Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 8

f't ikUub SHtmnc Oct. 14, 1976" i -s, Vi '-A Schedule fi A colorful and exciting parade, saluting black cowboys who helped settle the West, will be the climax to Oaklands City Center celebration Saturday. The second annual BUck Cowboy Parade will begin at 1230 p.m. bom the Aeon Shopping Center lot at 12th and Market streets: About 50 top black cowboys from throughout Northern, California are expected to participate with other riders, marching bands, drill teams, color guards and floats. The parade will conclude at the Oakland City.

Center around 2 p.m. when cowboys and other parade units pass a reviewing stand occupied, by city and county officials and dignitaries. An afternoon-long program of entertainment marking the dedication id the centers new plaza will follow the conclusion of the parade. Adeline CO Market St. CO i.

Following Is the schedule of events for the. City' Center celebration tomorrow and Saturday. Events will be held on three separate stages, Friday Stage 4)ne: Noon-1 p.m., Ampola; from CasOemont High School; Samoa Mo Samoa; Sons of Creation; Black Dimensions; Bakeibo Band; People; Friday Stage: Two: 11-noon, San Francisco Naval Band Color Guard; Symphony Quintet; 3-4, Skyline High School Pep Band Chorus. Friday-Stage Three: Noon-1 p.fti., Mariachi Los Monarchos; 1-2, Berta Rafael; Ballet Folklorico Jalisco; Carlitos Reyes; Mariachi Los Monarchos; Jose Luis Orozco; 4-5, Salem Rythm Band; 5-0, Egypt Company. Saturday Stage One: 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Harvey Scales; NOW Theatre Group; Black Cowboys; Mo Samoa, 3:15, Rakeiho Band Everyday People; 3:30, Church of Living God; 3:45, Internationals Vehicle Band; 4, Youth Development Council Ensemble; 4:15, Oakland Children Chorus; 4:30, Antoinette Dimensions; 4:45, Mark Armstrong; Vernon Thomas; 5 Sons of Creation, 5:15, Michael Barrett; 5:30, Variations.

Saturday Stage Two: Brass Octet; Symphony Youth Orchestra; 1-2, Paradise Hawaii; Presidio Band; 3-4, Egypt Company; 4-5, U.C. Jazz Ensemble. Saturday Stage Three: 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.. Standing Room Only; Oakland Ballet; Symphony Chorus; Dia de la Raza, including The Salsa Band, Ballet Folklorico Jalisco, The Marimba Band, Joey Ross Carlito Reyes and The Marimba Band. Colorfully attired performers of Ballet Folklorfco Jalisco rehearse for City Center show ijlllfllliilillllill START Acorn Lot iiiiniiiiiiiniiiiiiiiii Jefferson St.

IfllllllllllllllllllllJ Oakland City Center Broadway CO Franklin St: CO CM only professional classical troupe in this area, will be Gallops and Kisses, combination of waltzes and polkas featuring music by Strauss, Schubert and Lamer, with choreography by the ballets director, Rom Guldi. Among works to be presented by the Symphony Chorus, which has been winning high acclaim under conductor Joseph Liebling, will be excerpts tom Handels oratorio Messiah including the Hallelujah Chonis." For the Latin community, the traditional Dia de la Raza, or- Day of the People, has been combined, this year with the City Center Plaza event. Among musical artists bringing the sounds of Latin America will be the Mariachi Los Monarchos, the Ballet Folklorico Juvenil, the dance team of Bertha Rafael, the Paraguayan harpist Carlltos Reyes, and the Joey Ross salsa trio. The Cultural and Ethnic Affairs Guild of the Oakland Museum has arranged other entertainment that Includes soul performers the Variations, featuring Samaki Bennett, a reggae band the Sons of Creation, an Afro dance troupe the Black Dimensions" and a pop- jazz group with a big band sound the "Rak-eiho Orchestra. Diversity that is this city will take the stage tomorrow and Saturday for the City Center celebration.

Entertainment of many kinds will be featured during the big, free celebration that marks completion of the sub-surface City Center Plaza and formally dedicates the new 24-story Clorox Building. Completion of a construction project usually sees a gathering of business suited-men having their picture taken at a ribbon-cutting. But this isn't the usual construction project. And the whole town has been invited to come on down to the celebration. There is something for everyone, such as the Oakland ballet, rock music, a Saturday parade of black cowboys, mari-achi ensembles, a salsa trio, a marimba band, and the Oakland Symphony Chorus.

Nonstop entertainment will be under way at the Plaza tom 11:30 a.m. to I p.m. both dayi- Offtelal dedlcatlon Ceremonies will kick off events at 11:30 tomorrow. Temporary stages will be installed at the plaza to showcase the many performers. Offering by the Oakland Ballet, the The popular ensemble that calls itself SRO (for Standing Roan Only) will offer its unique specialty mini-versions of Broadway musical comedies.

The Center for Visual Aria is sponsoring in art-in-actlon show of a variety of skills, including painting, jewelry making, pottery and others. The Oakland Museum and the Oakland Public Library, in a joint effort, are presenting a peek at the city century ago. It is a historical phdlographic display that is mounted in the BART mezzanine that gives access to the new plaza. Hie photographs, mounted on large panels, show downtown Oakland tom about 1865 to 1930. The two days of entertainment signal the completion of the sub-surface plaza that links the Wells Fargo and Clorox buildings with the Bay Area Rapid Transits City Center station.

The plaza will also tie into the center parking garage that is under construction. Continuous films and slides from the Grubb and Ellis Development a general partner in the City Center redevelopment project, will show the planning that has gone into the 15-block project of which the present is but a beginning. 0 CO. sz Alice St. 1Tp UU mra prp UU 3U Liu Starts Friday, October 15-fook far these exceptional buys and many more.

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