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Show f-sWpl: ,J W -JUS r. .-: .vfj. , v- v- -V V TO PRF-SKNT CONCERT. The Oak Ridge Boys, a gospel and country music group will appear in concert at the SUSC auditorium Monday, April 14. Event is sponsored by the SUSC Cultural Affairs as a part of Wild West Activities on the Cedar City campus. Oak Ridge Boys to present concert in Cedar April 14th Primarily responsible for bringing the Oaks to Southern Utah is Mary Blackner, communications com-munications major and creator and conductor of the SUSC radio station KCDR-FM program, "Sounds of Gospel." Mary is an old gospel hand, having been extensively involved in gospel music in Boise, Idaho before enrolling in SUSC. In booking the Oaks into SUSC's intercultural program, Mary was fully assured that the group was more than worthy of the trust. The Oaks originated in Oak Ridge, Tenn. in 1929 and have been increasingly active throughout America, Canada and Europe ever since. Over the years the group membership has changed several times as the older members moved on and youth moved in. And Mary says she has no reservations in recommending the Oaks to Utah. By Lowell D. Blanton Music lovers, especially those with an ear for that special : religious sound known as , "Gospel Music," will soon have a rare opportunity to indulge themselves when one of America's most famous gospel groups, The Oak Ridge Boys, appears in concert at Southern Utah State College. The "Oaks," as the group is popularly known, now appearing with Johnny Cash in Las Vegas, are scheduled for a one-time two-hour two-hour concert in the SUSC auditorium Monday, April 14, at 8 p.m. Sponsored by the SUSC Inter-Cultural Affairs Committee, Com-mittee, the concert is open to the public; advance reserved tickets are available at $3 from the SUSC student center cultural affairs office and severl Cedar City business locations. General admission tickets, available at the box office, are $3.50. As with so much of America's musical culture, gospel music and the groups that sing it originated in the South's black culture. By the 1920's, white gospel groups were forming throughout the country, and today, gospel music is an industry in-dustry as large as any other musical art form and, like country-western, is based in Nashville. During the early years of the gospel sound, the emphasis came from church-oriented groups, usually male quartets, and from within individual church congregations. Today, this booming business features groups of every size and character and the music is contained in every musical style, including blue grass, country-western, country-western, popular, contemporary, soul, hard and soft rock and even classical. But regardless of style, gospel music has one primary thrust-singing praise to the Lord. |