Party Time at the Rozsa!
Related Stories Following the Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts Dedication ceremonies,
receptions and concerts, the celebrations continue on the Michigan Tech
campus into the week of October 9-13 with a daily noontime party in the
Rozsa lobby.
Campus and community are invited to enjoy different entertainment and
free light refreshments each day as well as tours of the building.
On Monday, October 9, watch the tallest tale ever told, as The Second
Story Guys perform the Greatest Show on Stilts. Weather permitting, the
guys will start their show outside the Memorial Union, where they'll hand
out leaflets detailing the shows for the rest of the week. They'll progress
down through campus to the Rozsa lobby where the show will continue. These
guys can do things that most people can't do with both feet on the ground!
Dance, acrobatics, juggling, even back flips are done high above the crowd.
The lively sounds of Mexico can be heard on Tuesday as Mariachi Cora
provides south of the border atmosphere for the Tuesday Live in the Lobby
party. With the large, curved-spined, guitar-like vihuela, violins, trumpets,
and singers all making a joyful noise, it'll be hard to keep the feet
still.
On Wednesday, Kausay, a group of five musicians from Ecuador, plays the
traditional music of the Andes (Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia) and demonstrates
a variety of styles and rhythms that range from traditional pre-Hispanic
to the contemporary. The haunting sounds of the panpipes and flutes, the
bombo (drums), the cha'jchas (rattles made from goat's hooves), and the
stringed charango, made from an armadillo shell, are some of the many
instruments this group will play.
Drums, bells, gyle (African xylophone), saxophone, guitars, and keyboard
will be heard as Kweku Ananse and the Sweet Vibrations play traditional
and popular music from West Africa on Thursday. Dancing and singing along
with up-tempo African rhythms is the order of the day with audience participation
encouraged. The group features Djam Vivie and Nii van Bruceonuah from
Ghana and Constant Koudou from the Ivory Coast, as well several stateside
musicians who have studied in Ghana.
A high-spirited end to the week comes with the steel band Od Tapo Imi.
Chops and humor characterize this wild pan group with percussion, horns,
and bass backing up the ringing sound of the steel drums. You're invited
to sip on pina colada punch, munch on a tropical treat, and join in with
"O Bla-Di, O-Bla-Da," "Day-O," and other favorites in what will surely
be a rip-roaring finale to a fun week.
Admission, tea, coffee, cookies and punch are free. For those wanting
something a little more substantial, sandwiches will be on sale in the
lobby concessions area. Funding for the Live in the Lobby series comes
from the Katherine M. Bosch Endowment. Call 487-2844 for further information.
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