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Musical fare served on Saturday nights m Late one Saturday evening while shambling along 13th Avenue in search of somewhere to go, the muf fled sounds of a live rock band float to you through the cold fog. In the distance, you see light pouring from windows you know should be dark. It’s well past closing time. The song is hauntingly familiar. Above the furious drums and elec trie guitars, a passionate yell carries the phrase "I will follow.” You follow. Inside, silhouettes move on a dance floor carved out of the tables and chairs, and people are sipping hot drinks. Under bright lights, a band is belting out U2. Mysteriously, a transformation has taken place tonight at that bastion of wholesomeness, the Campus Glenwood. Though well-known for its simple fare served in a relaxing environ ment, the Campus Glenwood isn’t open for just breakfast and lunch anymore. Since July, the restaurant has been bringing in live music Saturday nights, playing for a crowd that has averaged 30 a night, and filling the place “to the max” a couple times, according to Mike Langley, Campus Glenwood general manager. But Langley, who is also volunteer manager of the weekly event, says he is not trying to make it just another nightclub. “The point is not to pack the place out or make a lot of money,” he says. Instead, he would like it to be something that “promotes tolerance and understanding in an atmosphere of hope.” For Langley, a Christian, one bar rier of misunderstanding is between Christians and those who are not Christians. The two groups often cut themselves off from each other and rely on stereotypes, he says. “I’d like to have a place where both Christians and non-Christians can feel comfortable ancl see past the stereotypes,” he says. He tries to maintain this at mosphere by “taking the focus off alcohol” (two varieties of non alcoholic beer are served) and asking the musicians to “be sensitive and not play anything that might offend their audience.” Another fragmentation takes place over styles of music. Langley wants to “mix it up,” bringing in jazz, folk, rock, or blues musicians, play ing music that is original, contem porary or ancient. Langley is also aware of the dif ficulty amateur musicians can have getting started in the local music scene, especially if they would rather not play "top 40” music in the bars. So Langley says he is “open to any musician that comes in and will try to understand what they’re trying to do musically, whether amateur or experienced, as long as there’s quali Photo by Michael Clapp Ransom Dance is one of the bands featured at the Campus Glenwood restaurant on Saturday nights. ty there and a feeling there that they’re expressing in their music.” These criteria, quality and feeling, are a recurring theme for both this weekly event and the house band. Ransom Dance, which Langley is a member of. So far, Langley says, hours of agonizing effort have yet to produce a name for the weekly concerts, but a striking symbol has come to repre sent it: a heart pierced by the lines of a music staff. Dan Berggren, a “regular” at the Campus Glenwood concerts and oc casional performer, says the place is “schizophrenic. Sometimes it’s a rock ’n’ roll club and sometimes its a ’50s coffeehouse.” Although the acoustics could be better, Berggren says he finds the at mosphere “exciting and vibrant, where people are trying to com municate something. Everyone is hopeful and new." Langley says the four-man Ransom Dance plays "U2, Bruce Cockbum, Covers and a lot of original music.” Their own songs are "real melodic, but simple,” with definite U2 and Big Country influences, he says. "We enjoy playing music with a lot of energy, both lyrically and compositionally. We want the music to make people feel like we feel when we play," Langley says. He was "knocked out by U2,” he says, because he realized “you can really express yourself, and people will probably listen to you.” Ransom Dance began a year ago, with Langley on guitar, Colin Long Continued on Page 7B ' . . V • 691 MARKDOWN MARATHON! 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