The following is a brief list of
events this weekend. For more
information, call the venue.
CONCERTS:
Duffy’s Tavern, 1412 0 St.
474- 3543
Sunday: Melt Banana
Duggan’s Pub, 440 S. 11th St.
477-3513
Friday: FAC with Cool
Ridbum and Mezcal
Brothers
Saturday: Mezcal Brothers
Knickerbocker’s Bar and
Grill, 901 OSt.
476- 6865
Friday: 8th Wave, Mandown,
Pomeroy, The Fonzerellies
Saturday: Project Wet, Sofa
Kit XL
Pla Mor Ballroom
6600 W. O St.
475- 4030
Friday: Home Grown, The
Great Divide
Sunday: The Sandy Creek
and Cactus Hill
Royal Grove
340W. ComhuskerHighway
474-2332
Friday: Michyksaseal
Saturday: Blue October
W C’s Downtown,1228P St.
477- 4006
Friday: Groove Puppet
The Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St.
435-8754
Friday: The Grateful Dudes
Saturday: Marie Hummel 1
THEATER:
Kimball Recital Hall
U13RSt.
472-3376
Friday: The UNL Opera,
“Hansel and Gretal”
Mary Riepma Ross Film
Theater, 12th and R streets
472-5353
All weekend: “The Cup”
GALLERIES:
Doc’s Place, MON. 8th St.
476-3232
All weekend: Nick Pella
Haydon Art Gallery
335N. 8th St.475-5421
All weekend: Kirk Pedersen
Noyes Art Gallery
119 S. 9th St.
475-1061
All weekend: Max Cox, Gregg
Stokke, Mary Jane
Lamberson, Jo Brown, and
Robert Egan
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1. Super Furry Animals
'Mwng"
Their fourth foil-length release, the
first on their own Placid Casual Label, Is
entirely in weisn.
2. flock Strikes Thirteen
'Ever Decreasing Circles"
Grand psychadelic pop made about 35
years too late.
3. The Satyrs
The Satyrs'
Brooding, melancholy and mellow...
an American version of Nick Cave and
the Bad Seeds.
4 Jack Drag
"Soft Songs LP: Aviating"
The latest product from a one-man
bedroom-studio band.
5JimiTenor
'Out of Nowhere"
An entirely sample-free orchestral
project straight out of Eastern Europe.
6. King Biscuit Time
"No Style"
Second EP from Steve Mason, frontman
from the Beta Band.
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"Weekends of Sound"
Third album from Seattle-based guitar
rocktrio.
8. Har Mar Superstar
"Har Mar Superstar"
Soulful boyband jams with tongue
firmly planted in cheek ...on the Kill
Rock Stars label, curiously enough...
9. Brave Combo
The Process'
Latest album from Grammy-winning
polka outfit ...don't be frightened by
the polka label ...this is light years
beyond Weird Al.
10. White Hassle
"Life is Still Sweet"
A solid EP of catchy alt-country from
this Railroad Jerk side-project.
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jr Soul of
the Ukraine
Ensemble dances
sings its culture
at the Lied Centei
BY BRIAN CHRISTOPHERSON
They don’t speak a lick of English, and
they don’t need to.
Their steps, costumes and music do
the translating for them.
They are the highly regarded Veriovka
Ukrainian National Song and Dance
Ensemble.
The 80-person ensemble will give
Lincolnites a taste of Ukrainian culture
at the Lied Center for Performing Arts 4
tonight at 7:30.
The 80 members include dancers, a
chorus and a fblk-instrument orches
tra.
Their goal is “to reveal the great soul
of the Ukrainian people through song jH
and dance,” said the ensemble’s Artistic >5
Director Anatoly Avdievsky.
Lisa Fusillo, UNL dance professor,
said she expects the soul of Ukraine to
come out loud and clear in tonight's per
formance.
“This group is famous for their folk
dancing,” Fusillo said.
“Ukrainians bring a display of culture,
colorful costumes and dance that is not
seen often here.”
The song and dance ensemble has stood
as a symbol of Ukraine’s culture since 1943
during World War II, when the ensemble
was formed with soldiers, workers and
farmers who loved to dance and sing.
Since those early days they have grown
to be world-renowned, touring many coun
tries and finally hitting the American circuit
in 1996.
They became recognizable in North
America when they took the 1967 World
Exposition in Montreal, Canada, by storm,
with what many Canadian journalists
referred to as the “most memorable event of
the year.”
The Ukrainians perform a variety of
numbers as diverse as historical ballads,
Cossack and chumak songs and dances, as
well as holiday ritual performances.
However, they are perhaps most famous
for their scenic competitions, which com
bine instrumental music with singing and
dancing.
“They have a great deal of energy in their
per
f o r -
mances.
They’re
very physi
cal in their
dancing,” said
Charles Bethea,
the Lied Center's
executive director.
The Ukrainian
group’s message also
ties in nicely with the Lied
Center’s seasonal theme
“Destination.”
“It does fit that description of destina
tion nicely, doesn’t it?” Bethea said. “They
will show us the colorful Ukrainian culture.”
The ensemble provides a chance to see
something that is rare in America, Fusillo
said.
America has many different cultural
dances, including Native American dances,
square dancing and some Czech dances,
Fussillo said.
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“It
is more difficult for ethnic groups in
America to performances of their her
itage,” she said. “To have a Czech dance,
there almost needs (to be) a special event or
Czech festival for anyone to see.
“It is more natural for a gathering in a
nation like Ukraine.”
But the gathering is in Lincoln tonight,
and for one night, Lincolnites will have a
touch of Ukraine.
Veriovka Ukrainian 1 ,
National Song and
Dance Ensemble
~Cwhere: Lied Center for
Performing Arts
301 N. 12th
—(When: Tonight at 7:30
—(Cost7 $24-32, half for
students
In the key of Russia
■The St. Petersburg String
Quartet brings the flavor of its
home country to the Sheldon
Memorial Art Gallery tonight.
BY KEN MORTON
When the Soviet Union
drew back the Iron Curtain in
1991, the Leningrad String
Quartet had already started to
stake its reputation as one of the
premier chamber music
ensembles in Russia.
The quartet changed its
name to the St. Petersburg
String Quartet when the play
ers’ native city changed from
Leningrad, and the fall of com
munism benefited the group.
Joseph Kraus, UNL music
theory professor, said the quar
tet’s increasing popularity
around the globe has as much
to do with its outstanding abili
ty as with the fall of the Soviet
Union.
The St. Petersburg String
Quartet, made up of first violin
ist Alla Aranovskaya, second
violinist Ilya Teplyakov, violist
Aleskey Koptev and cellist
Leonid Shukaev, formed in
1985.
After playing together for
four years, the group gained
approval to take the name
“Leningrad String Quartet” and
went on to win several awards
at international music competi
tions.
Its current tour includes
dates in the United States,
Germany, Holland and Great
Britain. It will make a stop in
Lincoln for a 7:30 p.m. show at
the Sheldon Memorial Art
Gallery.
Kraus said the quartet was
“extremely polished.”
“The group seems to feel
things together,” Kraus said.
“The way they play leads to a
much more detailed and inti
mate performance.”
Clark Potter, an associate
professor in UNL’s School of
Music, said the St. Petersburg
String Quartet will give listeners
a special opportunity to hear
Russians performing Russian
music.
“Americans can try to dupli
cate the music,” he said, “but
hearing Russians perform their
own music really gives you a
special insight.”
Potter will give a pre-per
formance talk about one of the
quartet’s pieces. Dmitri
Shostakovich’s “Piano Quintet
in G minor,” Potter said, is a lit
tle-played piece but worth lis
tening to.
Ludmil Angelov, a Bulgarian
pianist, will accompany the
quartet.
Potter said Shostakovich
uses the piano more like a per
cussion instrument than a
St. Petersburg
String Quartet
"(Where: Sheldon Memorial
Art Gallery, 12th
and R streets
—(When: Tonight @ 7:30
—(Cost: $5 for students,
$25 for general
public
stringed instrument.
A two-handed technique
makes the pieces sound more
like a sextet than a quintet.
Potter said Shostakovich’s
style is instantly recognizable to
those who may have heard him
before.
Following the performance,
Kraus said, the performers will
attend a reception, which will
give patrons a chance to inter
act with the group.
Kraus also said he hopes a
reduced admission charge - $5
for students and $25 for the
general public - will help attract
a younger audience.
“We want students to expe
rience this music and hopefully
learn to appreciate it,” he said.
Festival to feature
Latin music,culture
BY MAUREEN GALLAGHER
Latino musicians, both tradi
tional and nontraditional, will be
given a chance to showcase their
talent this weekend at the
Hispanic Community Center’s
10l“ annual Hispanic Heritage
Festival.
The festival will also give
Lincoln residents a chance to learn
more about the Hispanic culture,
said Chandra Diaz-DeBose, one of
the event’s organizers and a
teacher at Park Middle School.
“You can read all you want
about a culture, but it’s not until
you get the experience that real
learning occurs,” Diaz-DeBose
said.
The Hispanic experience will
kick off tonight at 5 with recogni
tion of those who made the festival
possible, but the real fun begins
later.
Kusi Taki takes the stage at 6
p.m. to entertain the crowd with
Latin music and wall be followed
with traditional singing from
Marisa Martinez at 7:30.
Diaz-DeBose said the night
will heat up at 9 p.m. with a dance
led by deejay Fernando.
Cathy Maestas, vice president
of the Hispanic Community
Center’s board of directors, said
tonight’s dance will be “geared
toward everyone.” She said Latin
and hip-hop music will be played.
The dance is scheduled to end at
midnight.
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Hispanic Heritage
Festival,
-C Where: State Fair Park
—(When: Tonight5-12
Saturday 10 a.m.
1 a.m.
Friday $2-5
Saturday $3-5 for
entrance, $10 for
concert
The festival will pick up again
on Saturday at 10 a.m., and the day
will be filled with Hispanic story
telling by Ricardo Garcia, tradi
tional dancing by Sabor Mexicano
and more traditional singing from
Marisa Martinez.
Latin dance lessons will be
conducted by Dance Directives at
4 p.m.
The festivities will break from
the traditional Hispanic events at 6
p.m. when the Mezcal Brothers
take the stage, Diaz-DeBose said.
The Mezcal Brothers are a
Lincoln-based, “nontraditional”
Mexican band that play rockabilly
swing music, Diaz-DeBose said.
At 9:30 p.m., Conjunto Aztlan
will take the stage to wrap up the
weekend’s celebration with some
traditional conjunto music.