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About What's happening. (Eugene, OR) 1982-1993 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1983)
MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC Elisabeth Cotton will be at the CCPA (WOW Hall) with Mike Seeger on Satur day, October 15th. Elisabeth Cotton and Mike Seeger at the WOW Hall Together Elisabeth Cotton was born in 1893 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. When she was nine she worked to earn money for her own guitar. By age 11 she wrote Freight Train, a song that just about every folk singer now has as part of her/his repertoire. She and her brothers and sister played and sang music together and each would make up songs to call their own. At age 15 she was married, found work, and put her guitar away. It was half a century before she returned to it. By coincidence, she met Ruth Seeger and her husband Charles, a noted folk scholar. She took a job in their home and it was the Seeger children, Mike and Peg gy, who discovered “Libba's” musical gifts and encouraged her to perform in concert. She thus began a new career in her mid sixties accompanying Mike Seeger and the New Lost City Ramblers to the coffee houses and folk festivals that blossomed around the country in the late fifties. Mike Seeger has been the lead ing performer-collector of rural southeastern traditional music and is known both as a soloist and a founding member of the vanguard old-time string band, the New Lost City Ramblers. His music is the homemade folk or traditional music of mountain farmers, mill workers and coal miners of the rural southeast. His songs range from unaccom panied English ballads to moun tain breakdowns, blues and early American rural songs. He plays fiddle, banjo, guitar, dulcimer, mandolin, autoharp, jews harp, pan pipes and harmonica. He and Elisabeth Cotton will per form at the CCPA (WOW Hall) on Saturday, October 15 at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 in advance, $6 day of show. Tickets are available at the WOW Hall, EMU Main Desk (UO), Ballad eer Music, and the House of Records. Chamber Music Series Opens The Concord String Quartet will open the 1983-84 University of Oregon Chamber Music Series on Saturday, Oct. 15. This American chamber en semble will perform at 8 pm in Beall Concert Hall. The program includes Haydn’s Quartet in G Major, Op. 33, No. 5, Robert Hall Lewis’ Quartet No. 3 and Beethoven’s Quartet in F, Op. 135. Members of the Concord String Quartet are violinists Mark Sokol and Andrew Jen nings, violist John Kochanowski and cellist Norman Fischer. The Concord String Quartet began its career in 1971 with the receipt of the Walter W. Naum burg Chamber Music Award. In 1977 the ensemble was awarded an Emmy for its Public Broad casting System telecast, “The Concord String Quartet Plays Bartok and Haydn.” Season tickets for the Cham ber Music Series are still on sale for $38 and $24, depending on seat location. The series includes six other chamber concerts. There is a 20% discount for UO students. Single ticket sales will begin the evening of the concert. Single tickets may be purchased at the Beall Concert Hall Box Office for $6 and $4. For more information call 686-5678. Singer/ Harpist Mary O’Hara at Hult On Thursday, Oct. 20, clas sical folk singer/harpist Mary O’Hara will appear for the first time in Oregon. Curtain time in the Hult Center’s Soreng Theatre is 7:30 pm. Having recently returned from a sensational tour of Australia with sold-out performances in the Sydney Opera House and the new Melbourne Concert Hall, Miss O’Hara’s Hult Center per formance will mark the end of a two-month North American tour which reached from Van couver, British Columbia to San Francisco. tonsdcred one or me world S most enchanting classical folk । . 1g... AIIr .! singers, Miss O’Hara is renown ed for the purity and clarity of her voice and for the warmth of her personality. Earlier this year she recorded her latest album (a digital recording), Mary O ’Hara at Carnegie Hall. The album in cludes songs from the last five centuries in English, Gaelic and Scots Gaelic. Her book, A Song for Ireland, has been at the top of the bestseller lists in the United Kingdom and in Aus tralia and provides the reader with stories and beautiful pic tures of Ireland. Immediately prior to her North American concert tour, Miss O’Hara was busy putting together thirteen programs for her own television series which will be aired this fall. Ticket prices for this special evening with Mary O’Hara are $10.50 and $8.50. For more information about this per formance, call 687-5000 or visit your local ticket outlet. 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Siegel’s five-piece band, fresh off an American tour, will share the concert with the Don Latar ski Trio. Siegel is leaving Eugene to pursue a more active career in the recording industry. Tickets and information are available by calling (503) 687-5000 or by visiting one of the Hult Center’s twenty-two Oregon ticket outlets. Starting Ooer New and Nearly New Apparel • Antiquities • Adornments Featuring ... Women's and Men's Quality Contemporary and Vintage Apparel Get more for your money... 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