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EntrepreneursStage ConcertAt AcademyPHOENIX, Page FiveTHE PLANETS are one of three rock groups appearing Friday, March 30, at the Brooklyn Academy ofMusic. The concert is being produced by six young Brooklyn Heights entrepreneurs.BY C A R R O L L SUGGRock is spreading to Brooklynand may find a new home here ifthe recently organized SNOYDMusic Productions can successfully stage their first concert,featuring the Planets, Pomeroyand Ron Josephs, set for Friday,March 30, at the BrooklynAcademy of Music.SNLYD is operated by six youngHeights Entrepreneurs, JohnBuckley, 26; Kevin Dunwell, 20;Neil Mara, 19; Mike Tainish, 19;John Palamara, 18; and MikeScott, 18. Each have been active inthe Heights community, participating in activities at theYMCA, Grace Church, and theAlfred T. White CommunityCenter.Four of them, Buckley, Scott,Dunwell, and Tainish, hadmanaged the 40-odd concertssponsored by REACH in the pastyear. (REACH is a communityprogram initiated in the fall of %u201971to give the younger generation inthe Heights something to do).%u201cREACH is where we gained ourcredentials and production experience,\is a musician himself. %u201cREACH isour roots, but we've grown awayfrom that.%u2019%u2019The churches and gyms wherethe REACH concerts were givenwere not conducive to the type ofshow and the quality show thatthey eventually wanted to produce.%u201cAfter a while we learned newtechniques which demanded betterfacilities,%u201d Mike said. %u201cThis andthe scarcity of free musical talentadded to our frustrations.%u201dIn late November the groupdiscussed what they wanted to do.%u201cWe wanted to be able to do a moreprofessional job;%u201d said Mike, %u201ctomake a career of creating a validavenue for new bands to make itand a good entertainment spot forthe community%u2019s young. We%u2019re notestablishing SNOYD to makemoney for ourselves just yet,though we expect it. Now our intentions are to channel that moneywhich is made back into thebusiness, ideally, to upgrade thenext concert.%u201dWorking from a family residenceon Joralemon St., the group hasbecome a nebulous of excitedactivity in the last few weeks. Theyworked out their ideas and got thebusiness organized while at thesame time preparing for the upcoming show. They made important contacts and began to letthe music world, the news worldand the public know that SNOYDexisted.Capital that was needed camefrom their own pockets. Contactwith BAM was made over thetelephone and since then, they%u2019velearned a lot about the business.The lighting, they learned, cannotbe handled by a non-equitytechnician. A union man will haveto be hired, even though SNOYDwill be there telling him what to do.The house manager at BAM, BobLucia, who rented them the MusicHall for approximately $1,000 toldthe boys that they were crazy andwould surely go broke.%u201cMany risks are involved,%u201d saidMike. %u201c The renaissance ofBrooklyn and the direction of ourcareers will depend directly on%u2022Continued on Page 19Chelsea to 'Fly-In' Mini-FestivalA %u201c m ini-festival%u201d of fourproductions, entitled %u201cFly ChelseaTo Brooklyn,%u201d will run from March20 through May 6, and will bringfour groups of theatrical innovators, who would not otherwisebe seen in the New York area, fromffeywood PlaysJazz HereJazz pianist and composer EddieHeywood will make his Brooklyndebut Saturday evening, April 7,when he appears in a specialconcert at Brooklyn College.Sponsored by the Brooklyn CollegeConcert Bureau, Mr. Heywood%u2019srecital is scheduled for 8 p.m. inthe college's Gershwin Theater.Tickets are available at $4.50, $4.00and $3.50. (Group ratesavailable).On the program will be thepremiere of his tone poem %u201cPortrait of Martha%u2019s Vineyard,%u201d aswell as selections from among hismore than 40 compositions andarrangements he made famous byother composers. Some 21 songsare listed on his program.One of the great jazz stylists, Mr.Heywood began playing in publicwhen he was 12 years old. His giftfor arranging led to engagementswith such jazz luminaries as BillieHoliday, Johnny Hodges, EllaFitzgerald, Pearl Bailey andColeman Hawkins.Following the paralysis of hishands in 1947, Mr. Heywood begancomposing. These songs includedsuch hits as %u201cLand of Dreams,%u201d%u201cSoft Summer Breeze%u201d and%u201cCanadian Sunset,%u201d which alonehas sold over two-and-one-halfmillion records. He returned toperforming as a pianist again in1971.various regions of the country toBrooklyn for limited engagements.Appearing in the festival will be:The New Theater, The IowaTheatre Lab, El Teatro Campesino, and Video Free America.Hailing from Palo Alto,California, The New Theater is atwo-man show featuring GeraldHiken and Paul E. Richards. BothHiken and Richards abandonedsuccessful Broadway, OffBroadway, T.V. and Film careersto leave New York in 1964 to seek amore %u201cmeaningful%u201d theater andlife style. They moved to Californiawhere they created The NewTheater, a theater where they arethe entire artistic, executive andproduction staff. Using bothmaterial that they have writtenand material by writers they love,Hiken and Richards perform withno make-up, sets, or lighting in astyle they describe as a %u201chandshake,%u201d with no slogans andnothing up their sleeves. The NewTheater will appear at Chelseafrom Tuesday, March 20 throughSunday, April 1.The Iowa Theatre Lab, who willbe appearing Tuesday, April 3through Wednesday, April 18, is theresident theater ensemble at theCenter for the New PerformingArts at the University of Iowa.Founded in 1970, this group of sixactors and a director seek to explore non-verbal, purely theatricalmeans of communication. Theywill be presenting The Naming, animprovisationally evolved workabout exaltation and terror.El Teatro Gampesino (the farmworkers%u2019 theater) grew out of theDelano, Calif. %u201c Huegla%u201d(grapestrike) in 1965. Since then,they have performed onpicketlines, trucks, in union halls,parks, playhouses, and streets...from the courtyard of theSenate Building in Washington,D.C. to the University of Paris.Their repertory, which includesfull length plays, skits, puppetshows, films, and a band is aimedat combating poverty and oppression throughout the world.Campesino will be appearing atQSpanish Restaurant121 A tla n tic A ve. 6 2 5 -8 5 3 9fe a tu rin g :\Sat. & 5un., Noen-4 P.M.OPEN FOP LUNCH AND DINNER SEVEN DAYSurnWilliam H. Van VleckWINES & FINE SPIRITSRscemmended by116MontagueLowest DiscountLiquor Pricesin theState ofNew YorkDelivery:mm. i - f * a m mm %u00abChelsea from Thursday, April 19,through Sunday, April 22.Video Free America, who will bethe last event of Fly Chelsea ToBrooklyn, is a collective of artists,writers, and journalists whose aimis to change television by creatingnew forms within the medium.Known to Chelsea audiences fortheir work on AC-DC, Kaddish, andKaspar, Video Free America willbe presenting %u201cThe ContinuingStory of Carel & Ferd,%u201d an eightmonitor video event termed as theunderground video documentarysoap opera. Video Free Americawill be at Chelsea from Tuesday,April 24 through Sunday, May 6.Performances of all events in thefestival are Tuesday and Sunday at7 :30, Wednesday through Saturdayat 8:30, with Saturday and Sundaymatinees at 3:00 (no Saturdaymatinees for Campesino and VideoFree Am erica). 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