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Seattle’ s Folklit'e Festival Set
For Memorial Day Weekend
Jigsaw, contem porary folk m usic band, will preform at Folklife Festival.
Celebrate world cultures at one
of the nation's finest ethnic and
traditional arts festivals. The North
west Folklife Festival returns to the
Seattle Center for its 25th year and
offers an incredible lineup of dance
and musical performances, art ex
hibits, a vast international market
filled with handmade crafts and
imported items, traditional food and
a whole lot more.
The Festival packs all the enter
tainment and fun into four days over
Memorial Day weekend, May 24-
27, from 11 a.m. to midnight at the
Seattle Center.
Admission is free thanks to sup
port from Northwest Folklife and the
Center.
The Northwest Folklife Festival
provides unique opportunities to
celebrate and participate in ethnic
and traditional art from around the
world.
Each year, the Festival attracts
nearly 200,000 visitors and hosts
over 6,000 participants represent
ing more than 100 countries.
Japanese taiko drums, Scandi
navian Hambos, Eastern European
line dances, African marimbas, old-
time fiddle music. Native Ameri
can storytellers and more fill the
Festival’s 17 stages with over, 1,000
dance and music performances and
activities.
Mabuhay, Pilipinas! is the title
of Northwest Folklife’s 1996 folk
lore project and translates to “Long
Live the Philippines.” This year,
the Northwest Folklife Festival pro
vides a look at the rich and diverse
cultural heritage o f Filipinos and
Filipino Americans.
The project includes music and
dance performances, an all-day sym
posium addressing important Fili
pino issues and a variety of exhibits
in the Folklife Museum.
L-R: Benny Wilson, Paul Knaulls, Mel Brown Ron Steen. In front,
Hank Swarn.
One of I995’s most successful
jazz events was Portland’s first Taste
of Jazz, a leisurely cruise up the
W illam ette River on a 3-deck
sternwheeler with three dozen of the
city’s best jazz players delighted a
sellout crowd of 450.
With the immense success of the
first event, the sponsors immediately
went to work on Taste of Jazz 2, now
set for Sunday, May 19, again aboard
the Columbia Gorge sternwheeler.
Boarding time is 3:35 p.m. Sun
day,May 19,atS.W. Frontand Stark,
alongside Waterfront Park. The Pat
O ’Neal Riverboat jazz Band will
Marilyn Scott: Take Me With You
“Marilyn Scott, a power-packed
engine blast with first class musical
pipes, is a turbo-charged gem.”
-Jazz Times
Combining her passions for jazz,
pop and Brazilian flavors with a nat
ural affinity for classic R&B, the
veteran vocalist draws from myriad
of influences to create a sound and
style completely her own.
Scott’s Warner Bros. Records
debut album “Take Me With You”
offers a roadmap to the soul o f a true
original, with a career as dynamic as
the songs she sings. Co-produced by
longtime cohorts Russell Ferrante
and Jim my H aslip (o f the
Yellowjackets), with select tracks
helmed by Michael Colina, Ray
Bardani, Brazilian singer/guitarist
that's focused on the future.
“I’ve been fortunate to work with
Russell and Jimmy for so many
years,” says Scott o f the trio’s con
stantly evolving creative process.
“We all have the same tastes, same
values and an instinctive knack for
knowing what works and what
doesn’t. Havingtheircapableartistic
input behind me helps raise my own
standards several notches. We wrote
new tunes, but also dug deep for
older material which we could apply
a 90’s arrangement to.”
Marilyn Scott
Dori Caymmi and the legendary
George Duke, the collection brims
with snapshots o f Scott’s past and
possesses a socially conscious eye
Oregon Lotlcrg Building Art Opportunity
Ihe Oregon Arts Commission is
conducting a ‘Call for Artists’ to
submit proposals for the inclusion of
public art for the Lottery Building in
Salem, OR. Three sites for the inclu
sion o f public art for the Lottery
Building have been identified with a
total budget of $63,000 for public
art. The deadline for this opportuni
ty is Friday, May 31,1996.
Visual artists, artist teams and
craftspeople, both emerging and es
tablished, in all medias are eligible
an encouraged to apply. Proposals
will be selected by an independent
selection committee composed of,he
project architect, visual arts profes
sionals, and agency and community
representatives.
Call 503-986-0085.
Salem Rodeo Days
The 4th annual Salem Rodeo
Days is May 17,18 ,19 a, the Ore
gon State Fairgrounds, Salem, OR
Salem Rodeo has been approved
by the Professional Rodeo Cow
boys Association, and includes: 3
PRCA performances, 7 exciting
rodeo events plus the Wild Horse
Race. There will also be a food and
family activity area and a carnival.
A portion of the proceeds will ben
efit The Boys&GirlsClub, DARE,
and Oregon Mounted Posse. Ro
deo tickets can be purchased at
Coastal Farm stores or Double ‘H’
Western Wear.
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television. He would like to see more
“middle-of-the-road" stories where
the focus is not on a criminal offense
or how the subject overcame oppres
sion or other racial hardship
“Viewers need to see more Black
people in stories where race is not an
issue, where it’s not even men
tioned,” said Wasbotten. Wasbotten
also believes that television news
producers and reporters should slow
down the pace of news stories, take
the time to offer possible explana
tions about why crimes happen, and
choose visuals and soundbites more
carefully.
Wasbotten, a White 26-year-old
New York native, said growing up in
a racially mixed neighborhood
strongly influenced his perceptions
Flood damage caused a tempo
rary shutdown of the Oregon Muse
um of Science and Industry, but the
landmark museum is on the road to
recovery with a Grand Re-Opening
celebration slated for Memorial Day
weekend. Festivities will kick-off
with a re-opening ceremony Friday,
May 24th at 10:00 a.m.
“We are coming back with a re
newed sense of spirit, and a comm it-
ment to provide top notch customer
service,” remarked Ed Gibson, pres
ident of OMSI, during a recent inter
view. As part of that new commit
ment, OMSI officials are making the
museum more accessible by reduc
ing and simplifying pricing for indi
vidual attractions and offering new
membership options.
The museum will open with Star
Trek: Federation Science in the
Changing Exhibit Hall, Orion Ren
dezvous and Sky Watch in the
Murdock Sky Theater and Antarcti
ca, The First Emperor Of China, and
Destiny In Space in the OMNIMAX
Theater More PowerTo You! anew
permanent exhibit which examines
electricity and its role in the history
of the northwest will be on display in
the Trubine hall.
Other weekend activities will in
clude live science demonstrations,
exhibit hall tours, a STAR TREK
look-alike contest and a memorial
Day ceremony alongside the USS
Blueback.
You’re Invited To
The Cultural
Recreation
Band's
Spring Concert
At
Matt Dishman
Community Center
77 N. E. Knott
of people who are different from
him.
“I’ve always been aware that TV,
especially TV news didn’t reflect my
reality, or the reality of my friends of
color,” said Wasbotten. “This study
will hopefully, in some small way,
help to change that.”
Saturday, May 18, 1996
6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
$10 Donation
Raffle— great prizes
For Tickets call 287-7512
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Ed Washington and Craig
Berkman join other com m unity
leaders in posing with the
Olympic torch a s it m a k e s a
brief sto p in Portland.
perform dockside as ticketholders
head down the gangplank.
Tickets to the Taste of Jazz 2 are
available at ticketmasters, the Port
land Center for the Performing Arts,
Portland State University. A gour
met box lunch will be part of the
ticket price
The cruise is a project of the Mt.
Hood Festival of Jazz Instrumental
W orkshop, chaired by Bobbye
Brown and Mel Brown. It benefits
the workshop’s scholarship fund,
sponsored by Beacock Music.
This summers version brings to
gether more than 40 jazz artists, in-
OMSI To Re-Open
Blacks Still Seen Negatively By TV
Continued from Front
eluding the Pat O ’Neal Riverboat
Jazz Band, the Art Abrams Swing
Machine big band and a nonstop jam
session featuring a baker’s dozen
instrumentalists. Also starring will
be singers Kelly Broadway and Sweet
Baby James Benton.
Driving the jam will be pianists
Darin Clendenin, Randy Porter and
George M itchell, bassists Tom
Wakeling and Joey Seifers and drum
mers Gary Hobbs and Keith Warner
Homs include saxophonists Warren
Rand and Renato Caranto, trumpeter
Bobby Bradford, trombonist Cleve
Williams and guitarists Hank Swam
and Dan Faehnle.
The 1996 cruise will give
Portlanders a chance to hear new and
veteran jazz players. The Bradford-
Williams-Swarn connection harks
back to the ‘ 50s and ‘60s, when these
players were part ofNorth Portland’s
exciting club action and afterhours
jam sessions.
The cruise will give listeners the
opportunity to hear newcomers sing
er Broadway and guitarist Faehnle as
well as bringing Sweet Baby James
into the fold.
With all the jazz talent set to per
form, cruise customers can also expect
to hear some surprises. With the 40-
some artists already booked, other
Portland jazz folks may be heard, too.
TRAD JAZZ/DIX1ELAND:PAT O’NEAL RIVERBOAT JAZZ BAND
BIG BAND JAZZ: ART ABRAMS SWING MACHINE
VOCALS: SWEET BABY JAMES BENTON. KELLY BROADWA1
N O N S T O P JAM S E S S IO N : RANDY P O R T E R . G E O . M IT C l_____
DARIN CLENDENIN. TOM WAKELING. JOEY SEIFERS. KEITH WERNER.
GARY H OBBS. WARREN RAND. RENATO CARANTO. CLEVE WILLIAMS.
B O B B Y B R A D F O R D . DAN FA E H N L E . HANK SW A R N
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