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Page 6 Portland Observer M ay 28. 1981 S an d hi and T h ad d Spaa - Sky 's T he L im it - tro u b a d o u rs o f the eighties. (Photo: Dan Kjerne) THE SKY'S THE LIMIT Hy \athaniel Scott Sinta m odels "Q u e e n s G o w n ," d esig n ed and m ade by Bobby Fouther. The gown, including many other beautiful Afrikar, inspired clothing will be modeled Sunday, May 31st, at "On the Rocks." AFRIKAN EXPERIENCE IN FASHIONS /fi A vcH'i/sz 4 skari ‘ ‘ On I he Rocks,” located at 15 N.W 6th, w ill host ‘ ‘ The Herero Dancers," of Portland, Oregon. The show will feature some of the best creative African dancing, seen fo r sometime in Portland. Throughout the summer, they w ill be presenting numerous shows in and outside the com m unity, as part of their effort to journey to the continent o f Africa. The trip is an international a ffa ir with various dance and cultural groups par ticipating. Once in A frica, the group w ill studs African dance forms, concep ts as they relate to culture, politics, economics and the spiritual world'. A ll proceeds from p rio r and previous shows w ill go toward making this trip possible. According the Bobby I outlier, the trip w ill "enable this group of Black artists to bring back to Portland, a new level o f cultural awareness, as it is now being shared by artists on the international level. In addition to the dancers, there will be a tashion show during inter m ission, featuring costumes bv Bobby I outher. According to ex perts of African culture, Bobby ranks w iih the best. The show w ill start at 6:00 p m.. May 31st. 1 ickets are $3.00. I here will be door prizes. Ticket'are going last, so get yours now and help support this group of dedicated artists. The meeting was the Saturday Market, followed by marriage and a cross country tour, and somewhere along the way, they came up with the name, "SA;v’s The Limit. ” ".SAi ’v The Lim it, ” is the singing and play ing duo o f Thadd and Sandhi Spae, troubadours of the eighties. Thadd hails from the West t oast, San Diego. California and Sandhi is east coast vintage -- Richmond, Virginia, play ing music from the 30s and 40s and as Sandhi puts it, “ Any way you slice it. what we do is jazz.” from street corners, parks, wedding receptions, clubs or anywhere music is appropriate and appreciated, this unique blending o f voices...Sandhi (five octaves), and I liadd (guitar, I rombone and Mandolin and main instruments combined with his voice as point...counterpoint), stirs the emotions with funk and stuff that’s spelled out soul; soul with a purpose that was driven to the core when Sandhi said, " I feel that our music is to help people have a good time rather than giving a message o f some k in d ," which was quickly syncopated by I hadd’ s “ Mostly we are trying to make our music an ex pression of our relationship." I liadd, a writer, arranger-composer, has written in excess of 300 songs, in cluding two marches -- one for 19 pieces. Sandhi, whose main instrument is her voice, also plays flu te . G uitar, Autoharp and Dulcimar, (an Appalachian folk instrument that has four strings) as a wav o f trying to capture and present the elusive haunting qualities an artist hears and feels. S A i’v The lim it , is an interracial cross-cultural blending o f harmonic structures that weaves and bend' in music and words; words that borders on the verge of philosophy. Sandhi said, "m y conception o f race is. if we are cut, we all bleed the same color," with I liadd adding, " Amen to that." The eighties promises to be a turbulent decade, (Reaganite, space shuttles, Atlanta s mushroom ol pain and sorrow hanging like a weeping vine, and more closely to home, racism that has sprung from its cocoon), all pointing to the vivid necessity tor occasional distractions ot soul unification and spiritual uplifting that will solidity and infuse, SA i s The / m i l l . Thadd and Sandhi, "SA i 'v The I u n i t , "endeavors to do benefits, social gathered lunclions, clubs, as with their appearance at ( ) ’ (. onnors sAA Alder. I ridav and Saturday. May 22 and 23rd. I he beat goes on and on and on, plusating its throbbing melody and telling its storv vviih the connotation, the SA i ’.v The I unit. I liadd and Sandhi Spae. a dynamite duo, working lor the betterment ol ihe whole. Brought To You Every Week By A M E R IC A N S T A TE BA NK The inventor o f the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, found telephones so annoying later in his life that he had his own phone removed from his home. • The total area of England is smaller than the state o f Colorado. • Beethoven was able to compose immortal music even though his own deafness prevented him from hearing what he was composing. / / / / t American State Bank AN INDEPENDENT BANK / t ? Head O ffice 2 7 3 7 N. E. 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