ted Mack Amateur Hour, and could
have had a scholarship at a local music
conservatory. "But I got involved in
gang culture, and became an unwed
mother at 18,"
she continued.
"I went on wel-
fare and took
food stamps to
support my son
and myself, but
I wasn't making
it, so I became a
`sex worker.'"
Kane starred
in porn movies
20 years ago
and was a strip-
per in night-
clubs. She
appeared on the
covers of about
150 magazines,
including
ewish
sites
every
chance
Candye Kane in Israel: "I tour historic
Hustler, and
I get when IM traveling."
Kane was born in East Los Angeles
to a body-painting hippie musician
and a dysfunctional mother. "My
mother was a kleptomaniac and taught
me to shoplift at the age of 9," related
Kane in an interview from her San
Diego home. "Fortunately, I never got
caught. Then I concentrated on my
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even wrote an advice column for Gent
magazine.
Kane used her money from the
lucrative sex business and began subsi-
dizing her musical dreams, forming
bands, making recordings, writing
songs and plastering fliers all over
Hollywood. She almost signed a deal
with CBS/Epic A&R to be a country
singef, but officials found out about
her checkered background, and wanted
her to renounce her past and basically
change everything about herself.
She refused, got married again, had
another son and took two years of
college. Then she discovered the blues
styles of several old-time female blues
singers who, like herself, also were
plus-sized and colorful. Kane had
found a home in the blues and jazz.
In the meantime, she and her son
Tommy, 15, got interested in Judaism
when they rented a video of the
Fiddler on the Roof movie. They spent
four years educating themselves,
attending classes at the University of
Judaism in Los Angeles and going
through conversion. They belong to
Temple Solel in San Diego, where
Rabbi Ted Riter is one of her biggest
music fans. Tommy attends the San
Diego Jewish Academy, had a bar
mitzvah at 14, davens often and reads
the Torah at holiday services.
"While studying Judaism, I realized I
believed in the same core values
expressed in the religion and practiced
by Jewish people, so it was a natural
thing to convert," she explained.
"Tommy thinks Judaism is really cool.
He tries to keep kosher, and is always
asking questions and probing about
the religion. We insist that our friends
watch movies on the Holocaust, so
they'll be aware of what Hitler did.
And I tour historic Jewish sites every
chance I get when I'm traveling."
Kane admits that the sex business is
not a recommended path for everyone
to use to achieve success, "but it
worked for me," she said. "Being a sex
worker emancipated me financially; it
was a stepping stone to my musical
career and has enabled me to travel the
world and carry out my dreams."
Kane has written about 100 songs —
mainly about the lonely, downtrodden
and unloved — including several