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Friday, September 8, 1972
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By LINDA ROSENTHAL
Festivals have come and gone
but the Ann Arbor Blues and
Jazz Festival 1972 "promises to
be among the most exciting and
unique ever," its planners pre-
dict. Kick-off time is tonight,
7:00, on the Otis Spann Memorial
Field at Huron High School.
The festival's high point is ex-
pected to be the formal dedica-
tion of the festival site to the
late blues pianist, Otis Spann..
The dedication is planned for
tomorrow at 4:30 P.M. A plaque
has been ordered which reads
(in part) "The people of Ann
Arbor, Michigan, in recognition
of the talent and genius of the
late Otis Spann, 'the sweet giant
of the blues' humbly dedicate the
Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festi-
val 1972 and the ground upon
which it stands to the Memory of
this great artist."
The upcoming festival, unique
in ways other than its dedication,
"is the only one of its kind being
held in the country," says Su-
zanne Young, a festival planner.
"There are rock concerts and
folk concerts but absolutely no
blues-jazz festivals anywhere,"
she adds.
Performers at this year's fes-
tival will include Pharoh Sanders,
Miles Davis, Luther Allison,
Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters,
and Archie Shepp.
According to Young, people
have been working hard to over-
come the problems encountered
with putting on past festivals. The
first two, held in 1969 and 1970
were artistic successes but fi-
nancial failures. Problems in-
cluded an over-abundance of high
priced artists coupled with in-
expensive tickets.
The main problem, according
to Young, was that "although
the 1970 workers were extremely
dedicated and were filled with
great intentions, they only had a
parttime staff on a walk-in basis.
What was needed was a profes-
sional full-time staff. This is
what we have."
Another unique facet of the
festival is community involve-
ment. Local service groups and
collectives have been active in
the handling of security, food,
sound and monitoring.
For example, a large-scale
food concession has been organ-
ized by the Tribal Council Food
Committee. "Our trucking, load-
ing, preparing and serving of the
food is done by people in the
community," Young explains. The
Indian Summer restaurant, Wolf-
moon Bakery and the Red Star
Sandwich Team have all been
participating.
In Young's opinion many in the
Ann Arbor community do not eat
properly. Because of this, festi-
val sponsors are "endeavoring to
educate them by providing good

food as well as "not so good
food-junk food."
Items such as coke, cigarettes
and ice cream will be sold in
addition to "solid" foods such as
hot rice and vegetable casserole,
cheese and cole slaw submarines
on whole wheat bread, juice and
fresh fruit.
It was this same idea of edu-
cation that influenced the line-up
of artists appearing. "The plan,"
Young says, "was to introduce
people from one familiar disci-
pline (blues in some cases, jazz
in others) to an unfamiliar,
though closely related musical
forms to raise their conscious-
ness."
"That is also why the festival
couples hard-core blues per-
formers with hard-core jazz mu-
sicians and with the more popu-
larly known blues-based artists,
such as Jr. Walker and Dr.
John," she adds.
Festival planners have been
working with Captain Conn, co-
ordinator for special services of
the Ann Arbor Police Depart-
ment, for the last six months.
Conn says no problems are an-
ticipated.
The festival was sorely missed
by much of the community last
year. But Young says most stu-
dent organizations were frighten-
ed by the debts incurred by past
festivals and the University did
not want the University Activities
Center to assume full respon-
sibility.
Then last winter, Rainbow
Multi-Media Corporation Presi-
dent Peter Andrews met with
John Sinclair of the Rainbow
People's Party to discuss the
possible resumption of the festi-
val
Fortunately they met up with
Jim Dykstra, who had just in-
herited a large sum of money
which he wanted to donate to the
community-particularly for a
project of a musical nature.
The three agreed that careful
planning plus expansion to in-
clude contemporary jazz could
insure the festival's success this
year.
All decided that the net pro-
ceeds would be fed back to the
community. Drug Help, the Free
People's Clinic, and the Psyche-
delic Rangers, organized three
years ago as a concert security
force, will all be paid for their
services. The Tribal Council Food
Committee will appropriate 20
per cent of the proceeds from
their food sales back to the com-
mittee as capital for next year's
park and winter food programs.
As a public service, Ann Arbor
radio station WNRZ and Detroit
radio station WABX have been
given free rights to broadcast
the festival.
It has already been decided
that five per cent of the proceeds

will go to Project Community, a
student organitation concerned
with community work; five per
cent to Trotter House, a black
student-center; ten per cent to
the Community Parks Program
and ten per cent to the People's
Ballroom.
The Rainbow Multi-Media Cor-
poration and backers will receive
the balance of the proceeds.
"I think we're going to have
15,000 people on the site all the

unique
time myself," Andrews predicts.
Series tickets covering the total
five shows Friday through Sunday
cost $15.00, while tickets for an
afternoon and evening show cost
$7.00, and separate evening
tickets cost $4.00. There will be
no separate afternoon tickets
sold.
Tickets can be obtained at the
Michigan Union, Salvation Rec-
ords, Carrot's Clothing, and in
the parking lot of the festival.

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