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Meet "The New Jed Clampitt for the Millennium." His name is Bela Fleck. He might not have a mansion in Beverly Hills (yet), but he does know how to play the banjo. That doesn't sound like much, but he sure does. And saying he can play the banjo might just be the understatement of the century...
Some combinations were simply destined to be together. Like make-your-own waffles and Sundays, formal wear and banjo music make the perfect couple. Maybe the people in Deliverance never sat around sipping tea and listening to music, but that's just because they didn't stop by Black Tie Banjo. 2:30 to 4 p.m., Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Ladies Committee Gallery, 465 Huntington Ave., Boston, 617-267-9300. FREE...
...elaborate official homepage, complete with commentary from Billboard magazine. The less-mainstream Oregon group Duoglide offers up a "listening guide" for their "Song Noir" album, which they claim sounds like "cheap hotels, smoke, neon, martinis, and danger"; how they can produce this effect with two people and a banjo is a question for the ages. Another site features musical acts from the Vancouver area; this month keep an ear out for COAL, which claims to be the only "ethereal psychedelic western noir lounge act" around, perhaps because no other bands have any idea what the hell that means...
...near life-size, black silhouette in Walker's current Carpenter Center exhibition features a black man hunched over a banjo, a long drop of drool descending from his distended lower lip. Behind him, a kerchief-capped girl reaches to turn the enormous screw-key sprouting from his back like that of a wind up doll. Recalling the tradition of black minstrelsy, the key also suggests a brutally-planed pair of scissors--a silhouette cutter's tool craftily inscribed within the silhouette. This image alone might be taken as an icon for the controversy surrounding Walker's work, as viewers question...
...STUBBY KAYE, 79, rotund and riotous singer; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Once billed as the "extra padded attraction," Kaye put every pound to showstopping effect as he rocked the boat--and Broadway--in the original Guys and Dolls. He played Nicely-Nicely Johnson onscreen too, as well as a banjo-playing minstrel in the frontier spoof Cat Ballou...