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News Bureau . Schofield Hall 201 . Eau Claire, WI 54702
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EAU CLAIRE - Singer-songwriter Michael Jerling will present a free outdoor concert on Monday, June 30, at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

The Summer Session Programs show will begin at 7 p.m. on the Central Campus Mall (rain: Schofield Auditorium). Refreshments will be sold. Audience members are invited to bring blankets or folding chairs for lawn seating.

Illinois-born songwriter Michael Jerling became involved with music while he helped run The Cabin as a student at UW-Eau Claire. Settled now in Saratoga Springs in upstate New York, Jerling has been a noted artist on the club, college and festival circuits since 1975. He has been among the winners of the prestigious New Folk competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival, and his involvement with the seminal Fast Folk Musical Magazine in New York City led to one of his songs being included on the album "Fast Folk: A Community of Singers & Songwriters" (Smithsonian Folkways 2002). His newest CD is "Little Movies" (2001).

Jerling's live shows are buoyed by his sharp sense of humor, and his smooth baritone voice is backed up with consummate skill by six-string and 12-string guitars, harmonica and mandolin. A keen student of the good and ghastly in American life, he weaves themes like a novelist.

These free events are also on campus during the week of June 30:

• Jazz combos will play during lunch in the open air from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday on the Central Campus Mall (rain: The Cabin of Davies Center). A variety of grilled lunch items will be sold.
• "Say Anything" (1989) will screen Tuesday and Thursday at noon and 7 p.m. in Davies Theatre, continuing a weekly Summer Cinema series about young people making their way in the world.

  The future may be vague on the day of his high school graduation, but Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack) is sure about one thing: he wants a date with the class valedictorian (Ione Skye). His friends and her father (John Mahoney) are sure she's out of his league - and they're wrong. Lili Taylor and an uncredited Joan Cusack costar in Cameron Crowe's debut film.

  "'Say Anything' exists entirely in a real world, is not a fantasy or a pious parable, has characters who we sort of recognize, and is directed with care for the human feelings involved," wrote Roger Ebert. "When Entertainment Weekly recently chose it as the best modern movie romance, I was not surprised." Rated PG-13, the 100-minute color film will screen via DVD projection.

Summer Session Programs continue through July. A complete schedule is available from the Activities and Programs office, Davies Center 133, (715) 836-4833.
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Judy Berthiaume, Director
UW-Eau Claire News Bureau
Schofield 201
(715) 836-4741
newsbur@uwec.edu

Updated: June 20, 2003