Music consultant offers courses on rock ‘n’ roll

Lloyd Kirk, Lawrence, an educational consultant and sheet music buyer for Hume Music, will present “Rock ‘n’ Roll: 1950-1990,” a series of one-hour classes on pop and rock music history, beginning tonight.

The classes, sponsored by Music Access, meet from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesdays through July 31 at the Lawrence Visitor Center/Union Pacific Depot, Second and Locust streets. Topics will include the roots of rock; Elvis Presley; the advent of novelty songs; dances of the 1960s; The Beatles and the British invasion; the sounds of folk, funk and ‘Frisco; the bubble-gum backlash to 1960s rock; and disco fever, punk rock and MTV.

For more information, call Music Access 550-8024.

Cost is $5 a class, or $40 for the series.

City Band concert offers international fare

The Lawrence City Band will present “Around the World in 60 Minutes” at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the gazebo in South Park, 11th and Massachusetts streets.

The program is “Children of the Regiment”; the overture of “Italian in Algiers”; “Cockleshell Heroes”; “Amparita Roca”; “Galop” from “Genevieve de Brabant”; “Pachinko”; “Zacatecas”; “Gaelic Rhapsody”; “Slavic Farewell”; “Three Czech Folk Songs”; and “Americans We.”

The concert is free.

6News staffers win awards

6News earned honors in the 2001 Associated Press Broadcaster Awards in Kansas, which were Saturday in Kansas City, Mo.

Reporter-anchor Janet Reid took second place in the spot-news category for a story from January 2001 following up a car-pedestrian accident.

Reporter-anchor Alison Mann won two honorable mentions; one each for spot news and enterprise reporting. One story was about a World War II fighter pilot reunion, the other was on Ryan Gray and how the boy inspired the KU men’s basketball team on its run to the 1988 national championship.

Student’s program to inform community about spiders

Kansas University doctoral student Jamel Sandidge will teach the public about brown recluse spiders during a meeting Thursday.

The meeting, which begins at 7 p.m. in the Deal Six Auditorium of the Douglas County 4-H Fairgrounds

Sandidge is conducting the Recluse Community Project.