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Intricate rhythms to ring out
Young musicians
bring jazz to campus
MATFSHEMPERT
Staff Writer
Clackamas will host two Jazz
Festivals in the next two week
ends: The 30th Annual Instru
mental Jazz Festival directed by
Tom Wakeling, and the Clacka
mas Community College Vocal
Jazz-Fest directed by Marti
Mendenhall.
Instrumental Jazz Festival
The Instrumental Jazz Festival
will be held this Friday and Sat
urday. Middle school, junior
high and high school kids from
Oregon, Washington, Idaho and
California will come to compete.
The bands are divided into
middle school/junior high and
high school categories, with fur
ther divisions based on school
size. The three highest scoring
bands in each division will com
pete in a playoff in the evenings,
with the middle school/junior
high and class A high school di
visions playing on Friday
evening, and class AA, AAA
and AAAA high schools play
ing on Saturday evening.
Awards and certificates will be
given to first, second, and third
place contestants and outstand
ing musicians. The Outstanding
Musician plaque and LeRoy
Anderson Sweepstakes trophy
will also be awarded.
Lonnie Cline, Jeff Homan and
Gordon Lee will hold clinics dur
ing the festival.
The festival starts at 8 a.m.
each day with the playoffs start
ing at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 for
an all day pass. Seniors and chil
dren under 6 are free.
Vocal Jazz Festival
The Vocal Jazz Festival will be
held on Friday, March 23. High
school vocal Jazz groups from
around the area will gather to
perform in a non-competitive
environment.
The performances are from 8
a.m. until 6 p.m., when Clacka
mas’ own Mainstream Jazz group
will be performing in concert.
Also making guest performances
are local jazz musicians bassist
Tom Wakeling, pianist Steve
Christopherson and drummer
William Thomas, as well as re
cent Jazz Hall of Fame inductee
and winner of the Jazz Lifetime
Achievement Award Nancy
King, who is Student Festival
Coordinator Trecia Courry’s
“idol” as well.
Tickets range from $5 for
adults and $3 for students for
only the day concerts, $10 for
adults and $6 for students for
only the evening concerts, and
$12 for adults and $7 for students
for all day.
Volunteers are needed to help
guide the bands, run conces
sions and take money for the
concerts. Volunteers will get free
admission. To volunteer, call
Marti Mendenhall at (503) 656-
6598 ext. 5151.
Join Diane Syrcle, the director of education and outreach for the Portland opera, for a free brown-
bag discussion of Dialogues of the Carmelites tomorrow, noon-1 p.m., Gregory Forum, room
108A. Economy tickets for $13 each are available from the Connections Program by registering
for courses WKS 001-02 for the lunch and WKS 001-003 for the dress rehearsal. Take your add/
drop form to the registration office in the Community Center for the dress rehearsal which takes
place Thursday, March 22, In the Keller (Civic) Auditorium from 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Journalist reads from memoir
President Ronald Reagan once
called her “one of the sharpest con
servative minds in the country.”
She was managing editor of the
National Review magazine that
was founded by her brother Will
iam F. Buckley. She was a reporter
for United Press Radio during
World War II, and Priscilla Buckley
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is coming to Clackamas Community
College in April as a writer-in-resi-
dence.
Buckley, 79, will read from her au
tobiography, A String of Pearls,
which focuses on her years as a wire
service reporter in Paris.
“She has a lot to say about jour
nalism, politics and being an inde
pendent woman. She’s a great stoiy
teller,” said CCC English Instructor
Kate Gray, who organized the an
nual writer-in-residence visit to the
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Buckley will read from her book
at 7 p.m., Thursday, April 12 in the
Gregory Forum. She will conduct a
workshop with CCC journalism stu
dents on Friday morning. The pub
lic is invited to a brown bag discus
sion with Buckley at noon on Fri
day, April 13,in Room 127ofthe Bill
Brod Community Center.
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