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Show i i 'V I ! V V A V, V'O V- - 7'1 1 ft ' V ; PoIIey and the Valley Boy's, country-style singers, will appear ' at Sunday's Coffee Klatsche in the Union Alumni lounge. American South Spotlighters Program Hot Hill Music mountains, carrying with it, echoes of a heroic past and something of the joy of living close to a world of earth, sunlight sun-light and wild growing things," commented the group on their musical fashion. Polly calls the music, "plain as grass and pretty as a new gold watch." Among the instruments instru-ments the Southerners use are the guitar, autoharp, kazoo, spoons, mandolin and five-string banjo. AS PART of the Winter Quarter Quar-ter activities, the Sunday "Coffee "Cof-fee Klatsch" was planned by the Spotlight on the American South Committee and the Special Events Committee. Guitar and mandolin player Bruce Phillips is also a scholar on the Southern music. He says, "There's sadness in it, as well as a kind of shy humor which the people have cherished, built upon and passed on to their children." Southern "country-style pickers" pick-ers" Polly and the Valley Boys will appear at the first of a series of "Coffee Klatsches" on the American South Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Union Alumni Lounge. IN ADDITION to singing, the group will lead a dialogue on the Southern style of folk music. Such informal programs will be held in the future at the same time each Sunday. Their purpose, pur-pose, according to the Spotlight Committee, which is sponsoring the activity, is to involve students, stu-dents, faculty and people from the local community in discussions discus-sions concerning Southern culture. cul-ture. SIMILAR klatsches will be presented in the future by transplanted trans-planted Southerners, University students and professors and other oth-er experts of the area. Polly and the Valley Boys, ! which includes Polly Stewart, Dave Roylance and Bruce Phillips, Phil-lips, advertise "old-time picking and country-style singing." "FOR A HUNDRED years now this old-time music has been singing up and down the high green valleys of the Southern |