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arts & entertainment
The Michigan Daily-Sunday, April 15, 1979-Page7,
JIMMY CLIFF in 1973
THE HARDER THEY COME
An exotic glimpse of Jamaican life in this first film from the isle of reefer.
A violent tale of a young innocent who comes to seek his fortune as a pop
star and ends up as a renegade desperado. Based on a true story. Reggae
music by Jimmy Cliff, Toots and the Maytals, the Slickers, and others throb
with vitality throughout the film. "The Harder They Come has more guts,
wit, humor, and sheer exuberance than most movies you'll see in any one
year of moviegoing."-Vincent Canby. (100 min). Plus Short-A Looney
Tune: THE HECKLING HARE (1941)-Tex Avery directed this, his fourth and
last cartoon featuring Bugs Bunny (whom Avery created). (111 m) 7:00 8 9:00
A
completely
grandfinale
By ERIC ZORN
It is not rare to see an entertaining
and complete performance at the Ark
coffeehouse-this semester there have
been many-and the John Roberts and
Tony Barrand weekend series, one of
the absolute finest, was an especially
satisfying way to wrap up this season of
folk music.
The two Englishmen not only sang
their traditional English songs and
ballads with flawless harmonies and
added lively instrumental accom-
panient, but their stage personality was
as infectious and throughly charming
as we remembered from the Ann Arbor
Folk Festival in early January. Their
act is throughl4 professional without
being slick, and zesty without being ob-
noxious.
WHO CAN SAY if it was the best we
had this term? The styles and inten-
tions of all the different performers
have ranged widely, and comparing
them is as pointless as difficult. Along
with Roberts and Barrand, The
Louisiana Aces Cajun band, Bryan
Bowers, Michael Cooney, and the
Corklickers stand out in the memory as
performing concerts of especial merit,
quality, and interest. All of these per-
formers provide much more than just
soothing treatments for tired ears: Not
only does one learn a lot about different
cultures and value systems, but the
musicians give a great deal of them-
selves to the usually small and recep-
tive audiences.
It was this sort of communication
that Roberts and Barrand were
especially good at during Friday's con-
cert. Their jolly songs and stories were
interspersed with some serious folklore
and carols for the Easter season; their
whimsical expressions, subtle comic
and musical interplay, and tight vocal
work made the whole event exceedingly
fun to watch.
"WE TRY TO PUT in the topical
songs, like Easter carols, whenever it is
important," said Tom Roberts between
sets. "We're very interested in the
traditions, but we also work very hard
at entertaining. We are entertainers."
They are surely nothing less. The
second set was marked by the easy
charm of the two Britishers who met
while Stateside in 1968 and began to
sing in front of audiences a year later.
Resisting the Smothers Brothers style
of one-sided acerbic back-chat, Roberts
and Barrand, both nimble minded and
at ease on stage, trade quips with each
other and the audience, often exploring
longer jokes or humorous poems.
It's the emphasis on the all-important
concept of a total show which makes a
Roberts and Barrand concert such a
sure entertainment bet. There's much
more to folk music than the music, and
this pair prove they have it all.
AND THOUGH THIS particular
season at the Ark is over, a new one will
commence May 10 with a concert from
a to
Ann Arbor's own Craig Johnson. Jeff
Muldaur and Amos Garret, Margaret
MacArthur, an Irish band, and a host of
other acts will drift through town
during the summer. Regular Wed-
nesday Hootenannies are also on tap, as
well as the amateur comedy night on
May 15th which is reportedly already
generating enthusiasm.
Some acts will be as complete and
satisfying as Roberts and Barrand, and
others not, One of the great things about
being at the Ark is that you don't
always know.
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Rogyr wraps it up
ANOTHER SCHOOL YEAR is winding down, and it is with tear dimmed
eyes that we prepare to bid farewell-for a time-to the University
we have come to know so well: No matter that the weather these last few
weeks has been odd to the point that a shower of rice pudding and old TV
Guides would surprise nobody; no'matter that the MSA and Idi Amin show
approximately the same degree of governmental fecklessness; no matter
that some of us have final exams. Surely none of these things will bring on
depression severe enough to stop us from making a last review of the cam-
pus to store up precious graffiti memories for the long, dry summer ahead.
But before sharing these last few tidbits, allow me to remind you to visit
the motor pool. Seniors, no career at Michigan is complete without a trip to
this armory, conveniently located near Crisler Arena. You'll be amazed at
how many dozens of buses, trucks, and vans the U owns. Well, perhaps you
won't be amazed, but the idea of hundreds of students visiting the motor pool
each day appeals strongly to my taste for the unusual.
TODAY'S WITTY ETCHINGS are a random lot, the dregs of a
semester's worth of graffiti reading. On the political front, there's "U of M
out of Ann Arbor," from Mason Hall, and "Free the U of M 40,000,"
somewhere in the bowels of East Quad. For the Easter buff, the very
basement of this same East Quad offers a primitively drawn crucifix with
the caption, "God-on-a-stick cult follower." Angell Hall's inspired "Calculus
sucks to the max-min," is matched in subtlety only by "$ign, $ign on, lar-
vest Moon," at the NUBS computer facility.
Sexual frustration and a distinctive experience are no doubt responsible
for the suggestive "There are two things in the world which taste like fish,
and one of them is fish."
Before leaving for my summer
internship as a graffiti columnist
at the New York Times where I'll
be riding the subways and trying
not to be killed, my conscienceAAEN APPEL
insists that I publicly recognize BAS K I N
all those whom' made this first BUFFET
semester of "Nuke The Whales"
possible. Thanks first to my CALDE
mother, known only to me as
Mrs. Pensman, and the Arts and CHAGA
Entertainment staff at the Daily, CEZAN
both those who believed in my
writing, and those who doubted DUPRE
my existence. Special thanks are DAL I
due my research assistant Gerry EARL
Prokopowicz, perhaps the finest
human being I shall ever be F I N I F (
privileged to know. Also in- GOY GA
despensible was Tom Wright, a
truly wild and crazy guy: Tom, HU R JA
you know who you are. L L L P
I'd like to thank sincerely all of
you who wrote on the walls only MAX M I F
to find your geinus appearing in MO NE I
this fine, creditable newspaper.
Cap ite meom uxorem, si RE
vu ius, and see you next fall. RO RAUC
Dances/janet Soares
Monday, April 16-Tuesday, April 17
Young Choreogra hers
Wed., April 18 Dance ldg., 8 PM
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THE
RIVER
NIGER
By Joseph A.Walker
Featuring MEL WINKLER.
Guest Actor-in- Residence
Wed. April 11- Sat. April14 8PM.
Sun. April15-2PM Power Center
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