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8d||w[H ' iHf Si ' Mr ?>^.'?r^-?>;; '"' Pf!!fx'^3? The Drifters, part of Beach Weekend Beach weekend planned at Carowinds CHARLOTTE, N.C. ? Labor Day weekend will be a special treat for beach music lovers as Carowinds theme park hosts a special Beach Weekend featuring five top beach groups. The Chairmen Of The Board, The Prophets and The Drifters will perform on Saturday, Sept. 1. The Embers, The Chairmen Of The Board, The Drifters (2 p.m. show only) and Maurice Williams and The Zodiacs will appear on Sunday, Sept. 2. Park officials noted that the concerts will be at 2 and 7 p.m. each day in the 9,000-seat outdoor Paladium amphitheater. Beach music is a distinct Southeastern sound that is especially I popular on college campuses and at Carolina beaches. r Tunes sucn as tne Drifters' "Up On The Hoof" and "Under The Boardwalk" and The Embers' current chart hit "I Love Beach Music" are typical of the beach music sound. Other beach music favorites that will be heard in the Carowinds r Paladium on Labor Day weekcim are "Give Me Just A Little More Time" and "You've Got Me Dangling On A String" by The Chairmen Of The Board; and "Stay," "May I" and "Do You Believe?" by Maurice Williams and The Zodiacs. Admission to the beach music concerts at Carowinds on Labor Day weekend will be $2 in addition to the regular $7.95 park admission. Carowinds, located 10 miles south of Charlotte on 1-77 at the North Carolina/South Carolina border, is now open weekends only (Saturdays and Sundays) through October 14. The park has announced that it has changed its operating schedule in order to be open on Labor Day Monday, Sept. 3. "We've noticed that more people are traveling later on into the summer/' noted Carowinds General Manager Lew Hooper. "We want to give those people traveling on Labor Day Monday the option of visiting Caro winds." Carowinds began its weekends-only fall schedule on Aug. 19. The 73acre theme park will be open only on Saturdays and Sundays until its I season ends on Oct. 14. Mn.Qir Dpnart new jazz prog D.. ?%!.. J.. r>___ oy v/Hiuy wboii OarrMcock Staff Writ** Carolina students will be introduced to all that jazz Ai.f_ a. ___ it mir f _ rv a. 1 _ ** mis semester wnen uie music ueparunem oners a new jazz program featuring a potpourri of courses for music majors, jazz lovers and just plain ordinary folks. What we re trying to develof. with some very marketable era Professor John Emche, a former graduate tPArhincr assistant in iazz at Ohio State and now with Carolina, explains, "We're developing the jazs program now. In the past we've had a jazz ensembh J which was a 20-piece band, and that was about it ' Now the Music Department is supporting a variety o jazz courses and we're hoping to offer a major ii what we're hoing to call Jazz Commericial Music." Some of the courses which will be offered are Jaz; W ... 9 A r.4 1! _ a -! 1 n improvisation , atuaio Arranging unu v^unipusiuun and American Popular Music. Emche believes that Carolina's jazz program wil have advantages over other jazz programs whicl aren't as extensive. He said, "We're also going t< have jazz combos, which will be smaller jazz groups In fact we're going to be stressing this because it*: sort of a trend for every large university to b ?lA?*AlAMinr( inrvrv rv* O Klff WIAci Af fVlATI UCVC1U^1I15 Ul^Ii J 11*4. pi 1/51 aiuo, wuv uivwv VI viivii stress the big band. "We'll be putting emphasis on combo because w get more at the real heart of jazz thrugh them. A res x our Secretary JiJULUt V 3803 Devine St. 884-6309 Krs. 0-5 Hon. - Tvi. ! Fast Service L= a ^ M iTir mi^ii VII I Family Fit Please can sor Two locations c DENT8VILLE X306 ST. ANDREWS Interi l / % ?v?* a %' ; ment offering rams, courses hit? nlpmpnt in i?z7. is imnrovisation ? it haDDens on the spot ? it's created right there." In addition to the performing courses, another course entitled Jazz and American Popular Music will focus on the different styles in jazz, such as ragtime and dixieland, over the past 70 years. "This i is a student who'll leave here fts.' 5 is the course," Emche explains, "that we're i especially looking for non-music majors to be in." s Emche continues, "What we're trying to develop is a student wnon leave nere wiin some very f marketable crafts. In other words, you always hear ? about the starving artist or the starving musician. Well, when somebody who leaves here is involved s with performing groups they'll be prepared to play the heavier kinds of jazz situations. "They'll also be able to write jingles for radio r _ 1.M. _ A. ll i commercials or wrue songs ior singers wnne ai uie i same time they'll have a very legitimate music > education background." 5 If anyone needs more information on these jazzy g developments, call John Emche at 777-6565. Also if i anyone has a little vocal pizzaz and is interested in singing. Emche comments, "We need singers. e Anyone interested in performing with the jazz en1 semble can get in touch with me.'' \ Resumes f| I m I jl gjlj.ii jreipera Contracts Bond Copies r Re ports I Thesis j Typing J Letters ^ | - i iLUim | ness Clinic 1 an appointment D^vvnieni. iv uav. | Dccker Blvd. 736'OQIO I section Center 772*2607 I - . v v- ' ' ; . vL * ' x:\ v . : + < ,/v", :> /\? -: . - ,*V : .