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Show SECTION FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2008 Elyssa Andrus EDITOR V 1 'i r '. f. S X BRYCOX.COMMontage I AND Cody Clark RYAN SHUPE 2005, Ryan Shupe & the took a huge step up the music ladder by signing a deal venerable Capitol Records and their self produced album "Hey Hey Hey" into the major national release "Dream Big." TV exposure helped the title track from that album climb into the Top 40 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart. Alas, that turned out to be as big as the band could dream, at least in terms of national sales, leading, predictably, to a parting of the ways with Capitol. Lest you think the local lads have lost their grip on the rungs of the ladder, however, the whimsical sound of Ryan Shupe & the RubberBand is back. The quirky quintet has a new label, Nashville-based Montage Music Group, a new album, Last Man Standing, and a new atntude ... you know, sort of. fv MAN VAQiHii -- BRYC0X.COMMontage dark alley." The group's main cog is only kidding about being Some bands might beat you up and steal your lunch money in a dark alley, but if you actually ran into the RubberBand under those same circumstances, they'd almost certainly help you find the nearest bus stop, wait there with you until your bus showed up and probably even buy you a corn dog. Chi the other hand, there are plenty of musical acts that, for whatever reason, are never heard from again after that first whiff of success turns sour. So it's evident that Shupe, 36, and his mates, who have a show in Saratoga Springs on Saturday and a show at Provo's School on June 28, have Jimpview High even if spirit, they'd never use it to punch you in the nose. (The Saratoga Springs show, part of the city's Saratoga Splash celebration of summer, is free. It's $10 to attend the hard-nose- & THE RUBCO?QIND t,A;T In rougn-and-tumb- Music Group mmmm With a new label and a vintage sound, Ryan Shupe and crew fight back after falling down DAILY HERALD ' eandrusheraldextra.com 344-255- Music Group the RubberBand's new album "Last Man Standing. " . Ryan Shupe & The message in the new album's title, Shupe said, is that "we are a band that's action-packeWe put up a good fight, you don't want to run into us in a See SHUPE, D2 If you go I What: Ryan Shupe & the RubberBand, the popular homegrown "post-He- e Haw funkadel-i- c newgrass" rockers will play old and new favorites on the final night of the Saratoga Splash, the celebration of Saratoga Springs's 10th anniversary. They'll also perform at Timpview High School to help raise funds for the school's hip-ho- p marching band. Saratoga Splash Show I When: Saturday, 8:30 p.m. I Where: Harvest Regional Park, 2104 N. Providence Dr., Saratoga Springs I Cosfc Free I Info: 766-979- www.sara- - civiceventssplash.php Timpview High School Show When: June 28, 7 p.m. I Where: Timpview High School, 3570 N. Timpview Drive, Provo I Cost: $10 I Info: timpviewband.com J REGIONAL TRAVEL Art happens at Colorado capital more than conventional choice Plein Air Festival Christopher Reynolds LOS ANGELES TIMES Cody Clark DAILY HERALD What do you like to do outside in the summertime? While kids are running through the sprinkler or eating watermelon, several dozen local artists will be enjoying the sunshine at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi. The annual Thanksgiving Point Plein Air Festival, today and Saturday, celebrates fine art and fine weather by inviting painters and sculptors to engage in their craft in the fragrant, leafy environs of Thanksgiving Point Gardens. Visitors can stroll around the gardens and watch the artists at work from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. both days. Among the artists scheduled to participate are paintersillustrators James Christensen, Gary Smith, Jeff Pugh and Greg Price, and sculptors Dennis Smith and Gary Lee Price. Completed works of art will be sold at a silent auction Saturday night. "En plein air" is a French-derive- d expression the describes a style of painting done in the open air. Admission to the festival is $ 10 for adults (ages $9 for seniors (age 65 and older) and $6 for ), children (ages DENVER Greetings, super-delegate- s, standard delegates, compromised Floridians, miffed Michiganders, would-b- e VPs and VIPs. As you and the other Democrats convene here Aug. 25 to formally choose a presidential candidate at last, you will be wined, dined, wooed, spun, schmoozed, queried, denounced and perhaps bamboozled by all manner of unreliable operatives, members of the media and, of course, one another. Don't trust those people. Trust me. For instance, South-of-Colfa- N over a welcome cocktail, one of the locals seems to be inviting you to partake in some Dazbog with Hickenlooper, your drink has not been drugged and this is not a Justice Department sting. Dazbog is a popular local coffee brand. John Hickenlooper is Denver's mayor. And Denver, it's the capital of Colorado, one of several Western states that leaned slightly right in 2004. Had they leaned slightly left, John Kerry would be in the White House. If I were a Democratic strategist, I would have put the party here too. Once you're here, you might encounter either a Dazbog or a Hickenlooper in LoHi or S0C0, which is what some people call x the Lower Highlands and neighborhoods. Nearby lies L0D0, which stands for Lower Downtown. A word to those of you who backed presumptive nominee Barack Obama from the beginning: If a couple of burly Clinton people show up to bury the hatchet and offer you a free ride to the convention center on 14th Street, take evasive actioa The Colorado Convention Center is a big, beautiful building in the heart of downtown, and Denver's taxpay- - CHRISTOPHER REYNOLOSLos Angeles Times if, moves on the South teenage kayaker practices his white-watPlatte River an encounter with rugged nature in downtown Denver , A for the record, is a city of 570,000 people at the eastern edge of the Front Range of the Rocky Moun- - er tains. It's a mile high, as you might have heard. More to the point, la.twwi-tti- See DENVER, D2 |