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TOM GRANT BAND TO OPEN FOR ANITA BAKER
AT 1990 MT. HOOD FESTIVAL OF JAZZ
The Tom Grant Band has been signed
to the 1990 Mt. Hood Festival of Jazz.
The popular Portland-based quartet and
national jazz attraction will open the
Anita Baker concert Friday, August 3,
according to an announcement by Paul
Kreider, Festival of Jazz Foundation
President. The Festival is August 3-5
outdoors at Mt. Hood Community Col­
lege.
The band, which includes keyboar­
dist Tom Grant, guitarist Dan Balmer,
drummer Carlton Jackson and bassist
Jeff Leonard, was recently signed to the
Verve/Forecast label, a subsidiary of
recording giant Polygram, and has re­
leased its first recording on the label,
“ Edge of the W orld,” has moved into
the top 20 on Billboard’s jazz chart,
getting strong airplay from several of
the cuts.
The Tom Grant Band, which last
played the Mt. Hood Festival of Jazz
three years ago, plays the 1990 Festival
this summer as part o f a touring sched­
ule that includes the Amsterdam Jazz
Festival in Holland and a coast-to-coast
tour of the U.S. that puts the quartet in
prestigious jazz venues in New York,
Chicago, and other cities.
Grant’s signing as support act for
The Friday Night Event’s Grammy­
winning singer Anita Baker rounds out
the mainstage lineup of jazz acts. Gates
open at 5 p.m. Friday with the perform­
ance starting at 8:00 p.m.
The Saturday Festival schedule is:
Tuck & Patti, A1 Hirt, Larry Carlton,
Leroy Vinnegar Quartet, Stanley Jor­
dan, Johnny Griffin and the Tony Ben-
nettTrio. The Sunday lineup is: Mongo
Santamaria, Harper Brothers, Michael
Franks, Ray Bryant, the Terry Gibbs
Dream Band featuring Buddy DcFranco
and Mel Torme.
Some reserved-seat tickets to the
Anita Baker/Tom Grant performance
at the 1990 Festival arc available now,
according to Lin Murakami, Festival
Director. All seats available are in the
B section. The A section is already sold
out, she said, and general admission
tickets are going strong. Reserved seats
can be purchased at all G.I. Joe’s Tick­
etmaster box offices on June 2, 1990.
General admission tickets to the
Saturday and Sunday, August 4-5, per­
formances of the Jazz Festival are on
sale at all Ticketmaster outlets.
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Pulse & Impluse to Premiere
Music of Black Composer
Pulse & Impulse, June 8-10 at the
Intermediate Theatre, will feature not
only a multi-cultural smorgasbord of
contemporary dance, but also the world
premiere of new music by two African-
American composers. Tickets for this
two-part showcase can be purchased by
calling the Performing Arts Center at
248-4496. Significant discounts are
available for groups by calling 255-
2783.
The music o f Terry Snowden will be
featured on Program B, Saturday, June 9
at8:00orSunday,June9at2:00. Terry,
trained at the prestigious Peabody Insti-
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Terry Snowden
tute of Music, has composed a piece
called Novena for choreographer Joe
Morales. Novena was inspired by Joe’s
memories of his Catholic upbringing.
Working from Joe’s ideas, Terry chose
a haunting Gregorian Chant as a theme
and developed the score around i t
Terry got hooked on music when he
joined his high school choir in Balti­
more at the age of 16. A sa scholarship
student at the Peabody Institute in the
early and mid-70s, he fought an uphill
battle with the inherently conservative
world o f academic music. During a
series of Bi-centennial tributes to
American composers in 1976, he pro­
duced his first concert of music by
Black composers. Overcoming tremen­
dous resistance to the idea, the concert
in the end was the best-attended per­
formance ever produced at Peabody.
Since coming to Portland in 1984,
Terry has received grants from several
agencies to write music for the Virtuosi
della Rosa, the Lewis and Clark Cham­
ber Choir and Orchestra, the Portland
Gay Men’s Chorus, and the Concord
Choir. He has organized several festi­
vals of music by Black composers and
teaches private lessons in composition
and keyboard. He has also been the
Music Director at a number of our local
churches.
Novena promises to be a moving
integration of the art of two unique
individuals. Joe’s lifelong involvement
with dance includes years of touring
nationally and a three-year stay in Los
Angeles where he performed in several
movies and on the Carol Burnett Show.
He’s been in Portland lor 11 years and
is currently on the faculty at Dancers’
Workshop where he leaches Jazz and
Tap, as well as working as a guest
instructor for Jefferson’s theater de­
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SESAME STREET LIVE Kicks Off Tenth
Season with Brand New Show
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Hours: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Mon- Fri
10:00 am - 2:00 pm Saturday
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African American Festival
presents
Angela Winbush
First Annual NW
Gospel Jubilee
at the
Schnitzer Concert Hall
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1037 SW Broadway
Portland, Oregon
Saturday, June 16,1990
7:00 p.m.
Portland Memorial Coliseum
Wednesday, June 13 through Sunday, June 17
Tickets on sale NOW!
at all G. I. Joe/Ticketm aster Centers, Memorial Coliseum Box
Office. Performing Arts Center and Civic Auditorium.
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is scheduled to appear at the
Starry Night Saturday, June 9.
The show, starting at 8:00 pm,
promises to be an exciting event.
These Sesame Street Live
shows are as entertaining
and happy a couple o f
hours as I spend each
year. You’ll enjoy
yourself with or with­
out kids’*
The ticket outlets are:
Portland Memorial
Coliseum
1401 N.Wheeler
3 1 NW FIRST
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Portland Memorial Coliseum
Wednesday, June 13 ................................................. 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, June 14 ..................................................... 7:30 p.m.
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All seats $3.00 OFF!
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Saturday, June 16 ............................ 11:00 a.m.* & 3:00 p.m?
Sunday, June 17 .................................1 00 p.m.* & 4:30 p.m.*
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under save $ I 50 at
starred performances
Tickets are on sale for $9.50
and $15.50 each. Prices
include user fee and service
charge. When ordering 10
or more tickets, the prices
are: $7.50 and $13.50.
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Civic Auditorium
SW 3rd & Clay
Performing Arts
Center
1111 SW Broadway
SESAME STREET LIVE is kick­
ing off its 10th season and 14th produc­
tion with the silliest show ever. You’ll
be snapping your fingers and moving to
the beat when the all-new SESAME
STREET LIVE production of “ Silly
Dancing” comes to the PORTLAND
M EM ORIAL COLISEUM , Pordand,
Ore., Wednesday, June 13 through
Sunday, June 17 for seven perform­
ances.
VEE Corporation, a Minneapolis-
based company, presents SESAME
STREET LIV E’s “ Silly Dancing” in
conjunction with Children’s Television
Workshop (CTW) and Jim Henson
Productions.
SESAME STREET
LIVE, known for outstanding family
entertainment, was founded in 1980 by
Vincent E. Egan, president and execu­
tive producer, with the goal of creating
a theatrical touring show that would set
new standards for quality entertainment
VEE Corporation has expanded dra­
matically over the years by developing
in-house marketing and poduction
departments and handling every detail
from a show’s conception to it’s com-
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For all group sales,
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PERFORM ANCE SCHEDULE:
Wednesday, June 13
7:30 pm
Thursday, June 14
7:30 pm
Friday, June 15
7:30 pm
Saturday, June 16 11:00 am 3:00 pm
Sunday, June 17 1:00 pm 4:30 pm
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pletion. Each show is produced in
Minneapolis at an average cost of $1.5
million. VEE Corporation productions
have played in more than 200 markets
and entertained more than 18 million
people in the United States, Canada,
Europe, Australia and Puerto Rico.
“ Silly Dancing” was written by
Norman Stiles, head writer for CTW,
produced by Bob Shipstad, directed
and choreographed by Diane Arnold,
musically directed by Terry Esau and
Rob Barrett, Jr., artistically directed by
Jim Waters and lighting direction by
David Agress.
Tickets are on sale for “ Silly Danc­
ing’ ’ at the Coliseum box office and all
TicketMaster locations. Tickets are
$10.00 and $8.00 with a $1.50 discount
for children 12 and under. For more
ticket information, please call 248-4496.
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