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.
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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
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interested in, playing in Lincoln
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for timely publication.
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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
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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
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