--■MriCTlflMliHMilfr
‘F’ is for free
Two weeks later, UPC’s
homecoming streetparty is on
and inside
□ lmost nothing in this world is
free.
Except the concert on East
Campus this Saturday.
A leftover event from this year’s
homecoming festivities, the Univer
sity Program Council is sponsoring an
“indoor streetparty” featuring local
celebrities the Millions. Admission is
free to students with university IDs.
Travis Fox, UPC events director—
and nationally known Barney basher
— said the streetparty was originally
scheduled for Oct. 15. Organizers
hoped to fill S Street, between 15th
and 16th streets, with dancing univer
sity students.
Unfortunately, Millions’ lead
singer Lori Allison lost her voice the
week before, after a concert in
Lawrence, Kan. It didn’t return in time
for the streetparty, she said.
“It was getting better all week, but
it just wasn’t all the way better,”
Allison said.
Without Allison, the show couldn’t
go on, Fox said.
k
“Her voice was the center of this
whole event,” he said.
The Millions had to cancel, and the
event was postponed.
But the group wanted to make up
the concert, Fox said. Band members
Marty Amsler, Harry Dingman III,
Greg Hill, Allison and Ben Kushner
—the “mystery new guy on guitar”—
have wanted to play a show for the
campus com
munity for
quite some
time.
So the event
was resched
uled, and the
streetpartywas
moved inside,
“ - to the East
Campus Union’s Great Plains room.
Allison said she was looking for
ward to playing on campus.
“It is a good way to reach a lot of
people,” she said. “And it’s fun; a little
different from playing at Duffy's.”
She’s also excited because fans are
encouraged to dress in their Hallow
een costumes. She plans on participat
ing.
“This is my favorite season and my
favorite holiday,” she said. “But I’m
not going to tell what my costume is.”
Allison said she was a little worried
that students might miss the show in
favor of Halloween parties.
“There are about 1,000 parties that
night,” she said. “But they can always
go after the show.”
Fox wasn’t too worried about turn
out. In fact, he encourages students to
arrive early. While the actual
streetparty could have accommodated
a very large number of people, the
inside version is limited to about 600.
Students with IDs will be allowed
in after 7:15 p.m. Non-students will be
allowed in after 7:45 p.m., at a cost of
$3. The show begins at 8 p.m.
Mainelli is a senior news-editorial major and
the Daily Nebraskan Arts & Entertainment
editor.
Singers take stage with
music thats ‘a little bit hick’
By Paula Lavlgne
Staff Reporter
t used to be said if you played
a country song backwards,
“your wife, your truck and your dog
would all come back.” With that im
age shattered, modem country music
is making its way up the charts and on
the stage.
The University Program Council is
taking advantage of this trend by spon
soring the Clint Black and Wynonna
Judd “Black and Wy” concert tonight
at the Devaney Sports Center.
James Buckley, coordinator
of campus programs for the
Office for Student Involve
ment, said Nebraska was an
attractive market for country
concert promoters.
“Country is hot right now,”
he said. “This market’s proven
itself for country with sold-out
State Fair performances and in
creasing airplay of country
music on Omaha and Lincoln
Concert
preview
radio stations.”
Buckley said the demand for coun
try was evident. He said the “new
country” style was an attractive musi
cal genre.
“Country isn’t as twangy as it used
to be,” he said. Many country artists,
such as Vince Gill, who played with
Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits, have
ties with other musical backgrounds,
Buckley said.
“You’ve got a lot of people with
rock, folk and pop music influence in
their backgrounds,” he said.
Buckley said this mixture of coun
try and rock created a new style of
music.
“It’s not headbanging and it’s not
‘ciy in your beer’ music,” he said.
“Country music was the
easiest category to
put these people
into.”
Buckley said he attributed much of
the success of country music to the
baby boomer generation. He said the
rock groups to which that generation
listened, such as the Eagles, were not
together anymore or did not release
albums on a regular basis.
“These people still love music,” he
said, “but you can’t get a 30-year-old
mom with two kids to get into Ozzy
Osbourne, Guns ‘N* Roses or Smash
ing Pumpkins.”
He said the baby boomers were
looking for a musical style with which
they could identify.
“They can handle Don Henley sing
ing a duet with Trisha Yearwood,” he
said.
Buckley said many of the older
rock groups would be categorized as
country by today’s standards.
“If the Eagles or Jackson Browne
were coming out today and not in the
’70s, they’d be classified as country,”
he said.
The driving force behind country
music may be the thirtysomething
See COUNTRY on 8
Brian ShaMto / DN