Friday, September 8, 1972 UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT FEATURING THIS WEEK: FRI. & SAT., SEPT. 8 & 9 NEW HEAVENLY BLUE 9:30-1:30 WED.-SAT., SEPT. 13-16 DETROIT. THE MICHIGAN DAILY Pocge Three THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Blues-Jazz Fest appears Od444eay 208 W. Huron LUNCHES DAILY_ FALL TERM BOWLING LEAGUES FORMING SIGN UP NOW-UNION LANES OPEN- 1 1 a.m. thru.12 midnite Mon, thru Thurs. 11 a.m. thru 1 a.m. Fri. and Sat. 1 p.m. thru 12 midnite Sundays L NOW ! DIAL 8-6416 Daily Photo by JUDKIS Howlin' Wolf . on inspired blend of fact and fantasy. It leaps backwards and forwards in space and time with utter abandon . . . from the grimness of a German P.O.W. camp in winter to the lush- ness of a geodesic dream house-complete with pneumatic dream girl. FOR THIS TRIP, ONE MUST FASTEN HIS SEAT BELT AND HOLD ON TIGHT!" -Arthur Knight, Saturday Review When in Southern California visit Universal Studios 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. 1 i WINNER 1972 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL JURY PRIZE AWARD Only American Film to be so Honored A GEORGE ROY HILL-PAUL MONASH PRODUCTION SLAUGHTERHOUSE -F=IVE -one of the daring, original, es ever Oade: UesY .r.iMICHAEL SACKS -RON LEBMAN "*yLMIE PERRINE lmwfe wtvKURT VONNESUT.J.. Op~bmbw . wswrlfwmoECHNCLOfl' Daily Photo by TERRY McCARTHY Luther Allison ![3TtICTID R Urvd# t Y e a .e p.0"Yn,,qp P.ren 0rAd nGuri- Daily Photo by TOM GOTTLIEB Muddy Waters _ _ _ _ __. Huron Valley National Bank Announces ss' x : rpj .i}: _; b 'y1 Yi" : . ! : .. ' r .: i s. . >':. :. .. .' . X.- !'' i . , . '.t Bummed out on car repairs? So are we but we do offer no rip off service VW-Corvair-GM specialist Major or Minor repairs Diagnostic service 663-2441 MSC MODIFIED SPORTS CARS of ANN ARBOR NEW LOCATION 1150 Rosewood off S. 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