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“disappear fear" to rock Lipinsky Hall
Photo Courtesy of Calico Entertainment
“disappear fear" will perform their original acoustic rock songs Friday night in Lipinsky Auditorium.
French Broad River Week to include
rock, rafting, races, and river cleanups
A Preview By Kim Sluder
Staff Writer
“disappear fear,” a Baltimote-based
acoustic rock band, will give their first
live performance atUNCA in Lipinsky
Auditorium tomorrow evening at 8 p.m.
“I expect a very good crowd. There
should be a good mix of students and
community,” said Hampton Hopkins,
assistant director of student activities.
‘This will be an excellent show.
They’re a hot group touring in the
country right now, and they’re popular
in this area,” said Hopkins.
Sisters Sonia and Cindy Frank, who
lead the six member band “disappear
fear,” got their start about five years ago
in the Baltimore area.
“We always wanted to sing together,
and so we finally did. It was very
popular. We decided to be a duo called
‘disappear fear.’ After six months, we
were able to quit our day jobs and work
as performers,” said C. Frank.
S. Frank writes the material and plays
the guitar, keyboards, and harmonica.
C. Frank usually sings harmony and
back-up and also plays percussion.
“1 like to play where (here are a lot of
people,” said C. Frank.
“It doesn’t matter if its a festival, a
very large club, an outdoor
amphitheater, or a stadium as long
as everybody there came to see us
and have a good time,” said C. Frank.
Critics and reviewers have
compared the acoustic sound of
“disappear fear” to that of the
“Indigo Girls” and Tracy Chapman,
but C. Frank feels comparing and
contrasting them is “old news.”
“When you hear the whole band
play, you won’t ever think of the
‘Indigo Girls’ or Tracy Chapman
again.
"We rock a lot more,” she said.
“I love the ‘Indigo Girls,’ but the
music is just different,” said C.
Frank.
“Creat music doesn’t have to be
categorized in ways that are limiting.
A great song can move across a
radio format because it’s something
that turns people on. It’s something
that reaches out and touches them.
That’s what greatmusic is all about,”
S. Frank told “Performance”
magazine earher this year.
“‘disappear fear’ is a name that
Sonia came up with at work at the
Rape Crisis Center,” said C. Frank.
“She kept it on a Post-it note in her
desk drawer. It’s really a great
name,” C. Frank said.
A Preview By Lenora Fouts *
Staff Writer
The 17th annual French Broad River
Week, co-sponsored by the French
Broad River Foundation and the Land-
of-Sky Regional Council, will be held
Sept. 11-19.
“Celebrate the River!” is the theme
for the week-long program aimed at
educating area residents about the need
to preserve and protect the river.
“The French Broad River is
something that we can all enjoy,” said
Marilyn Maxwell, managing director
of the French Broad River Foundation.
“It is one of the great natural resources
that we have.”
The sponsors of the event want the
public to realize the importance of
reducing pollutants and trash that flow
in the river, said Maxwell.
River cleanups are scheduled to help
beautify the areas along the river.
A river cleanup will kick off the
French BroadRiverWeek on Sept. 11
at 8 a.m. Free canoes will be provided
to those willing to help clean the river
between Rosman and Hap Simpson
Park.
Maxwell said she hopes UNCA
students will participate in the
scheduled events and in other projects
sponsored by the French Broad River
Foundation.
“We’re trying to get UNCA students
involved in water testing projects that
the foundation conducts,” Maxwell
said.
Approximately two dozen activities
are scheduled for the 17th annual
French Broad River Week.
River Rock 2, a benefit concert for
the French Broad River, will take
place Sept. 12at4;30p.m. at Be Here
Now. Results of the Mayors Cup and
Corporate Challenge raft races, held
earlier that day, will be announced at
a ceremony during the concert.
Area businesses will be competing
for the Corporate Challenge Cup in a
raft race at 2 p.m. at Jean Webb Park.
At 3 p.m., city and county officials
from the four-county river basin will
be attempting to win the Mayors Cup.
According to a River Week press
release, the French B road River Week
was started in 1977 with the specific
goals of educating government
officials about the river’s value and
about the actions needed to protect
the resource. Another goal was to
transform awareness about the beauty
of the river into action to improve and
to preserve the French Broad.
Rafts may be reserved to help clean
up the French Broad River, the
Swannanoa River, and Lake Julian on
Sept. 19at2p.m.“RiverWeekisjust
one of the rewards of having a clean
river,” Maxwell said.
The Ducky Derby will take place on
Sept. 11 at 12:30 p.m. Adopted rubber
ducks will race down the French Broad
River in pursuit of prizes for
participants.
All proceeds will benefit the new
Aleta Kaye Grant Intensive Care Unit
at Memorial Mission Hospital. The
unit will be opening in 1994.
In addition to the race, the Ducky
Derby Children’s Festival will have
clowns, stilt walkers, and games to
entertain audiences.
The sponsors of the annual festivities
have worked with many different
groups to reduce pollution in the waters
of the French Broad. Large fish
population areas now exist thanks to
their efforts, said Maxwell.
A variety of events will be taking
place in the river basin counties of
Buncombe, Henderson, Madison, and
Transylvania. One of these, a five
mile canoe uip passing through the
Biltmore Estate, will begin at 11 a.m.
on Sept. 15. Pre-registration for this
event is required.
staff Photo By Kate Sparrow
Pops In The Park
Wayne Kirby, chairman of the UNCA music department, conducted
the Asheville Symphony Orchestra Sept. 5 at City County Plaza.
“The name really grabbed me. It
seems like what’s between people is
fear. Once that isn’t an issue, people
just relax.
’T believe in the idea of ‘disappear
fear’ beyond the show business and
the entertainment aspect. I believe in
it to the core,” S. Frank told
“Performance.”
“disappear fear” will be performing
songs from their independently
released albums “Deep Soul River,”
“Box of Heaven,” and “Live From the
Bottom Line.”
The band’s label, “disappear
records,” is based out of California
and owned by Rick Rutstein.
Because “disappearrecords” is small
and mdependent, their material is not
carried by most of the larger music
stores in Asheville, but it can be found
at smaller bookstores like Malaprops.
“We’re hopefully doing some
recording this fall, but there’s nothing
new at this time,” Said C. FrMk,
“We have some different offers from
some different sized labels, but we
are waiting on the right offer to come
along,” she said.
The band’s latest project, due out
this fall, is the "disappear fear
songbook," which will contain all the
lyrics from the last three albums and
never-seen-before photographs of the
band.
“We met aUNC A student at afestival
in Alabama by the name of Danny
Jones a couple of years ago. Last year
he sentms a wonderful poem. This
poem was so moving and so perfect,
we decided to put it on the front page
of the songbook,” said C. Frank,
“disappear fear” is familiar with the
Asheville area and has played locally
at 45 Cherry and Be Here Now.
They also performed at many
benefits, including ones for AIDS,
gay and lesbian rights, and human
rights.
“disappear fear” is prranoted by two
agents, including Calico
Entertainment in Charlotte which is
directed by Jan Rosen.
Rosen is in charge of booking them
with the National Association of
Campus Activities (NACA), which is
the organization responsible for
booking the band on the college
circuit.
UNCA is a member of the NACA,
which is responsible for much of the
entertainment Ixxjked here, according
to Hopkins.
“disappear fear” is also planning
another show at Be Here Now on Oct
1.
When S. Frank is not doing
promotion or touring, she is a
“wonderful and talented artist who
draws, designs, and decorates,” said
C. Frank, who has recently gotten
married and is expecting a baby.
"Needful Things," for Stephen King addicts only
A Review By Painela Hart
Staff Writer
“Needful Things,” based on a
Stephen King novel, is not a must see.
While King movie fans may have the
need to see it anyway. King book
lovers may be disappointed with the
film translation.
The film, directed by Fraser C.
Heston, was full of recognizable faces
except for newcomer Max Von
Sydow, who plays the evil Leland
Gaunt.
Amanda Plummer was among the
familiar faces. Some may recognize
Plummer’s name from her role in
“The Fisher King.”
Sydow’s character. Gaunt, new to
the fictional town of Castle Rock,
opens up a store called Needful
Things. He has everything the
townspeople desire in his store. Gaunt
plays on their hopes and fears so they
will sell their souls to him in exchange
for a particular item.
A small boy ahnost shoots himself
in the head because he knows he is
going to hell for his need to have a
Mickey Mantle baseball card.
Ultimately, the film was
disappointing because the plot was
very predictable.
The story revolved around an
overused theme preaching the pitfalls
of greed.
Furthermore, I found myself
laughing in the wrong places. In one
scene, the music was terribly slow
and soothing while a murder took
place.
The director may have been
attempting to create irony, but the
effect was lostbecauseGauntwasnot
convincingly evil.
Gaunt’s use of humor and phrases
that didn’t seem to suit his character
or his age, combined with his
nonthreatening appearance, made his
character unrealistic.
The movie did have a couple of
questionably positive elements. It
contained the basic necessary
ingredients for a horror film, plenty
of bloodshed and violence.
In the beginning, the gory effects
kept the plot interesting, but the
endless chain of murders soon became
repetitious and predictable.
Usually the fihn versions of Stephen
King's novels are quite good, but this
one falls short of the standards set by
previous King films like “The Dark
Half,” which had a more complex story,
or the award-winning “Misery.”
While “Needful Things” will appease
the obsessive King fan who must read
all his books and see all his movies,
others should not bother seeing it.
Asheville's Architectural Ornament:
Our Buildings Speak
Elma Johnson, UNCA brick sculptor and fine
arts professor, will lecture on the history of brick
decoration at 7 p.nn. in the Lord Auditorium of
Pack Memorial Library. For more information
contact the Preservation Society of Asheville and
Buncombe County at 254-2343.
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