Local musicians pfay their stuff Concert to feature By EVE MARKOWITZ Collegian Staff Writer Sometimes you hear them and sometimes you don’t because they play in local nightspots as background music. This weekend, though, six local musicians are treating State College to a bona-fide concert. “Jazz, blues, folk, rock they’ll all be represented in some way,” says guitarist Jerry Zolten. The concert will be held at the Hillel Foun dation at 8 Sunday night. All of the musicians are i professionals who have been all over the country since the early 60’s when they saw their music “hatch.” “Jerry and I go back to the beginning of the movement Castro viewed from new By SUSAN FROETSCIIEL through Cuba. They said that aspects of Cuban life. Collegian Staff Writer they would often change their Certain parts of the book WITH FIDEL. By Frank daily schedules and there are tedious because of the Mankiewicz and Kirby Jones, would be no protests or continuous question and Ballantineßooks,2l2pp. apparent advanced answer style. For example, *175 preparations. Castro’s conversations with ' „ . citizens in the rum factory With Fidel is Frank The bulk of the book is in and on the beach are typical Mankiewicz and Kirby question and answer form everyday conversations and Jones s account of their three an d is based on the interviews have little political or social trips to Cuba in 1974 and 1975. w jth Castro. For clarity, the impact. The trips totaled over six authors integrate the in- . , weeks and their purpose was terviews from the different Otherwise, Castro s to interview Cuban Prime trips and then separate them opinions on President Ford, Minister Fidel Castro. into subjects such as the Cubas relations with the The authors were not Communist Party, the Soviet Soviet Union and the United restricted in their travels Union, Watergate and various States and the economies ol TEACH A FREE U COURSE! !! hillel aciiviiies coming this week 'Friday Sabbath Services at 8 p.ip. followed by Opeg Sbabbat Saturday - Sabbath Services at 10 a.ip. Wednesday - Talipud 7 - 8 p.ip.; Hebrew 8 - 9 p.ip. Thursday Jewish fiitual 7 - 8 p.ip. 224 Locust Lone here at Penn State in ’63, ’64,” said Ken Mathicu, who plays a six-night a week circuit at Toftrees and the Holiday Inn. "That was when girls were still required to be in at 11:30 on weeknights and at 1 p.m. on the weekends,” he said. “Music-wise, Peter, Paul and Mary were just the tip of the iceberg; we were interested in the obscure.” Zolten and Mathieu were working with the Folklore Society then, “an extremely potent force on campus that booked a lot of concerts,” presenting acts like Richie Havens and Janis lan. Zolten said in those days Richie Havens and other unknowns would play for $5O and about 50 students would show up for the concerts. He can DANCE • HAIRCUTTING • COOKING • M ACRAME Turn in course descriptions to 223 HUB before May 14 remember when the then obscure Arlo Guthrie came to State College and couldn’t perform just because the Society hadn’t the $5O to pay for it. “People like Tom Rush and Tom Paxton came here before they were famous we wanted the real rootsy people,” Zolten said. All of the performers in the concert have acted as opening acts to major performers. They admit it can be un comfortable playing to audiences who are impatient for the main act to begin. “Often you get an audience that’s pretty appreciative,” said Mathieu. “But I’ve seen really good groups booed off the stage because an 237-2408 musical mix audience wanted to see, say, Poco.” “That’s part of the tragedy of the music scene. You have to suffer. Music’s the kind of business where you starve until you’re a millionaire.” “From the opening act point of view there’s sometimes this tremendous fear,” Zolten said. “For various reasons, and this isn’t always because of quality, we can’t be the main act. There’s this crazy myth going around that big names are synonomous with quality and it’s just not true.” In addition to Zolten and Mathieu, the concert, “a strictly non-religious event,” will also feature pianist Arthur Goldstein of the local groups Silent Way and perspective the three countries are Revolution as a success, sometimes surprising. His They note that Cuba is a criticisms of the United unique Communist country States are always of the without labor camps and government and not of the secret police. Unlike other people and they are in- Communist countries, Castro formative and provocative. permitted Cubans to leave if ‘ • . ~. they wished. Although Cuba is In the introduction and the a dictatorship, it is not conclusion, Mankiewicz and totalitarian, the authors said. Jones give their own views of Through their travels, Castro and Cuba. They note interviews, and this book, incidents that demonstrate Mankiewicz and Jones add to his simplicity, charisma, American’s knowledge of force and stubbornness. Cuban history and clear up Mankiewicz and Jones some myths which persist due portray the Cuban to ignorance and bias. [ FREE! \ | I** M u e y d!Z ? izza ! 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Tommy Wareham, described by Fox as “one of the most exciting and one of the finest guitarists in the area” will add to the rhythms of the concert. an affiliate of Dantes Inc. cians Jazz great dead at 86 NEW ORLEANS (AP) The drum and Little Ernie Cagnolari, who played bass horns boomed and the trombones and trumpet in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band trumpets wailed a dirge yesterday as New with Robinson, leaned on his crutches Orleans jazzmen escorted Nathan “Big Jim” against the front of the church as the Robinson to his grave. Olympia Brass Band shuffled around the Big Jim, 86, had been one of them, a corner, leading the hearse, trombonist who played with the best for more than 50 years, and they gave him the “1 played with Jim since 1928, Cagnolari traditional New Orleans sendoff, a jazz said. “I must of played 200 of these funerals funeral. with him. Lord knows how many he played. Robinson, who died Tuesday, was buried He talked about missing Jim when the band from St. Mark’s Missionary Baptist church, performs. “Jim is missing a trip,” he said, housed in a building that once was the home “We gotta get out of here as soon as the of Kid Howard, the legendary trumpeter who service is over. We’re going over m Georgia, used to play with Big Jim. to Savannah, to play a job." Arthur Goldstein, Jerry Zollen, Ken Mathieu and David Fox, local performers, will appear in concert at 8 p.m. Sunday at the Hillel Foundation. The concert will feature a repertoire of jazz, folk and rock music. THE SILVEI CELLAR Silver, Gold, Gemstones 153 S. 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