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4L Ashevllle Clllien-Tlmes, Feb. 1B8S 'Accelerators' At Music Hall; This Week They Ain Rockabilly, Folks 1 St" LAlh si tors, along with guitar player Chris Moran. They started work on an album (or Dolphin, run by the Record Bar, record store chain. The record was produced by Don Dixon, who has worked with R.E.M., and partially recorded at Mitch Easter's Drive-In Studio. Easter, who has earned lame with his new music band, Let's Active, also played on a couple of tracks.

The album, released about a year ago, did very well on college and non-commercial stations, Duncan said. "Getting on the commercial stations Is very difficult," he said. "It's politics. It's big business and we're not big business." Even without extensive airplay, the group has played to very receptive audiences, Duncan said. "I think that audiences today are more open, more aware of what's going on.

"Used to be that audiences had to hear the songs before they'd come see a show. But now, they're more willing (to try new bands), "I think a lot of that had to do with punknew wave music. People were getting tired of the same old stuff. But now, that (new wave) Is the same old stuff." The group has recently changed members, with Jerry Hubbell coming aboard to play bass and Brad Rice joining as the new guitar player. The band will likely record a new album sometime in the next 12 months, but Duncan isn't sure where it will be cut or when It might be released.

"We're going to play the Peppermint Lounge In New York In February," he said. "We're not just standing still. You can't just sit around and wait for something to happen. "You have to work hard and do it yourself," By TONY KISS Staff Writer Better not call The Accelerators a rockabilly band. At least, don't use that handle when the band's founder-leader, Gerald Duncan, is around.

"It bothers me when people say we're a rockabilly band," Duncan said in a phone interview the other day from the group's home turf, Raleigh. "We're not a rockabilly band. I've stolen some ideas from rockabilly, but we are a rock and roll band. We just don't follow the straight and narrow." Maybe that's the reason that this four-man outfit has had so much success. Their first record, "Leave My Heart," released on the Independent Dolphin label, won rave reviews from the Village Voice, Rolling Stone and Billboard.

They've also toured the East, playing at well known clubs including New York's Danceterla. Next week, the band will be In town for a Saturday night gig at the Ashevllle Music Hall on Wall Street. It's not easy to describe this band's music it doesn't fit into a simple category. Instead, songwriter-singer Duncan has put together a sound that conjurs up images of both of 1930s and 1980s rock. Duncan, born and raised in nearby Taylors, S.C., started his rock career with friends in a band called Moon Pie, based In Greenville.

That was in 1974-75; two years later, drummer Doug Whelchel joined the ensemble. But Greenville's rock music scene left something to be desired, so Duncan made plans to move to Raleigh. "1 had been wanting to get out of Greenville for years," he said. "I didn't have a chance there. So I said 'I'm Moon Pie members Welchel and bassist Skip Anderson joined Duncan in the new group called The Accelera- At The Bistro White Water Bluegrass with Ted White will play the Ashevllle listening room Saturday night.

anyone who 's tried classified. CLflSSIFIE Continued From Page 2L each Sunday at Slreslng Gallery, Hamburg Road, Route 2, Mars Hill. For weekday visits, phone A live drawing workshop is held 7-9 p.m. Mondays in Room 237, Owen Building, University of North Carolina at Ashevllle. The sessions, are open to all serious artists who should bring their own drawing or painting materials; there's a 2 fee per workshop.

Pottery, Cherokee crafts, mountain baskets, Appalachian folk art, woodcarvlngs and wrought Iron at the N.C. Homespun Museum, Blltmore Homespun Cialehouse In north Ashevllle. The Museum of Western North Carolina Handicrafts In Waynesvllle Is open for lours 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesdays-Saturdays and 2-5 p.m. Sundays.

There is a small charge (or escorted tours; for more information phone 452-. 1551. Dance Alvln Alley Repertory Ensemble, 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Asheville.

Tickets are J7. PunkNew Wave dance at .9 p.m. Saturday, llighsmlth Student Center, University of North Carolina al Asheville. Music by NRG and SPIOX. Admission $2.

Modern dance classes for Intermediate advance level students with 2-3 years experience, taught by "Barrio Barton, p.m. Tuesdays at New Sludio of Dance, Charlotte Street, Ashevllle. Phone 254-4205. Social dance classes and exercise classes by Dance Menagerie starling Feb. 0.

Phone 254-5268. Clogging classes for beginning and advanced students by Cherl Shop-pard and Ted White Thursday nights at Bryson (iym, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa. Et Cetera The Bread and Puppet Traveling Circus, a show of puppets doing traditional circus acts, at 1:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday, llurris Middle School, Spruce Pine. Family nature programs ate offered al 3 p.m.

Sundays al WNC Nature Center, Gashes Creek Road. This week: a film, "Cosmos No. 2" with Carl Sagan. Stars and Cars Custom Auto Show, 12-9 p.m. Sunday al the Asheville Civic Center.

Jinn 299 S. Main W.ynemiUe, N.C. 456-3788 Dine In the atmosphere of Southern Victorian Elegance HOURS. DINNER, 5-9; Frl, Sat. 5-10 LUNCHi 1 1-2, Sun.

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She also opted not to record with Horizon, but rather with professional studio musicians. "Horizon is very talented, but since we were working six nights a week, the group didn't have the time." Morgan made time by squeezing the recording sessions into her one day orr. "I'd get up at 8:30 a.m., drive lo Atlanta, record until 3:30 a.m. Monday, sleep, get up, drive home and go' to work with Horizon," she said. To cover the costs of recording and pressing the album, Morgan formed an investment company, Krl-mar Music, and sold shares to friends and family.

The record was produced by friend Steve Chllders, who also con- FREE SAMPLE OF OUR HOMEMADE FUDGE wcoupon THE HOP -J Iribuled several songs. Davis played on five of Ihe tunes. The project started last February, and the album is now being pressed "and should be here this wi'ek." She'll be selling the independent release at record stores in the lotte area. The next step Is to convince radio stations to play the album, and persuade a big record label to pick it up for national distribution. She's also planning to stick with Horizon, which plays at the Holiday Inn on Tunnel will take the record," she said.

"I know If they'll listen lo it, they'll like it." Charlotte Symphony The Charlotte Symphony, with featured harpist Heidi Lehwalder, will perform at 8 p.m. Monday at lloey Auditorium, on the Western Carolina University campus in Cullo-whee. The concert, part of the university's LCK program, is open lo the public, wllh tickets priced at $10. Lehwalder is a well-known harpist who has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony, and orchestras in Louisville and Cleveland. She has also appeared with conductors Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Fiedler and has loured North America and Kurope.

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