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pop Small town roots grow Green Corn Revival

• friday • feb 26 • 2010

also inside: ‘Once’ captivates with music, love story • OU Opera Theatre to present ghost tale • Turnpike Troubadours are a treat • Taking Latenight Callers • Native roots to host ‘What a Crock’

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‘Once’ captivates with music, love story

By Mary Anne Hempe

Mary Anne Hempe

special to pop

Oscar nominees for Best Song are usually a snore, but my ears perked up in 2008 when Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova performed the fabulous “Falling Slowly” from a little Irish movie called “Once” (2006).

Shot in just 17 days, “Once” had been captivating audiences worldwide for more than a year with its emotional music and bittersweet love story.

Academy Award members apparently felt the magic as well; “Falling Slowly” won the Oscar for Best Song that night. It’s the best song to come out of a movie in the last 20 years.

“Falling Slowly” isn’t the only glorious thing about “Once,” though.

The whole movie is a celebration of music, love and the creative process, brought to life by Hansard and Irglova, two amazing musicians who had never acted before.

Our story takes place in Dublin, where we meet the guy (Hansard; we never find out either lead character’s name). The guy is a singer and a songwriter. Playing his battered guitar, he performs on street corners, picking up a few bucks here and there. To pay the bills, he works for

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Forgotten Video his dad (Bill Hodnett), a great old man who runs a vacuum cleaner repair shop.

The guy keeps telling himself that he’s going to go to London one day, to see if he can get a record deal.

Once he finishes his songs. Once he records a demo tape. Once he makes sure his dad will be OK without him.

And once he finally gets over his old girlfriend (Marcella Plunkett), who now lives in London.

That’s the hardest “once.” The split was especially painful for the guy, who discovered his longtime love cheating on him. Since she left, the guy has done little else but work, wallow in self-pity, and sing deeply personal songs for pocket change — until the night the girl (Irglova) wanders into his life.

“Did you write that?” she asks after listening to the guy pour his heart into a song. “Yes,” he said. “It’s good,” she tells him. The girl, a Czech immigrant, would know. The daughter of a concert violinist, she is

Films playing at Warren Theatre NEW RELEASES: • Cop Out: Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan play two NYPD partners seeking to solve a case dealing with a stolen, rare baseball card.

R. • The Crazies: Ogden Marsh is the ideal of small-town America, friendly faces and hometown values.

That is until the night a mysterious toxin drives town into a murderous frenzy. R. NOW SHOWING: • Avatar 2D and 3D: A band of humans are pitted in a battle against a distant planet’s indigenous population. PG-13.

• Crazy Heart: Bad Blake is a traveling country musician with a rough past. He meets Jean, a writer, who helps him to understand who he is under all his

baggage. R. • Dear John: When on leave, soldier John Tyree falls for college student Savannah Curtis, who is on her spring break. The two carry on their relationship through letters as John faces seven years of deployment. PG13.

• Edge of Darkness: Detective Thomas Craven is on a mission to investigate the death of his daughter, an activist.

In his search, he uncovers a corporate and government cover up.

R. • From Paris With Love: James Reece sets aside his cushy CIA day job to pair up with Charlie Wax in a scheme to stop a terrorist bombing plot. R. • Percy Jackson and the

Olympians: The Lightning Thieves: Accident-prone teenager Percy is in for a shock: He is son of Poseidon. He sets out on a quest when he learns that Zeus’s lightning has been stolen to prevent a war between the gods. PG. • Shutter Island: A U.S. marshal and his partner travel to a Massachusetts island to investigate the disappearance of a criminally instance patient. R. • The Book of Eli: Denzel Washington stars in this futuristic movie that fights to bring America back from the wasteland it has become. R. • The Tooth Fairy: Six-yearold Tess is highly disappointed when Derek tells her the tooth fairy isn’t real. PG.

a talented pianist. She’s too poor to afford her own instrument, but the proprietor of a local music shop lets her use one of his pianos an hour every day. Shaken from his pity-fog for a moment, the guy is intrigued.

He asks her to hear her play.

The session in the music shop produces “Falling Slowly,” a song the guy’s been working on for awhile but just can’t get right. The girl provides the missing pieces — vocal harmony that blends perfectly with the guy’s voice, and a beautiful piano background. The guy is suddenly jazzed about life thanks to this quirky, talented girl, who winds up giving him much more than he’d ever imagined. It’s the girl who will show him that he can finally stop using “once” as an excuse and get on with his life.

Hansard (who founded The Frames, a popular Irish band) and Irglova (a gifted pianist) are marvelous in the lead roles, bringing complete believability to the music and to the sort-of love story.

You can order “Once” OnDemand through Cox. It’s rated R for language, but I don’t recall hearing a single nasty word — only great music. Check it out.

Films playing at Robinson Crossing NOW SHOWING • Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squekquel — The singing chipmunk trio returns to contend with the pressures of school, celebrity and the Chipettes, a rival female group.

PG. • Invictus: Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African president, initiates a venture to unite the apartheidtorn land. PG-13.

• It’s Complicated: During her son’s college graduation, Jane hooks up with her exhusband Jake, who’s married to a younger woman. R. • Leap Year: After receiving earrings instead of an engagement ring, Anna decides to take things into her own hands by traveling to Dublin to propose to her boyfriend. PG. • Old Dogs: John Travolts and Robin Williams turn in their comfortable pace of life when odd circumstances lead them to caring for 7-year-old twins. PG.

Films playing at Hollywood Spotlight NEW RELEASES: • Cop Out: Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan play two NYPD partners seeking to solve a case dealing with a stolen rare baseball card. R. • The Crazies: Ogden Marsh is the ideal of smalltown America, friendly faces and hometown values. That is until the night a mysterious toxin drives town into a murderous frenzy. R. NOW PLAYING: • Avatar in 3D: A band of humans are pitted in a battle against a distant planet’s indigenous population. PG13.

• Crazy Heart: Bad Blake

is a traveling country musician with a rough past.

He meets Jean, a writer, who helps him to understand who he is under all his baggage.

R. • Dear John: When on leave, soldier John Tyree falls for college student Savannah Curtis, who is on her spring break. The two carry on their relationship through letters as John faces seven years of deployment. PG-13.

• Edge of Darkness: R. • Percy Jackson & the Olympians: the Lightning Thief • Shutter Island: A U.S. marshal and his partner travel

to a Massachusetts island to investigate the disappearance of a criminally insane patient.

R. • The Book of Eli: Denzel Washington stars in this futuristic, apocolypic movie as a man fighting to bring America back from the wasteland it has become. R. • The Wolfman: A man returns to his family estate to look for his missing brother.

There, he discovers a curse that turns men into beasts. R • Valentine’s Day: Chocked full of several A-listers’s, this movie connects 10 people and their Valentine’s Day experience. PG-13.

OU Opera Theatre to present ghost tale pop staff Based on the famed Henry James’ ghost story where the spirits are eerie extensions of everyday reality, leaving the audience to wonder if what they see and hear is real or imagined.

“This is a haunting and disturbing psychological thriller,” said William Ferrara, stage director for the OU School of Music Opera Theatre. “The student singers are very focused on exploring James’s obsessive and broken characters, and are giving intense performances.”

The University of Oklahoma School of Music Opera Theatre and School of Dance presents Benjamin Britten’s “The Turn of the Screw” 8 p.m. March 4 to 6 and 3 p.m. March 7 in the OU Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center.

A pre-opera panel discussion of “Words to Music: Henry James and Benjamin Britten’s Turn of the Screw” will be 7 p.m. Saturday in the

If you go The University of Oklahoma School of Music Opera Theatre and School of Dance presents Benjamin Britten’s “The Turn of the Screw” 8 p.m. March 4 to 6 and 3 p.m. March 7 in the OU Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center.

FYI Tickets are $15 for adults; $12 for OU faculty/staff and seniors; and $10 for students. For tickets or accommodations on the basis of disability, call the Fine Arts Box Office at 325-4101.

Reynolds Performing Arts Center.

The event is free and open to the public. Scholars will provide a look into the literary and musical background of “The Turn of the Screw” in anticipation of next week’s chamber opera. OU School of Music professor Thomas Bandy and Francesca Sawaya, a Henry James scholar from the OU English department are featured.

The performance is rated PG. Some material may not be suitable for children. The University of Oklahoma Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center is at 540 Parrington Oval, in the OU Arts District. Tickets are $15 for adults; $12 for OU faculty/staff and seniors; and $10 for students. For tickets or accommodations on the basis of disability, call the Fine Arts Box Office at 325-4101.

Turnpike Troubadours are a driving force

By Andrew W. Griffin special to pop

Turnpike Troubadours “Diamonds and Gasoline” (independent) 2010 You can have great songwriters and you can have great musicians and when those two artistic endeavors merge into one — as has happened in the case of Oklahoma’s Turnpike Troubadours — the results can be magical.

Such is the case with “Diamonds and Gasoline,” the new album from the Turnpike Troubadours, which was produced by Mike McClure, the eclectic singer-songwriter formerly of The Great Divide and currently leads the Mike McClure Band.

It makes sense that the Troubadours picked McClure. He’s got the Red Dirt music sensibilities that help enhance their sound. So, while their debut, “Bossier City,” was great,

CD review “Diamonds and Gasoline” is absolutely terrific.

Singer-songwriter Evan Felker, who hails from Broken Bow (which is closer to Shreveport, La., than it is to Tulsa or Oklahoma City), sings the Cajun-inspired “Shreveport” like a guy who knows the good places to pick up buckets of crawfish and cold bottles of Abita.

The same could be said of “Evangeline,” another Bayou State-centric song featuring some nice acoustic instrumentation and a sweet harmonica lick. Felker’s delivery is wistful and heartfelt.

McClure co-wrote “The Funeral” with Felker. This Southern rocker is really a dark story of the Southern gothic sort.”

The single “Every Girl” is a crisp song about a gal not ready to settle down. Sings Felker: “She don’t talk

about religion, she talks about the Stones.” Very cool.

Like a good train song? The Troubadours have one for you in the form of the chugging, fiddle-charged “Kansas City Southern.”

And who can resist the sultry classic “Long Hot Summer Days,” the John Hartford tune, covered here, that also is a rousing live song for many a country band.

Felker’s bandmates — guitarist Ryan Engleman, fiddle player Kyle Nix, bassist R.C. Edwards and drummer Giovanni Carnuccio, formerly of Mama Sweet — are tight and have honed that “band” sound that this disc required.

No sophomore slump here, y’all, “Diamonds and Gasoline” is the sort of record that reminds you just how good Okie music can be. And this is among the best Red Dirt music I’ve heard in a while.

Grade - A

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On the cover Small town roots inspire Oklahoma band

By Aaron Wright entertainment editor

Lead singer and songwriter Jared Deck said the songs that Green Corn Revival sing are mainly based on everyone’s experience growing up in a small town.

“Reconciling things like faith, love, regular adolescence… what you thought when you were a kid to what you think now,” Deck said.

Coming from various small Oklahoma places such as Carnegie, Atoka and Thomas, the six band members came together at college in Weatherford almost a year ago to put together the band. Since then, they have been touring across Oklahoma and Kansas. They released their EP with three songs in August 2009 and are well on their way to releasing their debut album within the next couple months.

The upcoming album, “Say You’re a Sinner,” will contain 11 songs.

The group, with their rootsy, upbeat sound, are commonly seen at various places on the Norman music scene. Natalie Houck

“Reconciling things like faith, love, regular adolescence… what you thought when you were a kid to what you think now.”

— Green Corn Revival lead singer and songwriter Jared Deck

photo provided

Check out a video of Green Corn Revival from their last concert at The Brewhouse at www.normantranscript.com. harmonizes with Deck and also supplies percussion such as cymbals. Ryan Houck plays guitar, dobro, banjo and pedal steel.

Caleb Creed plays piano, organ and trumpet as well as supplying vocals. Miles Johnson plays bass.

Stephen Rozzell plays guitar while Kenny Holloway plays drums.

The instrumentalists and

vocalists blend together smoothly, creating a scene where listeners can’t help but secretly tap their toes and find themselves swaying to the music.

So far, they credit their best gig as one they played at Cain’s Ballroom. They also will be appearing in the Paseo Music Festival in May. As for their dream show,

the group joked that late night was their goal, with one band member relinquishing his hopes of playing to Conan O’ Brien.

“I think everybody wants to play big shows to a lot of people,” said Rozzell.

To hear Green Corn Revival, visit their MySpace page at www.myspace.com/greencornrevival.

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Latenight Callers need to stay on the line

By Doug Hill pop reviewer

The Latenight Callers Self-Titled Last Call Music Hall Publishing Here’s a call you’ll want to pick up.

Lawrence, Kan.-based duo Julie Berndsen (vocals) and Krysztof Nemeth (all other instruments) have made a dark disc that’s attractive albeit vaguely menacing.

Berndsen’s voice has a breathy femme fatale quality that’s the aural equivalent of a pretty poison cocktail. It’s not indie rock so much as

sinister lounge music in a joint where you’d best keep

an eye on your drink. In comparable sound Danish

duo the Ravonettes come to mind but without the perverse bubblegum underpinnings.

Nemeth’s undulating synthesizer slithers like a black cobra through tracks titled “Gypsy Moll” and “Red Bricks, White Ghosts.” These are all original compositions save The Misfits’ “Hybrid Moments” that’s rendered as a languidly stifled scream.

The only complaint is that at six tracks, this call is too short. Here’s hoping next time The Latenight Callers stay on the phone longer.

Comedian to share thoughts at Norman church pop staff Political humorist and singer/songwriter Roy Zimmerman will offer comedic relief 8 p.m.

Saturday at the Norman Unitarian Universalist

Fellowship, 1309 W. Boyd St. On his Real America tour, Roy’s music takes a poignant, yet light hearted look at war, the economy, poverty, ignorance, bigotry, neo-conservatism, homo-

phobia, creationism, greed, lust and fear. Backed by his acoustic guitar, Zimmerman’s sometimes biting satirical style lies at the heart of American folk music and takes potshots at politicians of all stripes.

Tickets are available at the door for a suggested donation of $15. For information, call 226-9712 or e-mail nuuf@cox.net. To learn more about Roy Zimmerman, visit royzimmerman.com.

Native roots to host ‘What a Crock’ pop staff Native Roots Market will host their almost annual crock pot challenge, “What a Crock” 7 p.m. Saturday at the Dreamers Concept Studio Foundation, 324 E. Main St. “We accidentally skipped last year,” said Sara Kaplan.

Native Roots invites their customers to prepare crock pot dishes for the competition. Secret judges will taste test the entrees and desserts and a winner will be

declared around 8:15 that night. Attendees also will be able to test taste and select the people’s choice

winner, the “Cream of the Crop.”

Entry is $10, with the money benefiting the

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‘Momentum’ set for March 5,6 pop staff “Momentum: Art Doesn’t Stand Still 2010” will be March 5-6 at the Goodwill Warehouse, 410 S.W. 3rd St. in Oklahoma City.

Momentum is a night of artwork from emerging artists that captures still and interactive art.

The more mellow night, “Momentum Downtempo,” will be 8 p.m. to midnight, March 5. The faster pace night, “Momentum: Full Speed,” will be March 6.

Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door.

For more information, visit momentumoklahoma.org.

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Singer gives back road American tour

By Debra Levy Martinelli special to pop

Nashville singer/songwriter David Olney, whose music has been covered by such artists as Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt, will be joined by guitarist Sergio Webb at the Performing Arts Studio’s Sunday Winter Wind concert.

The performance, scheduled for 7 p.m., will be held at the PAS’s home, Santa Fe Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave. Olney’s most recent CD, “One Tough Town (2007),” takes listeners on a back roads tour of American music.The title track describes a seasoned performer who tells a young colleague that of all the stops on the universal circuit, he can count on the planet Earth to be the toughest gig.

“I guess I see One Tough Town as a retrospective of a hundred years of American music — blues, country, rock, swing and all stops in between,” Olney said. “No

such vision can be complete.

There’s just too much to cover to achieve that kind of goal.

But it has been my life’s work, and my life’s pleasure, to see how close I can come.”

Webb also has played with Pinto Bennett and The Famous Motel Cowboys. His solo albums include Long Green Hour and his latest CD, Bolivar Blues, released in October 2009. On Bolivar Blues, Webb — who plays guitar, banjo and ukulele — is accompanied by Olney (harmonica), Davies (harmony vocals), Rob Price (bass, percussion, harmony vocals), Bruce Baxter (accordion), Teddy Jones (fiddle), Fran Breen (drums, percussion) and Chris Scruggs (steel).

Tickets for the performance are $15. Seating is limited and advance purchase is recommended.Tickets are available at the Performing Arts Studio or TicketStorm outlets, including Guestroom Records and Party Galaxy stores in the metro area. A small service charge will be applied to tickets purchased through TicketStorm.

For more information on Winter Wind and other PAS programs, visit www.thepas.org or call 3079320.

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Invictus PG13 1:00 4:00 6:55 9:35 Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Squeakquil PG 12:55 2:55 4:55 7:15 9:15 Princess and the Frog G 12:50 2:50 4:50 7:10 9:20

Old Dogs PG 12:40 2:40 4:40 7:05 9:10 Twilight Saga: New Moon PG13 12:45 4:05 7:00 9:30 Planet 51 PG 12:30 7:20 It’s Complicated R 2:30 5:00 9:25

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POP’S

SOCIAL CALENDAR

FRIDAY

FEBRUARY/MARCH

26 The Street Kings and Jacuzzi Lifeguards, The Brewhouse, 9 p.m.

Adam Ledbetter, solo/piano, 6:30 p.m., Othello’s Ali Harter, 9 p.m., Othello’s

Stuart Davis and the American Scene artistic talk, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 6 p.m., free Norman Area Music Teachers Association 20th Annual Mall Marathon, 5 p.m.- Sunday at 6 p.m., Sooner Mall west end Mo Pair, Michelangelo’s, 6:30 p.m.

5 Elvis P. Cock, rock, 9 p.m., The Brewhouse One Night of Queen, Riverwind Casino, 8 p.m., $20-$30 John Calvin, Singer/ Songwriter, 9 p.m., Othello’s On Night of Queen Queen Tribute Show @ Riverwind Casino

SATURDAY

27 Mo Pair, Michelangelo’s, 6:30 p.m.

8 p.m., Silver Dollar Saloon in Route 66 Bowl, 3810 N.W. 39th St., $5, 946-2717, 7 p.m.

Columbian Night, OU Catlett Music Center, 5:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. food, dance. $5-12.

Norman-based world music duo, Arabesque, joins with two visual artists and two local restaurants to present “Windows into Other Worlds,” a musical performance, art exhibit, and exotic food sampling with a blending of Celtic, Asian, Middle Eastern, Indian, Latin American, and African melodies, motifs, and flavors. 6 p.m. for art viewing and food sampling, 7 p.m. for concert, $10 suggested donation, 1007 River View Drive, 664-2134

SUNDAY

28 David Olney, Winter Wind Concert Series, Performing Arts Studio, 7 p.m.,$15, 307-9320 Sunday Science Film, “Pi,” Sam Noble Museum, 2 p.m., free with museum entrance

What a Crock, crock pot challenge, hosted by Native Roots Market, 7 p.m.

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Robby Webb, Kerry Folsom, world music, Michelangelo’s

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Roger Jaeger, Singer/ Songwriter, 9 p.m., Othello’s

Winter Wind Concert Series, Lucy Kaplansky, Santa Fe Depot, 200 S. Jones, 7 p.m., 307-9320

Loose Change and The Chain Gang (Pretenders Tribute Band), Rock/Pop, 9 p.m., The Brewhouse

Second Sunday Poetry Reading, Kristin Hahn, 2 p.m., free, Performing Arts Studio Travis Linville, Otherllo’s, 7 p.m.

Mike Hosty Solo, Deli, 10:30 p.m.

TUESDAY 2

Nick Wu portrait exhibit, Performing Arts Studio, 200 S. Jones Ave., 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Take Action Tour supporting donor education, Diamond Ballroom, 6 p.m., $16$19, Mayday Parade, A Rocket to The Moon and There For Tomorrow RAW at the Ford Center, John Cena vs. Randy Orton, special guests Cheech and Chong, $15-$70, 7:15 p.m.

Comedian Roy Zimmerman, 8 p.m., Norman Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1309 W. Boyd, suggested $15 donation

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MONDAY

WEDNESDAY 3

See Rodin’s “The Kiss” at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, free admission today, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Lorna Dee Cervantes reads for the Mark Allen Everett Poetry Series at 7 p.m., National Weather Center Auditorium, OU Campus (NE Corner Highway 9 & Jenkins).

Main Site Comtemporary Art Gallery, Linda Warren and Don Holladay exhibit, through March 27, 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Wednesday through Saturday.

4 Jillian Holzbauer, singer/songwriter, 7 p.m., Othello’s Open Mic Night with South 77 band, 9 p.m., Othello’s Green Corn Revival, folk rock, 9 p.m., The Brewhouse Daniel Swan, lecture on Native American Church, 7 p.m., Sam Noble museum, free

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Donna Cox and Dolores Leffingwell, Sutton Faculty Artist Series, 8 p.m., OU Pitman Recital Hall, $8

See Rodin’s “The Kiss” at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, free admission today, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Main Site Comtemporary Art Gallery, Linda Warren and Don Holladay exhibit, through March 27, 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday.

Citizen Cope, Diamond Ballroom, 7 p.m., $25

THURSDAY

11 Brandon Pruitt, Singer/ Songwriter , Othello’s, 7 p.m.

Great Decisions discussion series, “Global Crime,” Peter Krug, 6:30 p.m., rooms A/B at the Norman Public Library

Sutton: OU Symphony Orchestra with special guest artist, 8 p.m., OU Sharp Concert Hall, $8

brewhousemusic.com $1 Special Drafts