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1 This Week in USC History
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music
FESTIVAL
COLUMBIA. SOUIN CAROL IRA
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Lead singer J. T. Taylor of Kool & The Gang performs at 3 Rivers Music Festival on Friday night
Legendary and rookie performers entertain the masses
at annual Columbia musical event
by Erin O’Neal
The Gamecock
Woodstock had three days of peace,
love and rock ‘n’ roll — the Vista in
Columbia had three days of intense
traffic, overpriced food and
prompt police, who ended Tonic’s Saturday night
performance exactly at midnight.
The Columbia Police Department told Tonic
to cut its encore short after they finished playing
“You Waited More.”
“We wanna play another [song] for you, but
we’ve just been informed by the police department
to turn off,” said Emerson Hart, Tonic’s lead singer.
“I’ve been in these jails, and I don’t wanna do it
again, so sorry.”
Tonic managed to get a good mix of both old
and new songs, including “Mean To Me” and “If
You Could Only See,” which was met with lavish
cheers and applause from the audience.
The band made sure to thank people for coming
out and showing their appreciation for the music.
“[To] the people who are willing to come out
of their houses, get drunk, party and fell down, thank
you for supporting music,” Hart said. “We’re very
fortunate to do what we do and play with who we
play with.”
Saturday was especially momentous ior uravin
Melon, which gave its final Columbia performance
earlier that evening on the Alternative Rock
Stage.
“Thank y’all for showing up and sayinggootfcye,”
Doug Jones, Cravin’ Melon’s lead singer, said. “Wfe’ve
got a lot of friends here tonight. Who knows, maybe
we’ll make some more.”
Jones announced his intentions of quitting to
the rest of the band after a Charleston show in January.
He said money issues and the lack of radio play of
their recent songs were his reasons.
Despite a few technical difficulties, the group
members seemed to enjoy themselves. Neither
the band nor the audience allowed the knowledge
that this was one of Cravin’ Melon’s last performances
to dampen the mood.
Better Than Ezra took the stage 15 minutes later
and kicked things up a notch with the opener, “King
of New Orleans.” The group even previewed
“Extraordinary,” a cut off its not-yet released album,
Early In the Morning.
Ezra played some fen favorites, and a good portion
of its performance involved audience participation.
They even picked someone out of the crowd to
perform “This Time of Year” on stage with the band.
Meanwhile, at the Classic Rock and Country
Stage, John Michael Montgomery made his way to
the stage on crutches with a broken leg.
“I had choreographed this whole show tonight,
but I’m just going to have to stand up here and sing,”
Montgomery said.
Tho rrnu/H phpprpH lnnHpr at thp Classic Rock
and Country Stage than at the Alternative Rock
Stage, singing along to every song, often drowning
out Montgomery.
However, the main draw of the evening was
Ray Charles, who performed with the 3 Rivers
Orchestra at the Rhythm and Blues Stage. There
was little walking room between the hundreds of
fans sitting in their portable chairs and rocking to
the vocals of one of the biggest names in Rhythm
and Blues history.
Charles’ music sent old and young to their
feet in a standing ovation as Charles ended his
performance.
The festival began Friday with groups such as
Kool & The Gang, Three Dog Night, Gov’t Mule
and Kenny Wayne Shepherd.
Though Kool & The Gang drew the largest
crowd, Kenny Wayne Shepherd put on an impressive
performance.
“He’s just so young, and to be able to play that
well is just great,” graduate student Denise
Golden said. “The whole festival itself was great
... the setup was really good.”
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Danny Hutton, lead singer of Three Dog Night, performs on the WOLQ/Dick Dyer
Pepsi/Publix stage. The band has toured regularly since 1986.
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In The News
Academy tells
museum to remove
fake Oscar statue
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Julia
Roberts had to give back her Oscar —
at least, a wax figure of the actress did.
The Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences sent a letter to the
Hollywood Wax Museum asking that it
remove a replica of an Oscar statue
from its wax figure of Roberts.
Museum spokesman John
Blanchette said the fake Oscar came
from a souvenir shop next door. The
statue was placed in the wax figure’s
arms March 23 in anticipation of
Roberts’ best-actress win for Erin
Brockovich at the Oscar ceremony two
days later.
Such use of an Oscar replica
violated the academy’s trademark
rights, said spokeswoman Leslie Unger.
“The statuette is our copyrighted
property, and it is not something
available for use in any context that
somebody else might think to use it
in,” Unger said.
The wax museum agreed to
remove the fake Oscar.
“We have complied, but we felt
bullied, and the wax figure isn’t happy
either,” Blanchette said.
Digital art project
to be directed
by Harvard president
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Life
after Harvard for outgoing president
Neil L. Rudenstine will combine his
lifelong passion for art with technology
in a project designed to bring digital
images to students, teachers and
scholars.
Rudenstine, who leaves Harvard in
June, will head a new project to create
a digital collection of images of art,
architecture and other objects.
A scholar of Renaissance literature,
Rudenstine will serve as chairman of
the new nonprofit organization
ArtSTOR. The project is sponsored by
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
“This is an exciting new
undertaking that holds great promise
for enhancing the study of the arts and
humanities around the world,”
Rudenstine told The Boston Globe.
He will lead an advisory group
within the organization to determine
the archive’s content and the way the
database will be designed.
Plans call for an early phase of the
project to include about 250,000
images that would be used in university
art history classes. Other parts of the
plan include digitizing more obscure
artwork and creating standards for
cataloging such work.
Universities, museums and others
users will be asked to subscribe to the
service, but the price structure and
date of availability haven’t been set.
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary
Lawrence H. Summers is the next
Harvard president.
National musicians
to hold concert
for South Africa
LONDON (AP) — Nelson Mandela
is expected to be in the audience when
R.E.M., Spice Girl Mel B and The
Corrs from Ireland perform at a
concert this month to celebrate South
Africa Freedom Day.
The event is set for April 29 at
Trafalgar Square, outside the South tv
African High Commission. The four
hour concert will benefit the Nelson
Mandela Children’s Fund and The
Prince’s Trust, a charity Prince Charles
established.
Other stars on the bill include
Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Hugh
Masekela and Atomic Kitten.
South African High Commissioner
Cheryl Carolus said the celebration had
been in the planning stages for two
years, but permission to seal off
Trafalgar Square didn’t come until
Wednesday.
“All the artists are giving their
services for free. For all of them, it’s
for nothing and for the love of South
Africa. I’m not sure what the
commercial value is, but it’s huge
when you think of the artist lineup,”
Carolus said.