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THE SUMMER DAILY
Thursday, July 19, 1 973
'HIGH ENERGY BOOGYING
Blues, Jazz Festival ahead
By GLORIA JANE SMITH
An event not to be missed this
fall is the second annual Ann
Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival,
scheduled for the second week-
end in September at Otis Spann
Memorial Field.
The three-day festival, which
has been appropriately c a l l e d
"the biggest party of the year,"
brings together nearly 15,000 peo-
ple of all descriptions for over
30 hours of layed-back listening
and high energy boogying.
Produced by the Rainbow
Multi-Media Corporation (a non-
profit organization headed by lo-
cal concert promoter Peter An-
drews and Rainbow People's
Party leader John Sinclair), the
festival provides an unequaled
opportunity to become totally
saturated with not only some of
the best, but some of the most
progressive blues and jazz mu-
sic available today.
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THIS YEAR'S line-up of ar-
tists scheduled to perform at the
festival includes: Ray Charles
and his Raelettes, Charles Min-
gus, Freddie King, Ornette Cole-
man, John Lee Hooker, Johnny
Otis, Luther Allison, Sun Ra
and his Arkestra, Lucille Spann,
Big Walter Horton, Yusef La-
teef, Leon Thomas, and Count
Basie and his Orchestra.
The mood at the- outdoor fes-
tival site last year was commun-
al and down-home easy-going.
Provisions made by festival or-
ganizers made it almost living-
room comfortable. A large screen
at the front of the field provided
everybody with a ctose-up video
visiomn of musicians (This year
there's be two larger screens in
living color.); substantial food
including vegetables, brown rice,
and yogurt were available at non-
rip-off prices; and natural neces-
sities were readily available.
A team of Drug Help workers,
familiar with dealing with over-
dose problems, were on duty
throughout the festival. Aiding
them were the festival's own
youth - based patrol called the
Psychedelic Rangers: Both will
be working at this year's festival.
FOR THOSE unable to make it
on down to the festival site, ac-
tivities were broadcast live over
two area stations. This year, Na-
tional Public Radio and its 151
m e m b e r stations, including
WDET in Detroit as well as pos-
sible other stations, will carry the
festival.
The present festival is a revival
of the original Ann A r b o r
Blues Festival, which after two
years of artistic (but not financ-
ial) success lost its University
sponsorship. After one summer
passed, Rainbost Multi-Media de-
cided to fill the void by launch-
ing the first Ann Arbor Hlutes
and Jazz Festival.
The two festivals, according t'
Andrews, are v e r y definitely
"different". The current festival
is more community than Univer-
sity oriented. "We are co-spon-
sored by Project Community," he
explains. Student organizations,
which had been the mainstay of
the first festival attempt, showed
no interest in supporting the cur-
rent festival.
WHILE Andrews feels that the
festival is enjoyment - "We try
to make the audience feel as
good as they can" - he also sees
a serious side to the affair. "It's
an educational experience," he
says. "We've pioneered jazz, pre-
sented groups more contempor-
ary than other festivals have."
OTHER ARTISTS scheduled to
perform at this year's festival in-
clude: Roosevelt Sykes, J.B. Hut-
to and the Hawks, CJQ, The Rev-
olutionary Ensemble, H o u s -
ton Stackhouse with Hoe Willie
Wilkens and the King Biscuit
Boys, Victoria Spivey, Hound
Dog Taylor and the Hlouiserock-
ers, Infinite- Sound with Roland
Young and Glenn Howell, Home-
sick James, Mighty Joe Young
Blues Band, plus the giants of
Detroit blues in a special Satur-
day afternoon concert.
Tickets, priced at $16 (Only tic-
kets for the entire series will be
sold.) for Ann Arbor residents
and students and $20,000 for out-
of-town friends are available by
mail order at Box 381 Ann Arbor,
Mi. 48107.
Photo by TERRY McCARTHY
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