AIRW\VES · A Service of Continuing Education and Extension - lm University of Minnesota, DL:Jluth VO~. 1, NUMBER 8 JUNE 1980 A CONVERSATION WITH SONNY ROLLINS SEE PAGE 6 Give a. Gift of Music Give a gift membership in WDTH to someone you love. They will receive "Airwaves" free of charge for a year, as well as the satisfaction of supporting a worthwhile cause. Your donation is TAX DEDUCTIBLE. I'd like to buy a gift membership for: Name ______________________ Street ------'--------------------- City _________ State _______ Zip ____ Enclosed is my membership check for: $20 regular $30 family $10 fixed income & students $50 sustaining $100 Century Club Other___ _ Mail to: WDTH, 130 H, UMD, Duluth, Minnesota 55812 2 \.... I SUPPORT PUBLIC the Listener RADIO Reoort Airwaves is a monthly publication of WDTH-FM, the public radio station at the University of Minne- MARATHON! to be sure that we weren't going coming months, and it could set the sota. Duluth. A yearly membership anywhere. stage for a renovation of our space in the in WDTH costs just $20. Member- Two hundred sixty-three new members future. ship entitles you to receive "Air- and 90 members ofWDTH from the fall It's impossible to stay disappointed waves" mailed directly to your marathon pledged $6,500 to WDTH with someone like that in your corner, SENIORS PROJECT home. during our pledge weekend May 16, 17, and with 900 people like that, I can't be and 18. While we fell short of our goal, anything but ecstatic. We were stunned to receive news that Write or call us at University of the total for the year still works out to an our seniors project would not be funded Minnesota, Duluth, 130 Humani- impressive $21,500 from 900 pledgers. Thank you to all who pledged, and to for the coming fiscal year. While ties Bldg., Duluth, Minnesota Considering that it is our first year of all the volunteers who make this station funding seemed assured until the last 55812, 218-726-7181. l~stener support, the total is impressive. possible and who made this marathon a minute, and the reviewers were success. Some of the volunteers leaving favorable to the project, it turned out WDTH STAFF The high point of many high points in our area and the station include: Karen that they had less than half the money Station Manager ..... Tom Livingston Collins, Pat Regan, Anna Cole, John this marathon came for me 1n the last they had last year. Program Director ... .. J ohn Ziegle r fifteen minutes of the weekend. All day Layton and Don Rosacker. Ass t. Program Director .. Pa ul Schmit7 Sunday had been very quiet, mostly We are in the process of searching for Engineering .... .. .. ... Peder Nelson because of the beautiful weather. It was I'm sure there are more, and if I missed funds to continue the program. especially quiet during the last two you, my apologies and thanks. Seni ors Project . ....... Jea n J ohnson hours, and it became clear that we WIND POWER The University of Minnesota is weren't going to make the goal. But in MORE GOOD NEWS those last' few minutes, I got a call from Our wind power proposal is still alive, committed to the policy that all a listener in the Cable area who only We've gotten final confirmation on the though we will be rewriting and persons shall have equal access to pledged $5, but who talked for several additional space we will receive from resubmitting it to other possible it's programs, facilities, and em- minutes about how important the the University. We will be adding the funding sources. I will post you as ployment without regard to race, stations was to him, and how he wanted space to our current facility in the developments occur. creed, color, sex, national origin, or handicap. · TOM LIVINGSTON, STATION MANAGER A recent weekend saw the playing of the It's a good idea. A question that 12th Annual Ashland Folk Festival at plagued the Bangladesh concert, film Northland College in Ashland. This and album that should be asked here is event has become one of the the amount of money that will actually prerequisites' for spring, like smelting, go to anti-nuclear work. That aside, the the first ore boat, and the first Buster Bar musical content is somewhat lacking. of the year. Both Bonnie Raitt and Crosby, Stills & Nash are in less than top form, and I feel I The festival is exactly what folk music the overall song selection was The Vinyl Blow means to me: it's comfortable. The uninspired. The two exceptions to .; iat ·l by Tom Livingston Winnipeg Festival has become too big, come at the close of side one with Johr. and most of the others, too far away, so Hall's "Plutonium is Forever", and an Ashland is our festival. ensemble on "Power", songs that l capture anti-nuke feelings well. I I' Folk music happens when a bunch of recommend this album (which sells for ! people get together in someone's house around $15) to 1) someone who doesn't to play, and it's totally spontaneous and already own albums by these artists. informal; sort of First person music. A (They ARE all top-notch performers & I good folk festival is like that, and influences in contemporary music) or 2) Ashland is a good festival. This year I if you are half-activist/ half-music fan. went only to the workshops, and at the acapella workshop 10 or 12 people sat On the other hand, if you are interested around a fire in the fireplace of a lounge mostly in tnusic, buy th?ee Gil Scott- in one of the Campus dormitories and Heron or Bonnie Raitt albums instead, almost everyone contributed a song or and if nuclear activism is your thing, l,. twol I still don't know who was give the money to the Union of "performer" and who "audience". Concerned Scientists or better y~t, give l it directly to a local anti-nuclear For musicians, folk festivals are a place organization. to get together, swap songs, and have a good time. This happens at nearly all of Speaking of time, timing has been a big the various festivals around the factor in the success of nimble-fingered country. Only at the really small guitarist Norman Blake. Blake festivals like Ashland does the audience appeared on the scene with his get into the act. lightning fast runs and crisp flat-pick style after musicians like Clarence Last month I talked about resurrecting White, and Doc Watson had begun to the past in the form of "The Rose", a show the potential of the instrument. movie about a 60's rock star. This month I'll start with another attempt of He became a relatively large success, the same, kind. and has since put records out regularly that have sold quite well. The problem "No Nukes" (Asylum ML-801), with this heavy exposure is that Blake's features some of the biggies who formed melodic and lyric inventiveness has not an organization called M. U .S.E. always been up to it, and the result has (M.;sicians United for Safe Energy). been uneven quality. The group then performed a series of benefit Madison Square Garden A less kind friend has tagged the style Concerts, and from those made a threes "Chicken Picking". While he doesn't album set complete with pictures and a break any daring new ground on his story book. All proceeds from the new album "The Rising Fawn String concert and record sales go to a Ensemble" (Rounder 0122) the foundation that will dole it out to anti- addition of Fiddler James Bryan, and nuclear groups around the country. the mixture of slow and fast tunes makes Blake's return to Rounder . Records rank with his best. I recommend it to Norman Blake fans, Pictured at 1'eft: and also those interested in flat-pick The Gogebic Tambutitzan's entertain guitar who don't own any Blake. If at the 12th Annual Ashland Folk you've been dissatisfied in his recent Festival. work, try to listen to it before you buy. I . 3 Week- At A Glance , Mon.-Thurs. Friday Saturday Sunday -- 6:00 Awakening 6:00 Awakening 7:00 Awakening 7:00 Awakening . 10:00 Press Review (Wed. 10:00 Press Review 12:00 Soul Arrival I 12:00 Soul Arrival Economic Perspectives) 10:15 Mid-Morning Report 3:00 Folk Migrations 2:30 Black Crys From the Ghetto 10:15 Mid-Morning Report 10:30 Album Feature 6:00 Free-Form Program 3:00 Blues N' Things 10:30 Album Feature 11:00 Noon Song 8:00 Third World of Music 6:00 One For the Road 11:00 Noon Song '1:30 First Person Radio 8:30 Equal Voice 7:00 Insight 1:30 M. - Senior Radio Program 2:00 Folk N' Blues 9:00 Jazz Expansions 8:00 Something For Your Head T. - Something For Your Head 4:45 Evening News 12:00 Moondance . 8:30 Marconi's Wireless Theatre W. - Spotlight Psychology' 5:00 Harmony of the Spheres 3:00 Sign-Off 9:00 Jazz Expansions T. - Third World of Music 7:00 Insight 12:00 Moondance 2:00 Workshop 8:00 Jazz Expansions 3:00 Sign-Off 4:45 Evening News 11:00 Moondance ' 5:00 Harmony of the Spheres 3:00 Sign-Off 7:00 Insight 8:00 Jazz Expansions 11:00 Moondance ' -2:00 Sign-Off JUNE __H___,i 9hli9_hts_ MONDAY- 2 Roulette recording "All Because of 7:00 - Tonight on Insight "Women time guitarist for the Who, Peter You".