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The Arts
Bluegrass band to play “down-home” music
By M. Ekholm
Of The Print
A free concert featuring
country, folk and bluegrass
music will be held at
Clackamas Community Col­
lege on December 8, in the
Community Center from 7-9
p.m. The band is called Cabin
Fever and has thirty members.
During the concert smaller
groups will emerge and feature
their own names and iden­
tities.
The music department will
be sponsoring the concert
which will be directed by
science and music teacher at
the College, Bob Misley. “It
will be an evening of down­
home country music to set
your toes a-tapping,” said
Misley. The concert will
feature fiddles, mandolins,
banjos and guitars. Songs will
range from old country stan­
dards to traditional folk
music, special Irish folk songs,
and of course, some bluegrass
music,” said Misley.
The Cabin Fever Band has
performed around the com­
munity at various community
centers and civic functions
such as country and art fairs
and Fourth of July celebra­
tions. Misley said that the
band has also played at the old
Paramount theater and for
Trailblazer pre-game and half­
time shows.
The Cabin Fever Band
members range in age from 12
to senior citizens. “Members
come from all walks of life,”
said Misley. “We have
students,
' construction
teachers,
workers,
housewives, farmers, doctors,
and people who are in
business.” One of the bands to
form from Cabin Fever is Spr­
ingwater, which as become
well known throughout the
The Clackamas-based Cabin Fever Band entertains at a recent concert.
now and some of the origianl said Misley.
One does not have to be
members are still involved.
proficient
on an instrument to
“Even though the class is not
enroll
in
the
class. “The class
offered in the summer, class
motto,” stated Misley, “is a
members still get together to
a good
perform and enjoy music,” big smile
attitude.”
metropolitan area.
The band practices at the
College on Saturdays under
the class title of Country
Folk/Bluegrass. The class has
been going on for four years
Fair to offer Christmas ideas
During the week of Dec.
8-15 the Environmental Learn­
ing Center (ELC) will be
hosting two Christmas
decorating classes.
The ELC will also be
holding an Oregon Christmas
Crafts and Products Gift
Shoppe during the week.
On Dec. 8 from 9 a.m. -
noon a class on making
wreaths of cones and pods will
be taught by Sidney Strange
and a wheat weaving course
will be taught by Irma Sullivan
on Dec. 15 from 10 a.m. -
noon.
featured include filberts and
filbert recipes, as well as
wreaths made of grapevine,
herbs, seeds and pods.
“The Crafts Gift Shoppe
will have a lot of real quality
items such as wreaths and
other Christmas-related pro­
ducts,” James Dalton, educa­
tional coordinator and
biologist for the ELC said.
“There will also be other non­
Christmas items displayed and
sold there, such as filbert pro­
ducts, local honey, wood carv-
ing and artist’s paintings,” he
added.
Registration fees for each
class are $5 plus material fees.
The amount of fees depends
on the instructor and the
materials they provide.
Local artists will be display­
ing pottery, paintings, prints
and sculptures for sale during
the week while other local
craftsmen will display
Christmas gift items at the
ELC through the Crafts Gift
Shoppe.
The Gift Shoppe will be
open from noon - 6 p.m. dur­
ing the week. Oregon products
£ S
YOUNG CHILDREN ARE especially drawn to the homemade
► stuffed animals at the Crafts Fair in the Community Center. To-
¿day r, is the last day of the fair.
x Cans film festival tonight
We cater lunches
and dinners
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Cafeteria located in
Community Center building
To find out more,
call 657-8400, ext. 265.
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In coordination with the
fourth annual Cans Film
Festival admission prices
tonight at most luxury theaters
will be donations of canned
» food. Theaters are showing all
films for the price of any cann­
ed good with the suggestion
that donations be comparable
to the cost of admission.
Actor Ed Asner, best known
for his role in “Lou Grant”
arrived in Portland last week
to promote the festival. A
news conference was held with
Asner December 1 to kick off
the project.
. Sponsors are projecting a
goal of 50,000 pounds of food
to distribute amoung low in­
come households in the greater
Portland area. Last year the
event collected 39,510 pounds
of food for the estimated
100,000 people in need of
emergency food. The number
of people who had asked for
emergency food in the first six
months of 1984 alone had
already surpassed 200,000.
Any type of canned food is
appreciated but the sponsors
of the event said that canned
meat and fish are badly need­
ed.
Clackamas Community College