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Brom
By KURT HARJU
David Bromberg brought his
own variety of "folks" music -
a potporrui of tunes ranging
from some popular sing-a-longs
and folk standards to finger-
licking bluegrass and Irish fid-
die tunes - back to Ann Arbor
Monday night in a special two-
day engagement at the Ark.
Just coming off a tour that
ended in Chicago and in the
process of changing managers,
Bromberg got last-minute book-
ing here on his way back home
!erg
to New York in what he t
"an Ark benefit for D a
Bromberg." Though his
have been generally .suzce.
he had been finding, upo
turning, that he ends upc
money through mismanage
- thus accounting for the
rent transition and the shot
the Ark where a large ft
ing enables him to win
some of his losses.
Despite the rain and little
licity, the Ann Arbor f
showed up in force and p
deli gh t
erms every available space on t h e
v i d first dly back from vacation for
tours one of their all-time favorites.
ssfiul, As the tour was formally over,
n re- Bromberg came on without his
owing usual band but, with the assist-
°ment ance of bass player Tony Mar-
cur- kellis and local harmonicist Pe-
ws at ter "Madcat" Ruth, he gave the
ollow- crowd two especially long a n d
back entertaining 90-minute sets
though he confessed he was hav-
pub- ing some trouble with a cold.
olkies In the first set, he got into a
acked series of "police songs" - just
S
the
about any and all songs concern-
ing cops and crime that he and
his fellow musicians could re-
member.
One boosted the rousing chorus
"Judge please send me to the
electric chair" while "stealin' "
proclaimed: "Stealing back to
the same old use-to-be." He top-
ped them off with his own (and
George Harrison's) composition
"The Hold-Up" in which the rob-
ber justifies his way of life
with the humorous reasoning:
"Wealth is disease - I am the
cure."
A very expressive vocalist,
Bromberg would sometimes ac-
cent the lyrics with facial ex-
pressions or, more often, with
extraordinary riffs that took the
words right out of his mouth.
His exchanges with the run-
ning commentary of Madcat's
harmonica were particularly sa-
tisfying. Taken together, these
instruments along with the bass
gave a simple, John Wesly Hard-
ing favor to the arrangements
that was surprisingly adequate
cqnsidering the variety of t h e
music being played.
In between sets, Bromberg
admitted that, without his' us-
ual backup, he "was doing songs
that I've never done before."
He ; did little new material of
his own but said his new album,
Wanted Dead or Alive, would be
out in January. His last effort,
Demon in Disguise, is still doing
well as it 9ontains many of the
songs that have become favor-
ites in his repertoire.
Settling down a bit in the se-
cond set, he did some soul-search-
ing road songs that seemed to re-
fols'
flect some of his own exper-
iences lately. After a few fiddle
times, he went on to do his own
rendition of "Money" during
which he made remarks I i k e
"the guy who wrote this song
was so cheap he wouldn't tip his
hat" and that he was "funny
with his money - strange with
his change."
The audience joined in some of
the songs (at times even in tune)
and prompted Bromberg to ex-
claim: "It's sort of like Satur-
day night at a fraternity." The
quick and accurate answer from
the audience was "better."
As he closed his set with a
couple of his own songs, he cap-
t'red the whole spirit of the oc-
casion with the lines "the same
rowdy crowd that was here last
night is back again." And it
keeps happening again and again
whenever he hits town.
to be held
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FILM-Mediatrics presents Welles' Citizen Kane in Nat. Sci.
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Michigan A.
Squares:
Entertaining alternative
By CATHY REUTTER
Are you getting tired of going
to restaurants, movie theaters
and beer bashes for nightly en-
tertainment?
The Square Dance Club offers
an alternative. It, meets every
Monday evening from 8:00 to
10:30 in East Quad's South Din-
ing Room. The club calls itself
the University of Michigan A.
Squares.
It's too late in the term for new
dancers to join, but people are
welcome to come and watch. In
January. the club hopes to set up
its meetings so new people can
come and learn the steps for
the first hour and more experien-
ced dancers can dance for the
second half of the meeting.
Lloyd Marks, who is helping to
establish the club, says there are
a number of reasons why people
square dance. "Square dancing
is relaxing, it's a social function
and it requires no special skills
or talents. Besides, it's cheaper
than the movies." Ellen Fox, also
an avid dancer, adds that square
dancing is more of a co-operative
effort than a competition.
On most nights the club draws
two to four squares, 16 to 32 peo-
ple. They dance mostly western
style, but also do some dancing
,in rounds to popular music such
as "King of the Road."
According to Marks, the club
hopes to build up enough ex-
perience so that they can go to
other dances around the state,
and perhaps put on some demon-
strations at various athletic
events, much like what the gym-
nasts do before basketball games.
Many of the dancers are just
beginners, so caller Jim Baker
starts by explaining the basic
steps before he uses them. Oth-
ers are more experienced, and
some even wear traditional flar-
ing square dance skirts, although
blue jeans and sweatshirts 4 are
more common.
Caller Jim Baker, who volun-
teered to take the club through
the ropes, has been square danc-
ing since he was a sophomore in
high school. He started calling
five years ago and learns by
trial and error, practice and
from the advice of other callers.
Most square dancers don't lim-
it themselves to once a week
dances, however. Some dances
are held from 9:00 at night 'til
7:00 in the morning.
Square dance fanatics some-
times get a square (8 people) to-
gether and wake up a caller at
midnight. The square must then
dance until the caller gets tired,
which is often not until 4 or 5
a.m. Any one who does this
twice is eligible for the tradi-
ditional "Double Idiot Badge."
Callers are usually men and
call the steps from the man's po-
sition. Baker mentioned, how-
ever, that women usually call
round dances, where the entire
group forms a circle of alternat-
ing men and women.
Fox explains that there are
two main kinds of square dances,
the patter dance, which the call-
er makes up as he goes along,
or the more formalized dances
for which he has some set com-
commands already outlined.
Fox adds that square dancing
is not just a' recreation for home-
sick cowboys, but many dancers
are from the East as well. She
and Marks hail from New York
while Baker comes from the De-
troit area.
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