What's Happenin'

What's Happenin'

A BLUES JAM DANCE PARTY will be presented by the Friends of the SUN this Friday, January 24th in the Michigan Union Ballroom. Featured band is Willie William's Stars of Stars Chicago Blues Revue which includes Lucille Spann on vocals, Carey Bell on harmonica, Sunnyland-Slim on piano and three other Chicago sidepeople. The show starts stomping at 9pm, going until 1am, with admission $3.00. For more on just what kind of time to expect and who these blues greats are, see page 19

ANN ARBOR MUSIC hits a high for this bi-week at the Blind Pig Friday and Saturday, January 24, and 25 with the Detroit jazz artistry of Tribe, featuring Wendell Harrison and Charles Moore...Bimbo's of Ypsilanti offers the famed rock and roll band of Ann Arbor and Detroit, the Rockets Friday & Saturday, January 24th and 25th.

The UAC concert co-op presents Linda Ronstadt at Hill Auditorium Tuesday night, January 21. Linda's was the voice of the Stone Ponies, "You and I travel to the beat of a different drum, la di da." Since then she's recorded several solo albums and received increasing attention. Tickets are available at the Michigan Union for $6.00, $5.50, $5.00, and $4.00.

DETROIT JAMS bring nirvana to earth with Pharoah Sanders at Baker'ss Keyboard Lounge for 7 days beginning January 24...European jazzman Michael Urbaniak will also be appearing at Baker's earlier, January 17...For all you heavy metal freaks there's none other than Iron Butterfly at the Michigan Concert Palace along with what remains of Spirit, that's on January 25...Lynard Skynard brings it back from Sweet Home Alabam' at Ford Auditorium on January 20...Tracy Nelson, one of the outstanding female rock vocalists around, formerly of the band Mother Earth, graces the halls of the Savoy on the 24th of January...Howlin' Wolf will appear at the Savoy starting Wednesday, January 29th...One of the notable nobility of swing, Count Basie, plays the Detroit Music Hall Sunday January 26, at 6:30pm.

STATE OF SEIGE. another Costa-Gavras inspirational film is being presented as part of the Friends of the SUN International Film Series at MLB3 Wednesday, January 20, at 7 & 9 pm. Urban guerillas of Uraguay, the Tupamaros, kidnap a CIA-AID agent as part of their revolutionary struggle...The Frame-Up Film Festival begins this week with the film Fortune and Men 's Eyes, Monday, January 20th, at 7:30, Aud. C, Angell Hall. A young man is jailed for marijuana possession in this powerful Canadian film, which deals essentially with homosexuality in prison. Sponsored primarily by the Inmate Project of Project Community, the series' theme is adequately expressed by the maxim "Show me how a nation treats its prisoners and I will tell you everything about its people."

GENE RODDENBERRY. sci-fi author as well as the creator and producer of spaced-out Star Trek, will be speculating Inside Science Fiction, Outside The World, at 8pm, Hill Auditorium, U-M campus, January 20th for admission of $1.00...The following week Future Worlds presents for free a lecture by Al Lithman on Auroville, an Evolving Alternative Future, utopia or bust.

TUNING IN THE TUBE for these next couple of weeks, we find parts 3 and 4 of the One Man's China PBS series. Part three focuses on China's economic self-reliance, and it's ability to continue without foreign investments or loans, on Channel 56, Tuesday January 21st, 9:30 pm. Part 4, entitled The People's Army is the first film to give Western audiences an inside picture of the Chinese Army--a vast school of politics, engineering, agriculture as well as a fighting force. That's Tuesday night, January 28th, 9:30 pm...Movie for a Sunday afternoon, if you got the time, is Citizen Kane. starring and directed by Orson Welles. A 1941 Academy Award winning great in cinematography, if you haven't caught Kane yet, be sure to on Sunday January 26, 1 pm on Channel 50.

Lucille Spann at the Union.

Pharoah Sanders at Bakers.

MLB3 Wed. Jan. 29 at 7&9 pm.