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Demonstrators in Boston will gather in Copley Square at noon and march to the Boston Common bandstand where the main rally will begin at about...
...toughest adjustment was to the audiences, who were literally a far cry from politely attentive classical listeners. "Can we have a little quiet at Table Five, please?" Roberta would call out hopefully. Sometimes she would flee to her dressing room, vowing tearfully not to return to the bandstand until the clatter subsided. "I'd tell her to go on back out," recalls Wilkerson. " 'Some day they'll listen...
...calling themselves the Sheiks, are putting together a good-time style of light rock, slightly reminiscent of the Mamas and Papas, covering tunes by the Band and Chuck Berry. And when certain folk and blues luminaries are passing through this city, they may make an unscheduled trip to the bandstand at Jack's, as Rosalie Sorrels did recently. But without question, the finest blues music yet heard in a local bar will be happening soon, when Zircon brings Junior Wells and Buddy Guy from Chicago, a date which is tentatively scheduled for next month...
...host of Bandstand before Dick Clark...
...celebrazione, a party, an old-fashioned T-shirt, hot-dog and straw-hat festival of ethnic pride. Manhattan's Columbus Circle was roofed with plastic streamers in red, white and green, the colors of the old country. The guy wires hummed in the breeze as an organ on the bandstand piped out random tunes for the early arrivals. Vendors set up rows of gaily colored booths to sell buttons (WE'RE NO. l), pennants (ITALIAN POWER!) and other paraphernalia of prideful protest. Now, in the already shimmering morning heat, the buses came rolling in from Corona in Queens, Bensonhurst...