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Opryland visits Omaha to look for performers By John Payne Staff Reporter The entertainment conglomerate Opryland will have auditions Friday in Omaha as part of its nationwide search for performers to work at its showpark “Opryland, U.S.A.’’ The auditions, open to anyone interested, will be from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Emmy Gifford Chil dren's Theater, 3504 Center St. Opryland, U.S.A. is located in Nashville, Tcnn., and many perform ers have used the experience as a springboard to Broadway, recording contracts or movie careers. Judges at the auditions arc looking for talented performers in three areas: singing, dancing and instrumental. Those trying out must display their talent quickly, showing the judges something fresh and original. Opryland is looking for stage managers and technicians as well, but resumes are needed. Opryland kicked off the tour ear lier this month and has 23 more stops to make including Kansas City, At lanta, and Denver, before wrapping up the search in Nashville this De cember. Out of the 25-statc tour, 450 performers will be selected. Local performers have but one chance to strut their stuff, though, as Omaha will be Opryland’s only Ne braska visit. GET ONE OF THESE FREE ! 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T * Large single topping pizza and four Cokes only $9.99 * Medium single topping pizza and two Cokes only $6.99 ‘Additional toppings extra Can 467-3611 cVSleniinO$ Sunday thm Thursday 5:00 p.m. to 1100 p.m. Tfap Pfcrjra front Friday thm Saturday 5:00 p.m. to Midnight ★ Other menu items available ★ I llcU i/IUTlt OlOp With itZZH. DARK HORSE ?922 Baseline rp . boulder.co tjowh w-Biba LIVE from Page 9 Monday and Tuesday, Magic Slim and the Teardrops will play at the Zoo Bar. Magic Slim has pretty much established himself as one of the most popular bluesmen with Lincoln audiences. This is espe cially true among the college-aged audience. His reputation speaks for itself. Fine South Side Chicago blues. Sunday, the Monks will play a variety of popular jazz standards at Chesterfield’s, Lower Level 245 N. 13th St. Rock: Friday and Saturday, Bobby Curious will play at Bash Rip rocks, Upper Level 240 N. 12th St. One of Lincoln’s most popular cover bands, Bobby Curious is known for its zany and irreverent approach to performing. Friday and Saturday, On Tap will play at the Mountains Bar and Grill, 311 S. 11th St. Friday and Saturday, Finest Hour will play at Oscar’s, 800 O St. Finest Hour is one of Omaha’s hottest college-oriented cover bands right now. The band features T.K. Olson, a member of one of the most popular but now-defunct Lincoln cover bands, the * 7 ^ pj,oto COUrtesy of BMI Morehouse James Marman Finnstcrs. Is your band, or a band you arc interested in, playing in Lincoln soon? If so, contact the Daily Nebraskan with band information for timely publication. KATE from Page 9 rock with Irish and Bulgarian influ ences, it never sounds pretentious or false, but instead combines disparate music in such a way as to intensify their component beauty. “The Sensual World” is a long overdue return for Bush. Although the album as a whole isn’t as breath taking as some of her earlier work, it also features several Hacks that are among Bush’s sHongesl and most compelling. Jane Siberry “Bound by the Beauty” Duke Street Records “Bound by the Beauty,” the fourth album by Canada’s Jane Si berry, borders on the brilliant. With an instant accessibility lacking in her earlier work, Siberry continues to create fascinating musical scenarios that belie a deeper meaning, and this latest album verifies her position as one of the best lyricists around. “Bound by the Beauty” marks a departure from Siberry’s earlier, mostly clccHonic, work. The new album is primarily acoustic; electric guitars and vocal overdubs arc used minimally, with nary a synthesizer in sight. Her new simplicity extends to the very structure of her songs, which she has pared down from six minute plus surrealist epics. Her own style of songwriung, a collage of whimsical visions and snatches of overheard conversation, remains intact -- the whimsy remains, but her new formal is less intimidat ing. To top it all off, Siberry is a markedly better singer than before. While all of Siberry’s work has been musically sHong, this album is more Haduionally tuneful. The songs’ hooks arc apparent and atHac tive on the first listen, while before Siberry’s barrage of lyrics eclipsed the tune. “Bound by the Beauty” is more a collection of bright, catchy songs than a medium for Siberry’s clever poeHy. The album’s sound is folkish, eas ing at times into country (“Some thing About Trains”) or into mourn ful ballads (“La Jalouse,” “The Valley”). Overall, Siberry’s ap proach is more straightforward, and her ace backing band supports her new confidence. The title track ex emplifies the strong partnership be tween Sibcrry and her musicians. Every piece fits, subtlety builds on subtlety and the music is as rich as the lyrics about Siberry’s return to the Canadian wilderness. Siberry’s characteristic humor is woven throughout the album without the edge of blackness and morbidity it used to contain. In the gentle bossa nova of “Miss Punta Blanca,’’ Si bcrry disdains a beauty contest held for the tourists in favor of “ M ike, this guy I really like.’’ “Everything Reminds Me of My Dog,’ ’ one of the album’s most appealing songs, has Sibcrry comparing her dog to Ein stein’s hair just before she breaks into a chorus of “If you remind me of my dog, we’ll probably git along little doggie, git along-” The angriness and harshness of “Half Angel, Half Eagle” approxi mates authentic rock ‘n’ roll closer than any of Siberry’s work. The brewing storm of guitars bubbles menacingly beneath the chants of racial, ethnic and sexual slurs that Sibcrry uses to refute intolerance. “Bound by the Beauty” con cludes with “Are We Dancing Now?” the third part in Siberry’s “Map of the World’’ series. As is typical with Siberry’s longer tracks, “Arc We Dancing Now?,” contains distinct musical movements; frantic Latin dance music erupts from ro mantic Parisian accordion, and then subsides into the lazy, breathy mel ody that Si berry enhances with vo cals. The effect is exciting, almost as if three songs were combined. Sibcrry has remained primarily an underground artist, but “Bound by the Beauty” proves that the so-oflen ignored “alternative” scene is really the outpost of music’s most talented and intriguing artists. Movie addresses role of Vietnamese women By Matt Burton Staff Reporter Many movies have been made about Vietnam, but few have been made from the perspective of the moyip -—^^REVIEWl— Vietnamese. This weekend, movie goers will have the opportunity to view movies directed by Trinh T. Minh-ha at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. One movie, “Surname Viet Given Name Nam,” is a documentary of sorts, using actresses to profile the role of women in Vietnamese culture. The first halt intersperses footage of Vietnam’s landscape and interviews of women explaining their role in the traditional Vietnamese culture. The second half of the film shows footage of the newly established Western Vietnamese culture with interviews of women explaining their role in a new society. The women address issues of the old culture such as the dominant role of men in Vietnam. This different perspective of the women also elabo rates on how the Vietnam conflict transgressed national boundaries to a feeling of sisterhood between North and South Vietnam. The process of mass migration from Vietnam to the West also is profiled, slopping in Guam, and the consequent racial problems as well as the support from American sponsors to help the Vietnamese gel estab See MOVIE on 11