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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Sunday, October 5, 1969

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Buffy:
By BEIT STRATTON
Buffy Sainte-Marie 1i v e s!
That was my initial reaction
when she walked out onto the
stage of Hill And. last night.
Yes, it's been a few years since
the good old days of the "folk
revival" and I wasn't sure if
she was one of the remnants
who had survived the decline of
that particular phenomenon.
But there she was "in living
American Indian color" instead
of in her usual place at the bot-
tom of my record pile lying on
an old friend named Tom Rush.
Yet it was obvious that the
majority of the audience was
not as shocked by her coinmon-
place entrance as I was. To re-
solve that I can assume one
of two things: either that folk-
singers are still as "in" as they
used to be or that most of the
audience was at the concert be-
cause they couldn't think of any
better or cheaper place to go on
a Saturday night. With a keen
sociological eye. I'll hypothesize
that the latter reasoning is the
correct one.
So the audience was some-
what ambivalent, -like "just
who is this chick with the
freaky name?" But this is where
my very logical analysis of the
concert ends, because once Buf-
fy started singing, the event be-
came an experience of complete
Bargains 9 0 0
200 rush tickets for the
Misha Dichter concert will go
on sale at the Hill Aud, box
office, Monday at 4:00 p.m.
These $1.00 tickets are for
seats located throughout the
auditorium with main floor
seats still available. Dichter is a
young American composer
who won the Tchaikovsky
Competition in Moscow in
1966
All unsold tickets for the
UMS Hill Aud. concert series
will be sold as rush seats at
the box office prior to that
day's performance. Rush tick-
ets for all Sunday concerts
will go on sale 1:00 p.m. the
day of the concert, ticket sales
for all evening performances
will begin at 4:00 p.m.
CIIRONICLES OF HELL
APA and UAC will sponsor
a special student matinee of
Ghelderode's Chronicles of
Hell, Thursday, Oct. 9. Tickets
for this production are $3.00
and are now available at the
Mendelssohn Thsatre box of-
fice. Following the perform-
ance, there will be a question
and answer session with cast
members in Ihe Vandenburg
Room in the .League. h
OR(ANiZAT ON
NOT ICES
Theta maP hi n tion apro
clonal organization for women in Jour .
nallsm and coinn ia tions, is holding
an open rush meeting on Sunday, Oct.j
5 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 3- of the-
Michigan Union to give interested
women the oppurt"unity to meet the
active members and to learn more about
Theta Sigma Phi. Also planned isa
panel of Thet a Sis who held medi
Jobs the imst summer
Students for the improvement o
Counselor Educat ion will hold elections
for three student voting postons on
J-Dept. faculty men aselections
dates are Monday, Oct. 6 through Wed-'
nesday, Oct. 8. J-Dept. students not re-_!

celving. miled b1 allots masy obtin aE
ballot ad .vote i 'lom209o: h
election da'
Graduate Outing Club Sundays, at
1::3O meet at Huron Street entrance to
Rackham , . . for hiking, canoeing.
vollybal, ocasinal orseackriding.
Also: rautEaig lbimimedi-
ately following Suiiday outing.
Bach Club Moet ing, TIhurs. Oct. 9. 8
P.o.; 1236 'ashtnaw' tat South Fotest
near S. U.). Speaker: laruld Haughi
"'Bach as Preacher antd Worh Pal iter.'
Rlefreshmen ts and F'UN. Everyone wel
conme (no musical knowledge neededt
For further into, call 0ti5-6806, 003-2327
or 761-7:350
15 of :1, Occai ioogical society: Regti-
tar Meetmin, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 7 P.m.:
Room 102s Nat. l. (test speaker will
be John 'i',eg 'kig nleii
La . ofe anO rf re h ie t :fter-
wards. All welcome
TONIGHT
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Very alive... very beautiful

ALPHA PHI-ALPHA and

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emotion, a crescendoing of em-
pathy between her and us.
Buffy's talents are many-
she's exotically good-looking be-
sides which she also plays a
pretty good guitar and even the
mouth-bow (America's oldest
string instrument) and she has
a voice that is more resilient
than any other female folk-
singer. The direction in which
Buffy led those talents last
night is impossible to pinpoint,
in fact she's about the most
eclectic singer there is. She fol-
lows a. gutsy, down-to-earth,
mountain song with a light Irish
ballad, and it sounds good.
But there's one broad cate-
gory of songs that Buffy did
play and they're called old
favorites (after all she knows
how to vin a crowd) songs that
made her famous-"Little Wheel
Spin and S p i n," "Cripple
Creek," and "The Universal Sol-
dier." And it was a pleasure to
see that Buffy was the same old
gal that I had remembered.
However Buffy likes variety,
and she wasn't about to let me
aInd the other veteran folkies
in the audience naunder in
nostalgia for too long. She used
the commercially-proven win-
ner- Country and Western
m zir - to shake us up. What
it amounted to was some pretty
niediocre sounds -- called "I'm
Gonna Be a Country Girl
Again" and "He's a Pretty Good
Man if You Ask Me"-just a
little pretentious coming from
the former University of Mas-
sachusetts coed.
But Buffy is far from a fake,
and when she returned to her
home round-which is prima-
rily love songs-she brought all
the authenticity and feeling
that she possibly could. So
much feeling in fact, that she
made ie listen not just to the
notes but to the words. (That's
what folksingers are supposed
to do, right? But most of them
don't, because it's one of the
hardest feats in the world to get
anybody to really listen). Dylan
does it, and fluffy did it a cou-
ple times last night too.
One of those times was when
she sang "Lazarus", a tradi-
tional black, bad-man ballad.
There she was without any in-
strumehtal accompaniment, just
wailing or maybe shouting a
gutteral chant as black as her
sliny hair. She had successfully
interpreted the song, breaking
through a superficial veneer
and capturing the emotional gut
of the song - and the audience
was moved.
She jokwd a lot (the stand-
ard fare about how bad the
university scene is) but she
was a better singer than come-
dian, so she quickly picked up
her guitar and went at playing
again. She moved us around -
to Mexico with "Los Pesca-
dores", to Horn and Hardart's

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cafeteria where she wrote "Wel-
conc, Welcome, Emigrante",
and to Ireland for a humorous
But when Buffy, could h a v
conceivably gotten lost in tile
melange she had created, she
always brought it back home
with a rootsy American-earth
song. Actually, her opening
number, "The Piley Wood
Hills", previewed her entire
journey with the words:

I'm on my way home to the
Piney Wood Hills
from ocean to ocean I ramb-
led and roamed
and now I return to niy Piney
Wood Home."
And when she finished her
performauca she was truly at
home - standing ovation from
the sell-out crowd - encore --
standing ovation - encore -
and she was done.

-Daily-Richard Lee
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