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Show f Entertainment Calendar Arts The FRISATSUN, FEBRUARY 8-10, 2002 Events Calendar A-18 Crossword A-20 "Medium Rare" A-24 TV Listings A-26 FYI A-30 SCEE EDITOR: Jason Readc 649-9014 ext.104 arts(fi parkrecord.com Park Record OR COPY wmmammT' ' ' v 'iiim Park City Museum hours The Park City Museum and Visitors Center has extended its hours for the Olympics. The museum will be open from 10 am to 9 p.m. every day. The offices for research and interviews will be open from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Daily Docent-led Docent-led tours will be held from Feb. 8 to 24 at 11 a.m. A slide show presentation on the history of skiing in Park City, "Ski Park City, Then and Now," is scheduled for Feb. 1 2 and 1 9 at noon. "Digging for Park City's Mining History," another slide show, will be presented Feb. 14 and 21 at noon. For more information, please call 649-6104. 649-6104. - Sheryl Crow at Harry O's The United States Ski and Snowboard Association will host an exclusive performance per-formance by Grammy award-winning artist Sheryl Crow Wednesday, Feb. 13 at Harry O's, located at 427 Main St. A portion por-tion of the proceeds will benefit the athletes ath-letes of the USSA. A VIP reception is scheduled at 7 p.m. Doors open for the general public at 8 p.m. Motherlode Canyon Band will open the show. A limited limit-ed number of VIP tickets - which include food and beverages - are available through USSA for $250 (a portion of the price is tax deductible). For more information, infor-mation, please call Lisa Bennion at 647-2022. 647-2022. To purchase tickets, e-mail (Iben-nionussa.org) (Iben-nionussa.org) or call Bennion, noting the number of tickets you would like to purchase, along with a credit card number, num-ber, name on the card and expiration date. , ILo-IFii felkts t Stalwarts of Park City, Salt Lake nightlife reflect on year-and-half of success, look forward to Olympics By JASON READE Of the record staff It's a scene that's been repeated countless count-less times over the past year-and-a-half. Four Park City twenty-somethings (five, until guitarist Ben Gunter parted with the group) take the stage at Mulligan's or Renee's, break into a music set, and pretty soon half the bar is whooping whoop-ing it up on the dance floor - not to jazz. rock or even techno, but to bluegrass. Since the band's first gig on Randy Barton's "Park City Faces" show on Park City Television, Lo-Fi Breakdown has easily become one of the biggest music draws in Park City, and has since expanded its playing schedule to Salt Lake City (every Tuesday night at O'Shucks in downtown) and Logan. Lo-Fi packs popular nightspots, summer concerts con-certs in City Park, and even a certain editor's 50th birthday bash. And they have introduced local music fans to a -genre rarely heard in Park City bars and clubs. Lo-Fi Breakdown -Park City High School alumnus Ben Wartena on' the fiddle; Colby School music teacher Garth Schwellenbach on the tour overseas, but through the Olympics. Lo-Fi's Games schedule is busy. The band welcomed the Olympic Torch Relay during Thursday's Main Street festivities and is scheduled to perform per-form during Olympic celebrations at the same location Monday, Feb. 11 and Friday, Feb. 22. The musicians are playing at Renee's Saturday night, Feb. 9, and are entertaining the U.S. Ski and 1 IT " " ;- "": : ' V: ill. mm 0jv VjO 5j. V v' hordes of ward to playii for the 1 international visitors packing into town. ' E veryone's pretty psyched," psy-ched," he says. "It should be a lot of fun. I think it'll be cool playing for Europeans. It 11 be like f H.---hy.'ns',aiJI V' t " - thJ is easv to ( A ' , A estint! music photos courtesy of LO FI breakdown Americana for them." COMPILATION BY MATT GORDON McNeil said nart Of I O- banjo; Dolly's Bookstore U9rl Dreal4aow1 Dr,an mcwen, warm ocnweiienoduii, idii iviteii j , s appca ls tht.,r j,verse fan employee Brian McNeil and Ben Wartena - has brought bluegrass to the Park City masses, base. After all. most every-on every-on the upright bass, and They band recently released its first album and will play during the one finds something they like his twin brother Ian Main Street Olympic celebration. in bluegrass. McNeil on the mandolin 'its pretty amazing (who, for the record, is the The Park Snowboard Association at their Mulberry who's into it." he says, from the "people . Record's xeal estate coordinator) - are Suwet wining-and-dming-headquarters the w ho dress like punk rockers" to the now set to bring Park City-style bluegrass same weekend. emerging "greaser movement" in Salt to the world. Not through a whirlwind Brian McNeil says the band looks for- Lake. Schwellenbach, who in his outh was fond of his dad's banjo play - bluegrass enjoy. s an inter na music ... it nas a lot of history. We play sonus that have been played for hundreds of years," he says. "It's somewhat limitless what you can do with it." "I think bluegrass is a kind of music that everyone likes a lot." Schwellenbach adds, as it draws devotees from a variety of music categories. "Everybody can just understand it." Of particular interest are the band members' hometow ns. 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