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The Coat Puller

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
May
Year
1976
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Followers and Friends of WDET-FM, Detroit's only public radio station, will be happy to know that plans are well under way the the establishment of the WDET-FM Community Public Radio Broadcasting Foundation, Inc., the non-profit organization which hopes to operate the station after Wayne State University cuts off funding to WDET at the end of the year (the deadline has recently been extended from June 10th to December 31st). The corporation has been formed, application for tax-exempt status has been made to the federal government, and pledges in any amount are now being taken via the Friends of WDET-FM, 5035 Woodward Avenue, Detroit 48202.
The Foundation has to support its application for the station's license from the FCC with the promise of enough money to run the operation for the first year-some $215,000 - so don't hesitate to call (577-4146) or write in your pledge, which won't be collected until after the license is granted to the Foundation later this year. You can become a Friend by sending $20.00 to the above address, and you might be interested to know that the Friends organization and the WDET staff are planning to commission a community Programming Advisory Board to help provide input on Detroit's programming needs. If you'd like to participate, or you know someone who should, contact the station and let them know what's on your mind. . .
The Motor City music community deeply mourns the loss of alto saxophonist Teddy Buckner, one of the city's premier musicians, who passed away last week at the age of 62. Teddy was a featured member of both the New McKinney's Cotton Pickers and the Jimmy Wilkins Orchestra, and his magnificent presence will be sorely missed. . .
The Northwest Activities Center, 18100 Meyers at Curtis, has an outstanding program of black theatre and dance lined up for the next month or so, with the Group Theatre 's production of Louise Hansberry's "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Wjndow" opening this weekend (April 23 - 25) and continuing April 30 - May 2. "The Life of a King", a drama based on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and performed by a New York touring company, will play the NWAC May 6-7-8, accompanied by Eugene Johnson's "The Idea of Ancestry," performed by the Paul Robeson Players. Johnson is the director of the Center's theatre program, and his work will run May 21 - 23 and 28 - 30 as the single attraction. Penny Golboldo's Writhm Dance Company doses the run June 5 with its first outing al the popular west side playhouse...
Another new cultural outlet, the Compared to What? coffeehouse in the Trinity Methodist Church, Woodward south of Davison in Highland Park, has been drawing " some festive crowds for their superb music - programs this month, including Sam Sanders & Visions (4/9), the legendary Sippie Wallace plus folksingers Mike & Barb Smith (4/16), jazz fusion group Satori (4/23), and next weekend, the (Oakland) Mime Troupe plus Dede Palazolla (4/30). The Friday night concerts are cheap, warm, and flush with the best of Detroit's indigenous musical talent. . .
Don't forget to check out the fast young players who assemble every Saturday night at 2:30 am for Ernie Rodgers' all-night sessions at the RAPA House, 81 East Fisher Freeway (half a block oft Woodward). Admission is only a dollar, the Creole-style food is superb and just as reasonably priced (served until 4:30), and the steady stream of sitters-in is quick and slippery all the time. . .
Local favorite Spanky Wilson took her slick supper-club show into Lowman's Westside Club Easter weekend (16-17-18), backed ever so tastefully by the omnipresent Tribe aggregation (Wendell Harrison, Marcus Belgrave, Phil Ranelin, Harold McKinney, Rod Hicks and Bud Spanner), who executed the sharp commercial charts with no trouble at all, and a sound as big as an orchestra. WJZZ's Bobby Dawson did the mc-ing, Carolyn and Cecil Franklin were there to check it out, and a good time was had by all. . .
Chuck Lowman is talking about converting his spacious layout into a private club, complete with sauna, steam room, gymnasium trips, food, drink, top name music. and the whole works. Remodeling might've already started by the time this hits the the streets. . .
And speaking of Bud Spangler, the popular, WDET-FM personality offered some live tapes of Tribe, recorded during the recent Top of the Week Jazz series at the Langston Hughes Theatre, on his "Jazz Today" show last week, continuing the exciting broadcasts of local jazz recorded at various spots around town. Here's hoping he'll re-run the 1975 Afro-American Festival tapes (Jimmy Wilkins Orchestra, New Detroit Jazz Orchestra, Griot Galaxy, Tribe. Sam Sanders & Visions, and the Lyman Woodard Organization) before too much longer -  they were a total gas!. . .
Buddy Rich and his Big Band Machine steam into Clarenceville High School, 20155 Middlebelt between Six and Seven Mile in Livonia, on Sunday and Monday, May 2-3. backed by the Clarenceville Jazz Ensemble (5/2) and the Northville High Jazz Band (5/3), both starting at 7:30 pm. For ticket information call Midge Ellis at 474-2720. . .
The newly-formed Academy of Video Communicators will hold its first annual Acdemy Awards at the Main Event in Ponmet Stadium May 21st, anti they invite "any organization which has produced a non-broadcast videotape for use in the past 18 months to submit an entry and attend the banquet." For more info call Ed Lamb at 832-0360 or AVC president Martha Kent at 223-1562. . .
Music Hall hosts the mind-altering Hartford Ballet this Friday-Saturday (23 - 24), with the Japanese company Minzoku Buyo Dan following on the 25th (6:30 pm.) And the "Music of the Black Church" series continues May 23rd with "The Sound of Contemporary Gospel," hosted by Martha Jean "The Queen" Steinberg and featuring Jerry Thomas & the Gospel Experience with Nat Townley & the Lighthouse Ensemble. .
The Larry Robinson Chorale of Detroit premiered its leader's new work, "Ain't No New Thing," written with Nadine Spencer and Keith Hunter, at Music Hall April 19. . .
"Adding Machine," a machine -age tragi-comedy, continues at the Detroit Repertory Theatre thru May 9 - look for a feature on this community theatre company in our next issue. . .
Finally. Michiganian Jack Ford, son of President Whitey Ford, has been awarded the first annual American Weed Seed Award by the Daily Beaver magazine, a publication serving local head shops and head products distributors. Jack shoulda got in on our contest, but the DEA probably supplies him with the best stash in the U.S. of A...