Word: performs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like nomadic pilgrims looking for their lost Mecca, folk followers never give up searching for their musical ideal. Humming Judy Collins' tunes under their breath, they turn desperately to FM radio and infrequent concerts, and on sunny days even perform strange rituals with guitars under the trees in the Yard and Cambridge Common. Initiates fervently insist the only true folk music is live folk music...
There are two basic ways to get a new musical act lots of publicity (well, three, but putting rock reviewers on the company payroll is usually not discussed in polite company). One way is to perform free before lots of people; the other is a high-powered media blitz and publicity hype that attempts to stampede the reviewer into writing up the star-to-be before everyone else does and he loses his scoop...
...came north, got a place to live in Somerville, started putting together a band, and talked to a few friends who go to Harvard about getting a chance to perform here. His friends, in turn, put him in touch with people in the Coalition for Awareness and Action, who put him and his band up on the steps of Mem Church to get people in the right spirit to begin Monday's march past the River Houses...
...doctors claim that they are only asking for the city to fill present vacancies so they will no longer be forced to perform duties usually handled by nurses and lab technicians. "They haven't taken us at all seriously," Dr. Daphne Blackburn, one of the picketers, said yesterday. "They've looked upon us as a group of students instead of physicians," she added...
CONCERT: The Empire Brass Quintet will perform at Jordan Hall at 8 p.m. Admission free with University I.D. $2 for non-BU students, $5 for others...