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Future sounds promising
for musician McCafferty
By CHERYL ALLEN
Staff Writer
He sleeps in a room crowded with
instruments and recording equipment.
These pieces of equipment provide
his livelihood and may secure his fu
ture. Despite complaints of neighbors,
he uses them to record his next tape.
Matt McCafferty is happy to be back
in Chapel Hill after his two-year respite
from UNC. He said Chapel Hill was a
better place to perform.
"Here people really listen," McCaf
ferty said. "Audiences here are so much
more attentive than in Philadelphia."
McCafferty left UNC after his fresh
man year to pursue a more serious
music career. He spent the last two
years working, attending the Univer
sity of Delaware and playing with a
band in the Philadelphia area.
"The band was moving up on the
club circuit; I had to decide if I wanted
to be a professional musician or go on
screwing around as an amateur," he
said. "I decided to get my degree."
McCafferty returned to Chapel Hill
to finish his senior year and take a
breather from the music scene in Phila
delphia. "I woke up one morning and decided
I'd become too involved too early in
being a professional musician. That's
when I got the idea to come back here,"
he said.
He described a visit to UNC last
spring which planted the seed. On a
sunny and clear spring day, he and his
three best friends were playing frisbee
near Silent Sam.
"I wondered why I'd ever left here,"
he said.
"It's more important for me to be a
whole person and not neglect other
parts of my personality that college can
help me develop, than to quickly suc
ceed," he said.
McCafferty said becoming famous
wasn't his motivation for performing,
but he had already seen many opportu
nities for success.
His band in Philadelphia played
under the name Matthew Sevier, cho
sen because a painting of McCafferty's
great-great uncle. General John Sevier,
bore a striking resemblance to McCaf
ferty. John Sevier was a Union Civil
War hero.
When his band first started, the
Hooters, another band from the Phila
delphia area, had just hit the national
scene.
. "The area was getting a lot of atten
tion," McCafferty said. "We got in at a
Black authors' works honored
By HEATHER SMITH
Staff Writer
It's a tribute to the literature, the
lives and the achievements of Afro
American authors.
Six female faculty members from
UNC will perform a mixture of poetry
and prose by black authors Feb. 19 at
6:30 p.m. in the Union Auditorium.
The women said their performance,
"Strong Women Survive Hurricanes,"
would contain an energy and excite
ment that emanates from their strong
desire to celebrate the works of the
authors.
"We just all got together and decided
that we wanted to do something to
share with the students so they could
get an idea of the literature and aspects
of Afro-American life," said Soyini
Madison, a professor in the speech
communication department, who will
be performing.
"It's something that I have been
wanting to do for quite some time. I've
been thinking about it doing some
thing with other black women faculty
on this campus.
"The women were all enthusiastic
about doing it. I think it might have
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good time." As a result, they secured
spots opening for nationally known
artists such as A&M's John Hiatt, who
was voted best songwriter two years
running by Rolling Stone magazine.
"Musically, there was a gap we could
fill," he said. "Philadelphia is a pop
town. We were, at least by their stan
dards, left of center." McCafferty said
they were a bit more progressive than
many of the other local bands.
"It was a good place to be out of the
mainstream," he said.
Matthew Sevier played regularly at
clubs in Philadelphia, Delaware, and
southern New Jersey, but McCafferty
saw a future beyond being a popular
club band.
"It started out fun, but as the stakes
got higher it had to become harder work
and the level of commitment had to
increase or else we'd stop progress
ing," he said. "I felt we'd stopped pro
gressing." Since the band broke up in March,
McCafferty has been working alone.
According to McCafferty, his next
band will probably be called Dolphin
Train and include musicians from the
Philadelphia area.
While in Philadelphia. McCafferty
also worked as an assistant manager at
a recording studio, OHM Studios. There
he engineered and produced demos,
building his desire to record his own
music.
This summer he recorded and pro
duced a five-song demo. Three major
recording labels, Island and Atlantic
records among them, await the release
of his next tape.
"I really won't know w hat I'm doing
until I get this tape done," he said.
McCafferty said his family influ
enced his musical pursuits.
"My brother and sister were instru
mental in getting me to take music
seriously," he said. "They are two of
my biggest supporters."
Everyone in his family plays an in
strument, and McCafferty described his
father as a brilliant pianist, once a year.
"Once a year, at Christmastime, he
sits down at the piano and plays the
most inspired rendition of 'When the
Moon Comes Over the Mountain'
you've ever heard. To hear that you'd
think he was a professional," he said.
McCafferty never studied piano
however, and his formal guitar training
included a few lessons at the YMCA
and a couple of jazz guitar lessons.
He gained his most valuable musical
experience with the Indonesian
been something that we all had in the
back of our minds."
The poetry and prose they will pres
ent holds special, individual meaning
for each of the professors, Madison
said.
"There are various reasons why each
one of us chose our own piece. (We)
chose our own kind of favorite litera
ture, pieces that spoke to us for a par
ticular reason, or a particular way of
styling, or a message that we wanted to
get across to this audience at this time."
Literature selections range from
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "A Slave
Mother at Pilgrims Point" to Lorraine
Hansberry's "To Be Young, Gifted and
Black," said Rosalind Fuse-Hall, asso
ciate dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences.
"I think what all of us are trying to do
is expose different literature to the stu
dents to give them a more expanded
understanding of the kind of literature
that celebrates African-American
women," Madison said.
In addition to sharing great litera
ture, the professors said they hoped to
send a message about Afro-American
women.
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Pyewacket Restaurant, located at 43 1
W. Franklin St., offers a unique dining
experience that includes free entertain
ment three nights a week at 10 p.m.
"What I wanted to create was a sense
of coziness or warmth," Pyewacket
owner David Bacon said. "I think a
formal atmosphere is more uptight."
Pyewacket began rather humbly 1 2
years ago as a "counter-culture, hippie
restaurant," he said.
"We started out with a small restau
rant we wanted to provide good
value with casual but professional serv
ice," Bacon said. "We try to create a
festive, fun environment."
Pam Patterson, a waitress at Pye
wacket, said, "One of the most attrac
tive things is the selection of prices for
something like a middle-of-the week
lunch with friends.
"It's also a good place to bring a
date. It can have a romantic atmosphere
or a casual, relaxed atmosphere de
pending on the customer."
Students can enjoy local musicians
playing the blues on Mondays, jazz on
Wednesdays and contemporary and
traditional acoustic music on Thurs
days. "We have three nights set up for
specific styles so people will know
basically what to expect," Bacon said.
"Just last night (Feb. 8) we had Pinky
Wyoming here," he said. "They're a
local band, great musicians and have a
large local following. They play great
music and are very entertaining."
Gamelan Ensemble, a 20-piece percus
sion group, McCafferty said. The unique
music still infiltrates the things he writes
and performs.
"It's a completely different form of
art," he said.
The foreign instruments have no
western counterparts. McCafferty de
scribed playing a hanging set of tuned
pots. Two musicians sat in the lotus
position, across from each other, and
used mallets to perform an interlocking
musical pattern.
"It was really a fascinating experi
ence," he said. "It taught me how to
concentrate."
McCafferty said he wrote country
music for a while, culminating in a trip
to Nashville, where he had a couple of
songs published. Country music got
him involved in the craft of writing
music, he said.
"For the last year I've been involved
in trying to make it more of an artistic
pursuit," he said.
The starting point, where creating
music is almost involuntary, is the ar
tistic element; the craft comes in with
finishing or recording the song, he said.
"The question of art or craft is a
never-ending dilemma I've finally
decided it's not that important," he said.
"But after doing it a while, the craft gets
easier and the art gets a little harder."
McCafferty said he could not put a
blanket label on the type of music he
played. He said he could only describe
what he was playing at the time. Cur
rently, his songs most closely resemble
some of the Talking Heads' music.
He said the important thing about
music was not what form it took. In
songwriting, people are labeled by the
type of music they play and it becomes
a matter of fashion, he said.
"Style isn't important it's the
artist's purpose. If something isn't
worthwhile next year, it's not worth
doing today."
McCafferty plans to open a record
ing studio outside Philadelphia when
he graduates. He is only short $2,000
worth of equipment of being able to
take in clients.
"I learned enough from working in
one that I could make a living doing
that," he said.
On the larger scale, McCafferty said
he knew if he really wanted to help
people, there were things besides mu
sic he could be doing.
"I know music isn't the most impor
tant thing in the world, but to me it's
something."
"We're also trying to share with them
(the students and audience) the mes
sages each one of our pieces speaks
to different levels of the life and history
of African-American women," Madi
son said.
Each piece has a theme, Fuse-Hall
said. "My particular piece demonstrates
an 18th century black woman's struggle
for love and peace and freedom."
"I am very much looking forward to
the performance," said performer Sonja
Stone, a professor in the Afro-American
studies department.
In addition to performances by Fuse
Hall, Madison and Stone, audience
members will be entertained by Jac
queline Bobo, a professor in the Radio,
Television and Motion Pictures De
partment: Margo Crawford, director of
the Black Cultural Center; and Thadi
ous Davis, a professor in the English
Department.
"(The audience will enjoy the per
formance), because I think they'll see a
variety of moods and creativity about
black women emerging from the text.
"This performance is one of the few
times that professors get to entertain
the students," Fuse-Hall said.
casual taste
Bacon, a practicing vegetarian, be
gan Pyewacket with a strictly vegetarian-focused
menu. "When we moved
here we decided we needed to broaden
our menu," he said.
"Somepeople wouldn't come to such
an esoteric restaurant. We wanted to
broaden our appeal," he said. "We're
not strictly vegetarian anymore, at least
half of our entrees are of a seafood
nature now.
"Because of our menu, we're unique.
I still believe greatly in the attributes of
a heavily vegetarian diet."
Jack Waters, a junior computer sci
ence major from New Bern, said, "It
was a little expensive ($7-$ 14), but it
had a distinctive selection of food, which
was well worth the price if it suits
your tastes."
Bacon said he would soon be open
ing a takeout counter which he said he
hoped would attract students on a more
regular basis. Takeout is available
Sunday through Thursday for dinner
and also Monday through Friday for
lunch.
"We get students mostly in the eve
nings and on the weekends. Most of
them come here with their dates," Bacon
said.
Leslye Jackson, a graduate student
in English, said, "Sometimes I come
just to eat. Even on nights without music
I come to talk with my friends because
it's conducive to conversation."
Pyewacket is open Monday through
Saturday from 1 1 :30 a.m. to 1 a.m. The
bar is open until 1 a.in. during the week.
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