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The Michigan Daily Friday, June 10, 1988 Page 8
Benefit jazzes with triple treat
BY SHEALA DURANT Fair. Also performing Sunday will be implications. and are going to Europe this summer.
Baritone saxophonist "Doc" Cadeau a Vous - an aspiring young Finally, Sunday's concert series Grace saysthat their dedication pays
Thiscoming Sunday at the Bird Holladay will be the evening's quintet made up of University stu- will present the Community High They're outstanding players."
of PradseEclpse azzwil heheadliner. Holladay has worked with dents. The band's drummer and Jazz Ensemble under the direction of 'rousadnplys.
hosting a jazz benefit concert in an Eclipse on several occasions and was founder, Dave Campbell, comes Michael Grace. The six piece con- The concert will be open to all
effort to raise money for their 11thm most recently featured as part of their from a musical family which temporary ensemble is part of the ages and Eclipse Co-coordinator
f Frttrair conceyfrther1t Java and Jazz series last fall. This promoted his love for jazz. Campbell performing arts program at Commu- Sam Kaufman says "We've been
annual Art Fair concert series. extraordinary jazz performer has said that when the band started about nity High School. "It's good to know working hard this year to involve
The concert will be a sampling of performed with a wide range of four years ago times were tough. At that alternative programs like students in our concerts."
jazz from the artists "Doc" Holladay, legendary artists from Woody one time Cadeau a Vous had to resort Community High School's perform- The concert will be held Sunday,
Cadeau a Vous, and The Community Herman and Ella Fitzgerald to to playing Top 40 music because ing arts program allow for the most June 12, from 5 to 9p.m. at the Bird
High 1:45 Jazz Ensemble. With the Quincy Jones and Herbie Hancock. they weren't making enough money important aspect of the performing of Paradise, 207 S. Ashley. Tickets
exception of Holladay, all of the This summer he will go on a as jazz musicians. But last year the arts -individual self-expression. are $5 and are available at
above artists plus many more will be European concert tour with long- band decided to drop the Top 40 Grace said that the ensemble per- Schoolkids Records, PJ's Used
performing at Eclipse's open stage in time friend and fellow muscian, format and return to their first love forms about 60 times a year. They've Records, Discount Records, and at
front of the Union at this year's Art Dizzy Gillespie. - jazz - regardless of the financial won many state and national awards the door.
'The Flats': Irish play -
with universal appeal
old, both British and Irish, are ex- histories mirror each other in that the
BYDEBORAH COHEN plored. struggles for fundamental freedoms
As a founder of the Attic Theatre that exploded in the late '60s con-
Performance Network, dedicated in Detroit, Jim Moran has directed an tinue today. The gravity of the play's
to original and experimental theatre, Irish play almost every year since timeliness lies in the understanding
will play host to a visitor from 1979. He finds it refreshing to work that Ireland's situation in 1988 is not
Belfast, Ireland for the next three with Irish drama because it is filled very different from that in this 1969
weeks.The Flats, a play by Irishman with "immediate events that affect setting.
John Boyd, will be at 408 W. Wash- people's lives." Moran explains that As historical background, this
ington from June 9 throughJune 25. Irish theatre is very different from play is thorough and accurate; this
The play is set in Belfast, 1969 American theatre because "the Irish does not mean that The Flats is hu-
- the first year of British occupation are still fighting their revolution; morless. Moran assures that it is
in Ireland. The Donnellan family Irish theatre deals with very real "incredibly funny ... up until the
finds itself in the center of this situations." In contrast, American tragic ending. It it human and natural These Gary, Indiana, natives add reggae/Rasta rhythms to
political and social confusion. The theatre has the luxury to delve into to deal with tragedy using com- form their own brand of electrified blues.
Donnellan family and their friends are the absurdities of life, escaping the edy."The Flats is an amalgamation
torn between their allegiances to immediacy of denser realities. of the elements of comedy, tragedy,
country and community. More than Moran suggests that, as Ameri- politics, love and moral accountabil-
religious conflicts and class struggle cans, we will find many parallels be- ity. K n e eo t
tear apart this Northern Ireland town tween the Ireland of 1969 and the As varied as the emotional pull of
-- dynamics between the young and United States of that same time. Our this play is, so too are the actors
who create these moods. Professionalh1b
actors from the Detroit-Ann Arbor
area are involved in this production, e lue
as well as three actors from the au- BY TODD SHANKER gut-spilling blues-ooze, Albert
SDRLKS1 (ROCK & thor's homeland. University English King. King schooled Kinsey on the
Professor Leo McNamara is among he industrial city of Gary, fundamentals of attacking a 12-bar
ROLL the talents that bring an emotional Indiana has manufactured one of the blues solo. He would settle for
investment to this polemic drama. most talented blues families in the nothing less than every drop of soul
The playwright, a lifetime resi- world. Like a burst of smog from a young Donald could squeeze into
" RARE EUROPEAN POSTERS dent of Belfast, started his writing Gary steel factory, the Kinseys each three-chord thrust of lilting
career after his retirement. Respected emerged beginning with classic ostinato.
- MUSIC TOUR T-SHIRTS by both the Catholics and the bloozer Big Daddy Kinsey and con- After playing stone-blues wah-
" SUNGLASSES AND SUMMER CLOTHING Protestants, Boyd worked as a disc tinuing with his sons Donald, wah rhythm guitar on King's 1973
-NOW IN STOCK- jockey through the '50s and '60s. In Ralph and Kenneth. Big Daddy's LP I Wanna Get Funky and his
his seventies he has found fame as a offspring have joined with child- 1974 LP Live from Montreaux
R.BEATLE LED ZEPPELIN MISFITS go redRnPic ofr h
" REA LE .THE DOORS BOB MARLEY See Flats, Page 9 hood friend Ron Prince to form the Festival, Donald teamed with his
. THE CURE - DEPECHE MODE . NEW ORDER Kinsey Report, a band that pumps brother Ralph on drums and King's
" U2 . THE SMITHS - T.T. D'ARBY W Ecome fresh life into the traditional Delta bass-player, Busta Cherry Jones, to
GRATEFUL DEAD . PINK FLOYD AND MORE and Chicago blues traditions by in- form White Lightning. White
Students! terspersing roiling reggae/Rasta Lightning hoisted "Theme from
ASTDISTNCTIV COLLEGIATE n rhythms and churning funk grooves Shaft" funk licks and Leadbelly
HISYIG for Men W omen mntefntimo' a
S6 HA JSTY STS YI S ongwrithere D on j Ki y gunshot-guitars into the uncharted
Lead singer, guitarist, and realm of Afro-metal. The group be-
340 S. STATE ST. UPSTAIRS, ANN ARBOR 994-3888DAC LA Y s j ongwriter Donald Kinsey received came the first Black American act
30ppUPS 7AIS J MapleViag his first major break as a teenager, to sign with Island Records and
OPEN 7 DAYS ii&5 27M- after hooking up with the papa of See Blues, Page 9
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