Culinary palates attended to at Flatwater
BY ROBIN TRIMARCHI
Staff Reporter
This year, Flatwater Festival-goers can
snack on sumptuous arrays of food and drink,
with enough variety to arouse every culinary
whim.
Twenty-six vendors will line the vincinty of
R and 13th streets, enticing appetites with
offerings of international foods, gourmet treats
and speciality drinks.
Several of Lincoln’s major restaurants will
be cooking-up their most popular menu items,
while many local and regional caterers will be
treating the more daring tastes to unique home
made delights.
The most hearty appetites should find satis
faction. Pizza-by-the-slice from Valentino’s
and Domino’s, burritos and nachos from
Amigo's, three varieties of pita sandwiches
from George’s Greek Gyros, shrimp wontons
from Rong Vang of Omaha and hickory
smoked, barbecue-beef sandwiches from
Ozark Smoked Meats of Lincoln are several of
the many choices available to festival partici
pants. Calorie-busters such as fresh ice-cream
from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln diary
store and hot funnel cakes from A & J Conces
sions indulge that insauablc sweet-tooth.
An expected 80,000 people also will find
the Greek pastry baklava, TCBY frozen yo
gurt, A & J corn-dogs and Italian Sausages
from Skold Concessions among the abundant
fare at this year’s festival.
Last year’s unusual 100 degree June heat
wave set record beverage sales, according to
Deb Hannond of Emerald Isle Drinks.
“But we’re hoping for a comfortable 90-95
degrees this year.’’ Hammond said. “Either
way. we’re expecting another great year.’’
Emerald Isle offers candy-store shakes,
including a non-dairy shake, non-alcoholic
versions of Frosted Hurricanes and 40 flavors
of frosted fruit-slushes.
Enid Newman of Tropical Sno also antici
pates another great year. Tropical Sno offers 24
flavors of soft-slush shaved-ice drinks.
Sue King of A & J Concessions has been
selling her Ozark-recipe funnel cakes at the
Flatwater Festival since Lincolnfcst days and
for 11 years at the Nebraska State Fair.
“We started out in the Ozarks,” King said,
“but now we live here in Lincoln, and we look
forward to another fun year.”
Son Seals
epitomizes
urban blues
By Felipe Medcalf
Staff Reporter
When Rolling Slone acclaims an
artist as “a major blues talent with a
commanding new style of his own,”
it’s not a performance to be missed.
And by catching the Son Seals with
his Blues Band on the mam stage
Friday, at 7 p.m., festival-goers can
indulge themselves in the best of
blues.
Son Seals epitomizes the history
of urban blues. Beginning with roots
in deep south country blues. Seals
grew up in Osceola, Arkansas-- the
home of blues-giant, Albert King,
Seal s favorite artist. With Osceola
only 50 miles from Memphis, Seals
was schooled early in country and
Memphis blues. He was influenced
by the likes of B.B King, Bobby
Bland, Junior Parker and Robert
Nighthawk, artists who regularly
toured there.
By the age of 17, Seals was play
ing in a backup band for Sonny Boy
Williamson. Seals, moving to Chi
cago in 1971, played with the likes of
Junior Wells and the late Hound Dog
Taylor. Seals developed a style of
pure Chicago blues edged with
roughhousc rock.
Seals issued his first album
through Alligator Records in 1973.
He subsequently recorded the album
“Bad Axe” which received a
Grammy nomination in 1986. Seals
was voted the W.C. Handy Award for
Contemporary Blues Album of the
Year in 1985 by the Blues Founda
tion, an organization of blues critics
and players in 1985 in Memphis.
Seal’s newest release, “Live at
Blues,” recorded at the Club Blues in
Chicago, will be out in June.
Seals will be returning to Lincoln
backed by a crack group of young
bluesmen; Red Bretsinger on tenor
sax; Boney Fields on trumpet; Dave
Williams on drums plus Rick Howard
and one S.S. Randall on guitar.
The Son Seals Blues Band has
headlined well-know blues festivals
like Long Beach and San Francisco,
so locals should take advantage o
this chance to check out what has
been called by some critics, the bes
Chicago blues band in existence.
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