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Show :'" r k -f iytf - i4 v a; i "Taos Navaho Hoop Dancer," a bronze by Stan Johnson. Noted western artists to be featured at Walker Gallery exhibit The bronzes of Stan Johnson John-son reveal both the mastery of a difficult medium and an obvious love for the people and wild creatures of his native West. While many artists and authors seem preoccupied with the frailties frail-ties and imperfections of man and his world, Stan has sought and found an essential essen-tial greatness, a certain nobility, an integrity of character with universal appeal. The father of ten children, Johnson worked a number of years as a commercial artist, and later taught to support himself and his family. However, he continued con-tinued to pursue his ambition to become a full-time sculptor, sculp-tor, stydying with the noted scholar and sculptor Avard Fairbanks. After producing his first bronzes, he left teaching for full-time sculpting. sculpt-ing. Stan has completed commissioned com-missioned works for the American Striped Bass So ciety and the National Quail Society. Currently, he is working on a monument to be placed in the new visitors center in Cody, Wyoming, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. All of Stan's bronzes are cast in Mapleton, Utah, by Phoenix Phoe-nix Bronzes. Walker Galleries is hon ored to have a retrospective of Stan's work in their new gallery at the Park City Resort Center for their April Western Art Show. In addition addi-tion to the bronzes, the Gallery also is displaying a select group of original Frederic Remington woodblock wood-block engravings executed in the 1880s. Also on display are original oils and graphs by Canadian artist Neil Boyle. The show opens on Saturday, Satur-day, April 9, and a reception with the artist, Stan Johnson, will be held from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Walker Galleries is located on the Plaza Level, just above the new resort ice skating rink. The Roger Eddy Group: sounds that sizzle by Curtis Willey You can say immediately that these guys are experienced ex-perienced professionals. The Roger Eddy Group, a five-piece band which appeared ap-peared last week at the Cowboy Bar, uses few synthesized syn-thesized effects. With its tight-knit blend of jazz, boogie and blues, the group weaves a fabric of sound with no holes. Their list of credits is impressive. im-pressive. Between them, the members of the group have played with trombonist Bill Watrous, the Mark Almond band, Les McCann, Joe Cocker, Ezra Mohawk, Merv Griffin's TV band, The Four Tops and many more. Hailing from Monterey they've been exposed to jazz for some time. They don't crtJit that town for their style, however, noting that once the reknowned Monterey Mon-terey Jazz Festival leaves town, so does most of the jazz fervor. Saxophonist Roger Eddy, the so-called "leader," claims the band could bear the name of any of its members. mem-bers. Roger plays with ease, pouring melodies out to the audience. Dave Kempton, the oldest performer at 41, plays a Roland electric keyboard with a polished, rhythmic flair. Guitarist Mike Lent, playing a Gibson ES-335 through a Mesa Boogie amp, contributes a fat, raw power to the sound. I believe that for any band to be successful the bass and drums must be synchronized. syn-chronized. Larry Antonio (Fender Jazz bass) and Frankie Nuovo (Gretsch drums) achieve tnis splendidly. splen-didly. The syncopated chops of Nuovo and the full-on bottom bot-tom of Antonio create a unit full of funk and rhythm to allow the others their melodic freedom. Their repertoire and sound are both mixed well. An equal amount of "known" songs and originals are present. Jeff Lorbers' "Water Sign" and Tower of Powers' "Get on Your Feet," (one of the few vocal numbers) along with tunes by Weather Report and Dave Sanborn give the listener a bit of the familiar. "Ode to Raoul," "Boston Commons," and "Sax and Violence" are a few of the originals. When asked who they felt they most closely resem bled, they suggested Dave Sanborn or the Crusaders. I agree. They avoid the terms commonly used to define music. Jazz, fusion, funk none of these labels adequately describe their sound. If jazz and rock equals fusion, what would jazz and boogie be? Blusion? That's closer to what they put out. While not exactly a dance band, they are a good choir for the music enthusiast who doesn't want to bump and grind all night. After two years of playing together, their clock-like performance lends to this area a sound seldom heard. The Roger Eddy Group is worth listening to when the opportunity arises. Sales increase at 1982 Art Festival, tax figures say Figures from the State Tax Commission show that sales at the 1982 Park City Art Festival were greater than those from any previous festival. The commission reported collecting in excess of $10,000 in sales tax (an increase of $1,000 from 1981), of which Park City received more than $2,000. These amounts do not reflect sales tax from locally licensed artists, vendors and merchants. Park City also received 20 percent of the sales tax collected from those sources. The 1983 Festival will be held on Aug. 6 and 7. Applications Ap-plications from visual artists interested in participating are due at the festival office at the Kimball Art Center by Friday, April 8. Approximately Ap-proximately 200 visual artists ar-tists will be chosen by juries. For additional information contact Festival Director Sean Toomey at 649-8882. Grants go to Park City art groups Park City News Thursday, April 7, 1983 Page B5 The letter from the Utah Arts Council was dated April 1. But the news was no April Fool's joke. The council announced an-nounced it had awarded grants to Park City's three arts organizations for the year 1983-84. The Kimball Art Center received $16,090. Park City Performances received $1,500 and the Intermountain Actors Ensemble got $500. Kimball director Corke Pepper said the money would be used for general operating expenses. "It costs us about $25,000 a month mon-th just to open our doors," she said. The grant was not as much as the center requested, said Pepper, but none of the organizations got as much money as they wanted. She said 1982 was a good year for the center. "We just about broke even, and that's never been done before," she said. Don Gomes of Park City Performances said his grant money would be used to fund up to two "Renaissance" people to work with the theatre this summer. Each person would direct one play, and act in other capacities-such as stage manager, choreographer, costumer-for the other productions. Afterward, Gomes said, they will be interviewed in-terviewed by a panel on their experiences. A tape of the discussion would be kept in the theatre archive. The money, he said, will also be used so the Egyptian can host a state-wide workshop with other theatre companies on technical problems. Ron Burnett, director of the Intermountain Actors Ensemble, said his grant will be used for the summer Shakespeare Festival. Auditions set for 'Mame' Audition dates have been set for Park City Performances Perfor-mances production of the musical "Mame." On Friday, April 15, auditions will be held at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Building, and on Saturday, April 16, they will be held at 4 p.m. in the Egyptian Theatre. Between 25 and 30 people will be cast in this lively musical which requires parts for four women and two men with numerous smaller roles that will find the cast in double and triple roles. There is also a part for a 10-year 10-year old boy. Auditioners will be asked to read from the script, sing a song from the show (which will be taught) and do some movement exercises. No prepared pieces are necessary. 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