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Spotlight-Santa Cruz Sentinel- Friday, Sept. 13, 198511 tion KZSC-FM and Corkadoragha. Local singer-songwriter Aileen Vance opens the show. Small, one of the first Australian folk performers to find success outside her country, has headlined concerts and festivals in the U.S. and Canada with her blend of traditional and contemporary songs that touch political and moral issues with a sense of wry humor.

She writes many of her own songs, which cover topics from nuclear disarmament to the plight of women behind the men on the land. For more information call 425-8506. Broadway blues The Broadway Blues Band presents a motown and soul dance party, featuring soul showman John "Broadway" Tucker Saturday evening at O.T. Price's. Tucker, a popular local bluesman, has been described as James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Bobby Bland, Jackie Wilson, B.B.

King and Sam Dave jellyrolled into one. For more information call 476-3939. PECIAL FUN Special Fun plus Montaj appear Saturday at the Catalyst. For more information call 423-1336. Sunday and vocals.

0IORUS LINE Broadway's longest running, multi-award-winning show "A Chorus Line" plays Sunday afternoon at De iter's Community Hall, formerly West Abbey Theatre, 4525 Soquel Drive, Soquel. Encore Productions and Robert Michael Productions of San Francisco co-produce this community theatre rendition. "A Chorus Line" has been recently released to community theatre organizations, and this is its premiere run in Northern California. Melanie Paizis does the choreography and staging, with Chuck Largent producing, George Rowe co-directing and Richard Burdick providing the music direction for the 14-piece orchestra. The 29-member cast features top local dancers and musical theater per-rformers.

The local production has been winning rave reviews since opening last month. Dinner begins at 1:15 p.m. and the show at 2:30. For more information call 438-6228. TAR SWINGING The Mid-County Senior Center Choralierspresent their monthly variety show at 2 p.m.

Sunday. The September program "Swinging On A Star" is followed by dancing and refreshments. JERRY'S KIDS 7-Eleven Food Stores present a concert to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Nelson Center. Featured performers are Isle of Skye, Indigo, Steve Kritzer and Friends, and the Tony FloresBilly Packard duo.

QANTA CRUZ CONTRADANCE -The monthly contradance swings off to a start at 7:30 Sunday evening at the Portuguese CPDES Hall near Harvey West Park. Proceeds go the the Bay Area Country Dance So- ciety. Each dance is taught and then called by Santa Cruz's Linda Durant and Jamie Wylde to the music of The Empty Pockets String Band. Basic instruction begins at 7:30 p.m., with everyone on the floor by 8. MORTHWIND North wind presents its melodic jazz at 8 Sunday evening at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center.

Pianist George Winston produced North wind's first album "River Flight" and has introduced the group as guest artists on some of his tours. Their music features keyboards, saxophone, guitar and hand drum in a blend of jazz, folk, blues and new age impressionism. RlG YOUTH Big Youth and the Ark Angels headline a Sunday night show at the Catalyst sponsored by radio station KUSP 89 FM. Special guests will also be on hand. Big Youth, described as the greatest dub-poet ever born in Jamaica, has had a number of hits on the reggae charts in the international market.

For more information call 423-1336. QET HYSTERICAL Jaz Kaner presents an evening of musical madness and comedy Sunday evening at O.T. Price's. Perry Kurtz and Fred Reiss also appear, followed by dancing with The John Silver Band. For more information call 476-3939.

Price's Music Hall in Soquel. For more information call 476-3939. JOE SHARINO The Joe Sharino Band plays tonight and every Friday to sell-out crowds at the Co-coanut Grove Sun room. For more information call 423-2053. QaOW'S CREW The Crow's Nest has three bands lined up for its weekend entertainment.

Spang-A-Lang takes the stage tonight, A Little Night Music appears Saturday and Urbana plays its regular Sunday evening gig. For more information call 4764560. JOHN'S SILVER The John Silver Band plays from 10 tonight to 1:30 a.m. Saturday at Zelda's in Capitola. The group performs music by the Stones, Kinks, Doors, original songs and classic rock songs of the '50s and '60s.

QAFE RIO Harpist R. Rio and pianist Joe Indence appear at 9 tonight at Cafe Rio in Rio Del Mar. Rio teams up with guitarist Ken Arconti Saturday evening. The program includes jazz, pop and blues. For more information call 688-8917.

Saturday VflER PEOPLE Tandy Beal and Friends present the beach event "Mer People" Saturday and Sunday mornings at 8:30 on the beach just north of the lighthouse on West Cliff Drive. This free event, featuring Santa Cruz' nationally-acclaimed dancer choreographer, is made poss.ble by a Santa Cruz City Arts Commission grant. J)UPRE DEBUT St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church opens its 1985-86 season with a concert for piano and organ at 8 p.m. Saturday.

Pat Burns and William Visscher perform works by Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Vivaldi, J.S. Bach and Krell. A highlight will be the area premier of "Variation on Two Themes" for piano and organ by Marcel Dupre. The Capitola church is located at the corner of Oakland Avenue and Escalona Drive. For more information call 475-2894 or 462-1666.

Violin sonatas violinist John Creighton Murray and pianist-harpsichordist Robert Bowman present a concert of 19th century violin sonatas at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Cabrillo College Theater. The college's division of performing arts and the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County are sponsoring the performance which includes works by Brahms, Grieg and Franck. Murray, a New York City native who made his debut at age 17, has studied under some of the greatest violinists of the world and makes regular appearances at Carnegie Hall. Bowman has performed extensively in California, New York, Illinois, Oregon and Virginia for the last 24 years as a piano and harpsichord recitalist, chamber music performer and soloist with orchestra.

JUDY SMALL Australia's Judy Small returns to Santa Cruz for an 8 p.m. show Saturday at Moraga Concert Hall sponsored by radio sta- JHAMPAGNE The duo Champagne appears from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sundays through September at the Watson ville Mansion House. The easy listening pair features Jane Meredith on keyboards and vocals, and Nancy Hindin on electric bass VWTNER HOME VPEO SPECIAL FOR FOOTBALL SEASON MOVIES AT HOME RENT A VIDEO PLAYER 2 MOVIES FOR DAILY RATE FOR PLAYER 2 MOVIES Evil that Men Do Cloak and Dagger Streets of Fire Breakin Top Secret $95 SAT.

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