String band at Kimball The Riders In The Sky and special guests The Deseret String Band will perform revitalized western cowboy songs and pioneer dance music at Park City's Kimball Art Center Friday, January 28 at 8 p.m. Riders In The Sky is a musical trio based in Nashville. Nash-ville. The Riders' repertoire ranges from traditional cowboy cow-boy folk to old-time fiddle pieces to jazz numbers to western ballads that are the Band's foundation. The Band consists of "Ranger" Doug Green on baritone vocals and guitar, based folk music group since its inception in 1972. Cannon said, "Like the word Deseret, our band has gone through many changes over the years. We have travelled all over this country and Europe playing music and learning the routes of old-style old-style western music. The word Deseret has become a more secular word over the years. It is not strictly Mormon and neither are we." The Band consists of four widely experienced musicians: music-ians: Stephen Jardine, Irish music scholar; Leonard Cou- Ison, a renowned banjo maker; Mark Jardine, .fiddle music expert; and Hal Cannon, the state folklorist of Utah. The Deseret String Band has performed in many places including; The National Nat-ional Folk Festival at Wolf Trap Park in Washington, D.C., the All Ireland Folk Festival, Stanford University's Univer-sity's American Folk Music Festival, the San Diego Folk Festival, the Folk Festival of the American West, the Radio Swiss Romande Folk Festival and the Utah Bicen-cont. Bicen-cont. to pg. 10 tred "Too Slim" LaBour on string bass and lead vocals, and Woody Paul on tenor and fiddle. Included in their act is a skit segment called Rider's Theater that has featured such classics as "The Riders Join OPEC," "The Cowboy Who Hated Christmas," and "The Riders Rid-ers Go Hawaiian." "Riders In The Sky... are terrific musicians and har-monizers, har-monizers, and they are as funny as all git-out in their sense of cowboyism. And Riders In The Sky have as good a time, and give as good a one, as anybody playing anything today...," according to Esquire, December, Dec-ember, 1981. "People are into country music!" Too Slim says with enthusiasm. "If people aren't into real good music and don't know how to appreciate us they can consider us a novelty act. We're so different, they haven't seen anything like us." The Riders recently received rece-ived national attention following foll-owing an appearance on PBS' "Austin City Limits." The Deseret String Band's repertoire ranges from the colonial period through the western music of the '30s. Their music includes western fiddle tunes, pioneer ballads, cowboy songs and old country melodies on guitars, banjos, mandolins and accordions.' acc-ordions.' Hal Cannon, great-grandson of Brigham Young, has performed in this Utah- Band cont. from pg. 7 tennial Folk Festival of the Parks. The Band has recorded two albums on Okedokee Records. The first was "Utah Trails" released in 1972 and the second, "The Land of Milk and Honey" was released in 1975. For a portion of the program the two bands will combine their talents. This special event is being sponsored in part by a grant from the Utah Arts Council, Utah Rural Arts Consortium and the National Endowment for the Arts. Other sponsors include Cosmic Aeroplane and Intermountain Guitar and Banjo. Tickets are available in-advance in-advance at the Kimball Art Center and Cosmic Aeroplane. Aero-plane. Tickets are $6 for Kimball Art Center members and $8 for the general public. There will be limited seating. Set ups and beer Vill be available. For , .: information-,' call the Art , Center aj .6498882.? u.