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The following is a brief list of
weekend events. Please call the
venue for more information.
CONCERTS
Duffys, 1412 0 St.
Sunday: The Hang Ups, Meelee
Grace Lutheran Church, 2225
Washington St.
Friday: The Nebraska Brass
Knickerbockers, 901 O St.
Friday: Shootyz Groove, Black
Light Sunshine, Size 13, The
Honey Dogs, Meelee
Saturday: Apostrophe, Magic Bus
Ride
Lied Center for Performing Arts,
301 N. 12th St.
Friday; “An Evening at Club 47”
O ’Donell Auditorium, Rogers
Center for Fine Arts, 50th and
Huntington streets
Sunday: Bravo Bosendorfer
Royal Grove, 340 W. Comhusker
Highway
Friday: Shithook
Saturday: Bosch
7th Street Loft, 512 S. Seventh St.
Saturday: Third Chair Cantina
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery,
12th and R streets
Friday: Vienna Pian^ tour
Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St.
Friday and Saturday: Johnny Dilks
Sunday: Tony Furtado
THEATER:
Ma’y Riepma Ross Film Theater,
12th and R streets
Sunday: “Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down
Girl”
Mueller Planetarium, Morrill
Hall, 14th and U streets
Friday and Saturday: Beastie Boys
Sunday: Fleetwood Mac
Lincoln Community Playhouse,
2500 S. 56th St.
All weekend: “Arsenic and Old
Lace”
Studio Theatre, 12th and R streets,
3rd floor
Friday and Saturday: “Death and
the Maiden”
DANCE
7th Street Loft, 504 S. Seventh St.
Friday : Sean Curran Company
GALLERIES:
Gallery 9, 124 S. Ninth St. '
All weekend: Allen Busch, Judy
Greff, Barbara Sullivan
Haydon Gallery, 335 N. Eighth St.
All weekend: Marcia Goldenstein,
Tom Riesling
Lentz Center, Morrill Hall, 14th
and U streets
All weekend: paintings by Shi Hu
Noyes Art Gallery, 119S. Ninth St.
All weekend: Lois Meysenburg,
Tom Palmerton, Kevin Baker, Gina
Downey, Jerene Kruse, Gretchen
•Meyers, Julia Noyes
The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery,
12th and R streets
All weekend: “Black lmage*and
Identity,” “Modem Masters,”
Charles Rain’s “Magic Realism,”
Robert Colescott paintings
Tom Rush
Livingston Taylor
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Vance Gilbert
Janis Ian
I ’ ’ ns relive 'Club 47'
■ Folk tradition meets big-name
singers, songwriters in four-set
ensemble performance, including
Grammy nominee.
By Shelley Mika
Staff writer
Take a long-standing musical tradition, four gift
ed singer/songwriters and a willing audience, and
you get “An Evening at Club 47.”
To get a better idea, place yourself in the 1960s
in a quaint coffee shop in Cambridge, Mass. This is
where it all begins. At Club 47, young folk musi
cians wait in the wings to display their talents and
have some fun with the audience.
That was more than 30 years ago. Many of the
same musicians who hoped for a good response
while waiting to go on have now been signed to
record labels and even have been awarded
Grammies. ^
But there is still something about the little club
where they all got started.
So how does one take the rich tradition of Club
47 and merge it with the future of folk? Tom Rush
has the answer.
Rush created “An Evening at Club 47” by gath
ering together folk musicians, both old and new, and
taking them chi tour across the United States.
Tonight, Rush brings Livingston Taylor, Janis
Ian and Vance Gilbert ns well as his own act to the
Lied Center stage.
In a telephone interview, Taylor explained more
about the nature of the show.
’Tom Calls a number of people and asks if they
have an interest.... I’m absolutely delighted to think
that he’d call me,” Taylor said
But it’s no surprise that Taylor was invited on the
tour. Although Lie is often referred to as the brother
of musician James Taylor, Livingston Taylor has his
own reputable career. In almost three decades of
recording, he has released 13 albums.
Taylor got his start as a folk musician in the cof
fee houses of Boston, including Club 47.
“I played the original,” he said. “It’s cozy. It’s a
lovely small club of about 100 seats.”
"Die Lied Center for Performing Arts may not
capture this intimacy as well as a coffee house
might, but Taylor remained optimistic that the size
of the audience wouldn’t hinder the quality of the
performance.
“The wonderful tiling about folk music is that it
really depends on and recognizes, in a way that other
music doesn’t, the importance of an audience to a
show,” he said. “What you’ll see is a sense of the
importance and delight we take in the presence of
our audience.”
The audience will get a chance to see each per-"
former take the stage, each with his or her own set.
“We usually get together af the end”Taylor said.
“We know a few things together. All of us have
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