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ARTS & LEISURE
Dancers create colorful concert
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"Some of Shelley’s Blues.” written by vocal range Excelled.
raving madman in the boat as the
high seas. He had marlin on the mind.
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Artist and writer work together to
transcend each other’s talents. Stead-
man and Thompson have created a fun,
memorable book-one to pass around
and share with friends.
The best way to read "The Curse of
Lono” is curled up in an easy chair with
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collect the knives.”
Then things got weird. Thompson got
Sergeant Major Zack Carey
believed in Truth, Justice and the American Way...
until a small-town sheriff set him up,
and threw his only son in jail for a crime he didn’t commit.
Now, Sergeant Major Zack Carey is going
to try something a little different!
dance festival. Nelda Drury, physical
education professor emeritus, who was
called "the force and inspiration
behind the folk dance movement in
Folk dancers from this campus, the
University of Texas at Austin, the
Polish folk dancers of San Antonio, the
Fire-on-the-Mountain doggers. Ballet
Folklorico De Navarro, San Antonio In-
ternational Folk Dancers, the Slavadillo
Folk Band and the Houston Interna-
Mexico, for instance, the music and Mexico,
dance often portrayed tragic love I
stories told over and over again,
embellished a little more each time, costumery, exotic
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This worried Thompson immensely, of interpretive creativity.
"It was obvious from the confusion
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variety of folk dances their hands in synch with the guitarist.
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"old favorites” through the ages. In groups performed
It was an evening of sheer entertain-
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Running Magazine editors asked
Hunter S. Thompson to cover the
Honolulu Marathon in 1981. They
should have known better.
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sidekick, Ralph Steadman, to go with
him. Steadman is something of an ar-
tistic equivalent of Thompson as a
journalist.
The duo decided to vacation in
Hawaii after the marathon, and they
collaborated on a book, "The Curse of
Lono,” about their vacation.
Anyone who has read Thompson’s
writings needs no elaboration on the
subject matter therein. He developed
his gonzo journalism style in Rolling
Stone in the 1960s. His writing is
sometimes prophetic, sometimes
poetic, but, most assuredly, always
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Against a black backdrop highlighted
with a colorful design of dancers.
Perfect pitch, excellent song selection
and pure, smooth singing.
Former student Tish Hinojosa
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Staff Writer
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id original songs and tunes by other described it as a cult favorite among ris found in the song.
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and electric piano, backed by Barker's Colorado resident, wrote it, and she moved to the electric piano for a song
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Hinojosa’s singing on “Too Long
Time,” a Crystal Gayle hit, displayed
her control, ranging from clear lows to
Author recalls outlandish Hawaiian vacation
By Darron Spohn
Staff Writer
Singer brings high notes of quality
Hinojosa showed her songwriting
versatility on "Amanecer” (the dawn),
written and sung in Spanish. Even to
this non-Spanish-speaking listener, it
brought out the quiet beauty of a rural
sunrise.
Hinojosa moved back to the guitar for
Tom Paxton’s "A Lesson Too Late for
the Learning.” She reached deep
within herself for the soul-searching
emotions of lost, love and regretted
actions.
Hinojosa's and Barker's music show-
ed professionalism at its best. They
sang perfect harmonies, and Barker’s
tasteful bass filled in where his wife’s
playing led.
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Folk fans may also have recognized French within the song. Again, her end of January,” she said. "We’ll be go-
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Thompson’s writing. Bad craziness.
The gonzo style carries on in this
book, but Thompson does make valid as calmly as a normal person. Especial-
ringing high notes. She reached each ex-Monkee Michael Nesmith and made
note with easy grace, and both musi- famous by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band,
cians played impeccable guitars. Hinojosa’s singing was not as
They also performed flawlessly on energetic as the Dirt Band’s Jeff Han-
Hinojosa’s "Prairie Moon," which she na’s, but she still captured the plaintive
introduced as "a little cowboy ditty.” ]
brought these qualities to the SAC Ex- This song brings to mind wind-swept scared.
change 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, tumbleweeds and the loneliness of T^--^--------J - n-J u----‘i-
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Cyndi Silquero participates in folk dance seminar.
carrying a violin, harmonica, string bass and a girl during their courtship. When
and accordion. They played and sang they realized their true love, the cou-
medley of Russian songs. pie froze in an embrace while other
T__ ” ? an incredibly dusty floor dancers frolicked about them.
which threw clouds of dust about the Suddenly, three ominous-looking
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the performance was outstanding. Romeo, leaving the girl shocked and
Comments about the annoying dust distressed. She hovered over her lover
trickled through the audience, but the while others mourned for her loss, of-
applause following the dances in- fering their concern as they left the
The silver anniversary program also dicated the appreciation and enjoy- stage.
honored the "grande dame" of the folk ment of those attending. One of the most lively and entertain-
- ... The folk dancers performed dances ing numbers was performed by a group
from Spain, Yugoslavia. Mexico, whose costume could not begin to
Poland, the United States, France, compete with the elegant wardrobe of
Russia and Bulgaria with beautiful the other folk dance groups^
grace, precision, and what seemed to ‘ ~
be a great deal of enjoyment by the Cloggers, rendered
dancers themselves. Dancers whooped
and hollered throughout some of the
more lively choreography.
Flamingo dancers twirled around on
feet behind them- kicking the extend- dancing,” by performing certain steps
As a special tribute to Drury, a group
A fILM EXTRAVAGANZA
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odd spectacle of two generations of
fihally turning-20 years later-into
runners."
With the marathon out of the way,
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flowers and streamers, the SAC dancers during several of the numbers,
Folkdancers celebrated its 25th Inter- the performance was (--------- „ , , ,
national Folk Dance Festival Saturday Comments about the annoying dust distressed. She hovered^over her lover
in the auditorium of McAllister Fine
Arts Center.
they left the
fering their concern
Hinojosa seemed to find her entire
vocal talents on Townes VanZandt’s
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welf-rehearsed, impressively-delivered Thomas’ show two weeks ago may recorded by Willie Nelson. Emmylou
have remembered the next song, Harris recorded it several years ago, and
"Georgetown, Colorado.” Hinojosa Hinojosa delivered all the emotion Har-
writers. Hinojosa played acoustic guitar folk singers. She said Gary Spahar, a
wondered why no one has had a hit
with it.
crazy. Thompson and Steadman turned to
Steadman accompanied Thompson their vacation. But, alas, a hurricane in-
on his fact-finding missions in those tervened. Undaunted, Thompson hired
days. His artistic style is as gonzoed as a fishing boat and headed for the (very) his marlin, and the natives mistook the
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But Thompson never does anything returned Lono, god of all things
comments on the socio-politics of ly marlin fishing in a Pacific hurricane,
running. The captain and the first mate wired
"Run for your life, sport, because themselves on mescaline. Thompson must be full of madmen, ranting
that’s all you have left. The same peo- joined in. Then the captain dived over- lunatics bent on destroying the tourist
pie who burned their draft cards in the board to secure the anchor, forgetting industry. But the book, with Stead-
'60s and got lost in the 70s are now in- the little vial in his pocket. 1
to running. '
"Well, these are, after all, the '80s,
and the time has finally come to see
who has teeth and who doesn’t.... at all of taking our last bottle of
Which may or may not account for the stimulant down with him....
odd spectacle of two generations of "Any fool who will dive to the bot-
political activists and social anarchists tom of the Pacific Ocean with two
grams of cocaine in his pocket is
capable of anything at all; and now he a bottle of whisky nearby. If you don’t
was losing his grip to the psychedelics. 1:1----- ‘
lively choreography.
This group, the Fire-on-the-Mountain
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palachian style of cloggipg to brisk
bluegrass music, while sporting faded
bluejeans and ragged shirts.
The cloggers revealed their expertise
stage in gowns which trailed several at precision clogging, also called "jig
tional Folk Dancers graced the stage ed ruffle up and about; twirling fans in for each particular part of the music,
depicting a variety of folk dances their hands in synch with the guitarist. / y --
throughout the world. Many dances told stories considered of alumni from past campus folkdance
The University of Texas students also "nlrl favnritps" through the ases. In groups performed a dance from
displayed their talents by playing
several musical instruments in-
digenous to the region whose dance
and song they were performing. In one
number, five students came onstage
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