BRIEFLY.Byline: The Register-Guard Radiohead tour film will make stop at WOW Hall The WOW Hall, 291 W. Eighth Ave., will host two screenings of the 1999 Radiohead documentary `Meeting People Is Easy' at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. today. The film, which follows the band on its `OK Computer' World Tour, examines the business of public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most by focusing on the blur of interviews, photo sessions, press junkets and other promotional appearances required of the group. Director Grant Gee uses Super-8 and hand-held cameras to capture the storm of activity. Tickets to today's showings are $5 at the door. Hackberry Ramblers The Hackberry Ramblers (also known as the Riverside Ramblers), a Grammy Award-nominated Cajun music band based in Hackberry, Louisiana, formed in 1933. Since its heyday in the late 1930s it has become one of the most recognized names and influential groups in Cajun music. are still rollin' after 70 years The Cajun/country-western swing band the Hackberry Ramblers are the subject of "Make 'em Dance," a film airing on Oregon Public Broadcasting's KEPB at 11 p.m. Tuesday. Led by two of its founding members - fiddler Luderin Darbone, age 90, and accordionist Edwin Duhon, age 93 - the group still is going strong after 70 years. The film explores the relationship between Darbone and Duhon, who met as teenagers in Hackberry hackberry: see elm. , La. It recounts some rich anecdotes, including tours down unpaved roads and into the kinds of honky-tonk dives where carrying a knife was necessary. The film also includes scenes of the band playing inside the MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. studios in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , at the New Orleans Jazz New Orleans Jazz can refer to:
Tango outfit gets in the mood for some punk art Mood Area 52 will celebrate the drawings of punk rock illustrator Raymond Pettibon in a 9:30 p.m. performance Saturday at Sam Bond's Garage, 407 Blair Blvd. The tango act presents a narrative based on 17 drawings taken from records and magazines from the 1980s. The headliner for the evening is the old-time music group, the Cafe Ramblers. The cover is $5. - The Register-Guard |
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