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Show 'New Minstrels' to appear at music hall The New Christy Minstrels, will make two appearances at Valley Music Hall, Friday, August Au-gust 22 and Saturday, August 23 at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are now on sale at Valley Music Hall in North Salt Lake and may be charged at all Sears, Castleton, ZCMI, KOB, and the Merc Department stores. academic colleges and the Graduate School during the afternoon af-ternoon and evening. Cotton will not "pill up." The Minstrels perform "en masse," and each individual of the group has his or her own specialty which can be performed per-formed as a solo. They accompany accom-pany themselves on banjos, guitars and bass, and as "Variety" "Var-iety" put it: "The wide assortment assort-ment of instruments and voices give it (the group) all a fullblown full-blown force with a captivating drive." Their clean-cut, likeable youthful and typically American Ameri-can appearance is an integral part of the New Christy Minstrels. Min-strels. Bulging with rhythm, bright-eyed bright-eyed (but hardly bushy-tailed), the six boys and two girls who are the New Christy Minstrels have brought their trained voices, skilled musicians hip, happy out-going personalities, sense of fun, comedy, bouncy expansive beat, to all points of the globe. They've rejuvenated folk singing, spread the joyous sound of Americana, and paved the way for the introduction of folk oriented entertainment to audiences in nightclubs, supper clubs, and concert circuit, on television and in the recording industry. Other groups have followed their lead but none have been able to capture the Minstrel's unique swinging singing, sing-ing, feet stomping, finger snap- POPULAR HIT HERE "Rooster" Cogburn, Mattie Ross and La Boeuf set out for Arkansas Indian territory in their pursuit of the man who killed Mattie's father. John Wayne, Glen Campbell and Kim Darby star in "True Grit" in color now at Villa Theatre in Springville for limited engagement. ping contagion that captures their audiences on every age level. They rocked the columns of the White House in 1964 when they introduced their particular par-ticular folk-style at the invita tion of President Lyndon Johnson; John-son; this prolific group opened European ears to the sound, "Brought down the house" at the San Remo festival and won the first and second prize. |