Free
Poetry Contest Open to Chicago Heights Residents
Greetings
from DanceAfrica Chicago!
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Chicago!
Art
Of Makin' Music Foundation Hosts Inaugural Event
Newly
crowned Face of Africa 2000 Winner Nombulelo Mazibuko Poised to make American
debut
McDONALD'S
CREATES THE MUSIC EVENT OF THE SUMMER
"HOT
JAZZ - SIX COOL NITES" PAYS TRIBUTE TO BILL EVANS
INTERNATIONAL
FESTIVAL OF LIFE TOUR, SET FOR MARQUETTE PARK BEACH, GARY, INDIANA, JULY
29TH & 30th
FIRST-EVER
MONTREUX FESTIVAL ON TOUR HOLDS CHICAGO JAM SESSION WITH FIVE JAZZ LEGENDS
CHICAGO'S
SOUTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD GOSPEL FEST
Chicago
Human Rhythm project celebrates 10th Year
DuSable
Museum presents Senior Appreciation Day on July 24th Featuring Shirley
King and The Blues Boys
MUSICAL
COMEDY-DRAMA "THIS FAR BY FAITH" RETURNS TO eta THURSDAY JULY 20th THROUGH
AUGUST 27, 2000
Jamaica's
Ziggy Marley Ready To Quit The Music Business?
MEE
Film to Make Ancient Egypt Relevant to Today's Hip-Hop Generation
AHN
"Monthly Movie Classics" will Broadcast Juice-A Tribute to the Late Tupac
Shakur
Khalilah
Ali Challenges Movie on Life of Former Husband Muhammad Ali
Jimmy
Cliff to Headline Int'l Festival of Life - July 4, Independence Celebration
Illinois
Philharmonic Orchestra Performs Free 4th of July Concert at Chicago Heights
CrossRoads Fest
Disney
Channel Premiers in the Park offers Chicago-area families a free night
of Original entertainment for all ages
Holyfield
Foundation Announces main event Weekend 2000
JEWEL-OSCO
AND WBEE 1570AM ARE JAZZIN UP FOR A HEALTHY CHICAGO
Municipal
Band Concert Schedule
Sears
to send six lucky customers to Soul Train 'Lady of Soul' Awards
Why
Shaft Should Be Shafted
'The Grandma
Tree: A Folk Fable' opens at ETA Thursday, May 25 through July 9
Miles and 'Trane
CHICAGO - The power and beauty of
the simple, honest wisdom of the elders is explored in "The Grandma Tree:
A Folk Fable' by Benard Cummings. Directed by Delia Coy Gray, the show
opens Thursday, May 25 through Sunday, July 9, 2000 at eta Square, 7558
S, South Chicago Avenue. Presented by eta Creative Arts Foundation, performances
are at 8:00 p,m, Thurs. thru Sat.; 3:00 & 7:00 p.m, Sundays. General
admission is $20; $10 for students, seniors and groups of 10 or more. For
tickets and information, call eta at 773-752-3955.
"The Grandmama Tree: A Folk Fable'
is the story of what happens when the frustrations of the younger generation
come face to face with the folk wisdom of the elders. In director Gray's
words, "What better tale to tell than that of a young male who finds in
the affirming presence of an old woods woman, his path to responsibility
and true manhood."
"The Grandma Tree" was commissioned
by the Actor's Theatre of Louisville's New Play Development Program. It
has received extensive workshops with The Juneteenth Festival of New African
American Plays in Louisville, Kentucky, the New Harmony Project and with
The Drama League in NYC. It received its world premiere at The Stamford
Theatre Works in Stamford, Connecticut It has also been produced by The
Jubilee Theatre of Ft. Worth, Texas. "The Grandmama Tree" is the 1998 recipient
of the Theodore Ward prize for playwriting, presented by Columbia College
Chicago.
The cast features Ira Carol McGill,
Elizabeth Shivers, Eliyannah A. Yisrael, Edward Lee Shines III and Quinton
T. James. Understudies are 'Serious" Charles Gardner and Thetu K. Mwawiki
Cummings' other plays include "Your
Obituary is a Dance" and "Here Am I, Send Me,' which was part of the recent
inaugural season of the Juneteenth Theatre in Louisville. As an actor,
he has worked extensively in regional theater, on TV and in film. He is
a graduate of the Yale School of Drama (MF.A.), Southern Methodist University
(B.F.A.) and Tyler Junior College. A native Texan, Cummings lives in New
York City.
"This play is my attempt at showing
how that incredible homespun intelligence of our mostly illiterate ancestors
is perhaps as equally valid as anything put down by a Eurocentric philosopher,"
says Cummings "For their wisdom came out of hard work under the burning
sun; from daily degradation of their humanity; and from the sheer power
to overcome the evils of racism."
Also opening in the eta Gallery May
25 - July 9, 2000 is a mixed media group show by visual artists Harry Detry
Roman Villarreal and Sura P. DuPart. Originally from the West Indies, Detry
is a multi-talented artist whose powerful paintings, sculptures and jewelry
designs have earned him numerous honors for over two decades Villarreal,
"a sculptor of the people" has been producing sculpture in many media for
more than 20 years. He currently works in limestone and teaches his craft
to teens in Englewood through the Arts Employment Training Program of Boulevard
Arts Center. He is of Mexican American heritage, born and raised near the
steel mills on Chicago's southeast side. DuPart began his three decades
of artistry working in oils The native Chicagoan has also worked in wood
and metal ire has been creating with stone sculpture for the past 5 years.
His work is included in the DuSable Museum's collection of Chicago artists
and shown in special exhibit at the University of IFE, in Ife, Nigeria.
The opening reception for the exhibition
will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 25. For more information, call
eta at 773-752-3955.
For collectors, the beauty of The
Complete Miles Davis and John Coltrane (Columbia/Legacy) is that it puts
three hours of music by one of the greatest groups in jazz history in one
neat box. But for listeners who wish to understand the emotional roots
of jazz, this set is revelation. The music spans 1955 to 1991, including
Davis' re-formed original quintet of 1957. That band was a compendium of
cutting-edge players who blended perfectly with Davis. Saxophonist Cannonball
Adderly was lyrical, mercurial and rooted in the blues. Pianist Bill Evans
brought modality, subtle harmony and composition. Coltrane called Paul
Chambers "One of the greatest bass players in jazz." Hard-driving drummer-Philly
Joe Jones rounded out the group. But the power behind this band was Coltrane,
jazz's most revolutionary saxophonist. 'Trane reflects the turbulence of
the time, though he was not yet playing all that he wanted. His depth and
insatiable appetite for expression are evident.
In most pieces, you hear the contrast
of Adderley's facile lyricism with Coltrane's straining, even within Davis'
liberating modal forms. 'Trane's biographer, Bill Cole, once heard him
play one phase 29 times. "Miles pulled he cuff on 'Trane's pants so he
would move into something different," Cole says. "'Trane sprang into a
completely new line, like being launched out of Cape Kennedy." These musicians
have all passed on. But this music like the human spirit, is eternal. Four
decades later, it resonates.