A former Murphysboro man has established a scholarship for music students on SIUC’s campus. The scholarship is a memorial to his deceased wife, Ann Fisher Brouillette.

Charles Brad Brouillette, now living in Littleton, Colo., bestowed upon the University a $41,000 endowment to spawn creativity in talented musicians. This money will mean an annual $2,000 scholarship for a female music student at SIUC.

The University will decide the first recipient of the award in the spring.

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Junior or senior women from Jackson County who show academic promise and financial need will be given preference in the decision.

Altgeld series provides trio for listening enjoyment

As part of the Altgeld Performing Artist Series, Trios, a Free for All, will visit Shryock Auditorium at 8 tonight.

The show will consist of five different trios made up of internationally recognized School of Music faculty.

The Brass Trio will perform a Gerald Finzi piece I Have Loved Flowers that Fade and Two Pastiches by Walter S. Hartley. The String Trio will perform String Trio, Op. 9, No. 1 in G Major. The Jazz Trio will play J.J. Johnson’s Lament and In Your Own Sweet Way by Dave Brubeck. The Baroque will entertain with Sonata No. 2 in F Major, and the final trio of the show will encircle Shryock with a non-stop musical trip through Broadway.

This last trio will feature such classics as Make Believe from Kern and Hammerstein’s Showboat, One Hand, One Heart from Bernstein and Sondheim’s West Side Story and When the Kids Get Married from Schmidt and Jones’ I Do, I Do.

Tickets for the show will be $6.50 for the general public and $3 for children, students and senior citizens. For more information about this, or any of the series shows, call 536-2787.

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Kelley Deal brings talents to Copper Dragon Friday

Kelley Deal has catapulted herself out of the shadow of twin sister and current Breeder Kim Deal with her new band the Kelley Deal 6000. The band will rock the Copper Dragon Friday when they take the stage as the headlining act in a three-band show getting underway around 10 p.m.

As a guitarist for the popular rock band the Breeders, Kelley Deal tasted the sweetness of success riding high on infectious rockers like Cannonball, Divine Hammer and Saints.

But most of that success was attributed to band founder, songwriter and ex-Pixie Kim Deal.

Kelley Deal quit the Breeders shortly after being busted for allegedly accepting heroin through the mail and formed Kelley Deal 6000 immediately after a short stint in rehab.

Kelley Deal utilizes her creative freedom away from the Breeders. She is the driving force behind the Minnesota-based band stylizing the songs with her youth-like vocals as well as adding guitar.

Rounding out the band is drummer Nick Hook, bassist Marty Hedich and guitarist Todd Mund.

The band’s new album Boom! Boom! Boom! received praise in the September issue of Rolling Stone and was described as a melee of styles and sounds.

The Chicago-based acoustic rock band Hello Dave will get the crowd rocking in the second spot with its Southern-influenced songs from their new release West.

The Mitch Mitchell Band will begin warming up the crowd when the show starts around 10 p.m.