Viking_Yearbook_64

130 Festival of the Arts for 1964 was ac– claimed an excellent program by those attending-few did . Festival Director David French and his fiance' Beverly Kingwell assembled a prestige filled variety of art forms for the week-long event, April 13-19. In their disdain for advertising they didn 't tell anyone about it. Sounds of New Orl eans' Bourbon Street entertained a minute audience as the Tenth Avenue Jazz band opened the festival with a concert of original two-beat Di xieland jazz. Attendance grew as the Arts Festival proceeded . Many students and local art enthusiasts gathered in the White Gallery for an art exhibit and a recep– tion featuring State University of Iowa Professor Byron Buford and Mrs . Jean Knudson, Portland artist. Buford later demonstrated painting restoration and cleaning methods, practices requiring an artist's appreciation and a techni– cian's skills . John Greenway, America 's leading folklorist of social protest songs , accompanied himself on the guitar as he sang sometimes stirring , sometimes mournful songs. Music in Latin American style came twice to the festival ; the formal style of co-ntempo– rary Latin chamber music by the Port– land Symphonic Chamber Music group and in a PSC band performance .