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...concert sponsors, said yesterday. (Of course, I am told Sidman is given to statements like "Massachusetts is easily the best state in the Union," and "One is easily the loneliest number there could ever be.") But this time he could be right. Berkeleetrained Van Duser specializes in finger-picking--bluegrass, jazz, classical, and an incredible version of "Stars and Stripes Forever" in which he simultaneously plays bass, melody, and piccolo parts. Novick, who played with David Bromberg for a few years, is mainly a jazz musician...
Sunday at 2 pm, the Boston Bluegrass Union sponsors a concert by Apple Country in the Gutman Library conference room on Appian Way in Cambridge. Admission is $2.50, children free. Banjo workshop and picking after the concert. Call 661-0214 or 965-5785 for details...
Tonight at Peasant Stock Restaurant (354-9528, reservations necessary) the Cheap Trills String Band does it to anyone within earshot with a violin, mandolin, guitar and bass. "Bluegrass, Irish, swing and classical" influences here--could be interesting...
...tonight, both with traditional folk on acoustic guitar. Friday you got Linda Long doing folk and pop and Rodney Mashia playing original folk on flute and guitar. Saturday Jeff Brodsky plays standard acoustic folk, followed by the B Natural Boys with--yeeeeeeehaaaaw!--country and western. (They play some bluegrass, too.) Sunday and Tuesday it's an open stage; Sword is closed Mondays...
Expecting the Worst. To some Washingtonians, Carter's Southern ways seem reason enough to expect the worst. Huffs Page Lee Hufty, a decorative blonde partygiver and -goer: "Bluegrass music in the White House is one thing. But stock-car racing? I'm not so sure about that." Rosalynn Carter's declaration that there will be square dancing at some White House parties has done little to assuage the pervasive jitters. Those who are concerned may have forgotten that the late Marjorie Merriweather Post, long the reigning queen of Washington society, regularly held square dances in her museum...