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Jefferson Public Radio will broadcast a live in-stu- dio performance by singer, songwriter and Red Bluff native Margaret Glaspy at noon Friday, June 3, on 89.7 FM throughout Tehama and Shasta counties and online at ijpr.org. "Emotions and Math" is not simply the name of Margaret Glaspy's new de- but album — it's both an artistic and personal mis- sion statement. The title track talks about being a touring musician and fig- uring out how to see your partner, looking at the cal- endar and calculating how you're going to spend time together. But "Emotions and Math", which ATO Re- cords will release on June 17, sums up an epiphany she had while making the record. "In a lot of ways, it's kind of how I operate," Glaspy said. "I've always consid- ered myself a free spirit, someone who goes with the flow, but actually I'm not ex- actly like that. This record really taught me that I'm super analytical and pro- cess-driven. I think they really do go together, emo- tions and math. Nobody is just one thing." After leaving Red Bluff, Glaspy, who's now 27, headed to the east coast. From competitive fiddle to marching band trombone, she exercised her music abilities any way she could. Her talents earned her mul- tiple honors early on in her career, including scholar- ships and opportunities to refine her craft. "I went to Berklee College of Music in Boston for a se- mester and paid for it with money I got from the Youn- gArts Program," Glaspy said. "I wasn't able to afford school after that semester, so I snuck into workshops and master classes at the school and started to write songs more seriously." For three years, Glaspy lived in Boston, working odd jobs while fine-tuning her songwriting skills. She's now based in New York. Glaspy is self-producing her debut album, which frames her revealing rumi- nations in shards of jagged guitar rock. Building on its early buzz — Rolling Stone hailed first single "You and I" for its "hot barbs of elec- tric guitar." "A lot of the songs are so specific but also feel like they apply to so much of my life," Glaspy said. "I realize more and more on a daily basis that if you're given a microphone to share what you have to say, then I hope to God that I don't encour- age some fantasy of what we're supposed to be or how we should live our lives." Jefferson Public Radio provides public radio to the North State from its studios in Ashland, Ore- gon at Southern Oregon University and at the Cas- cade Theatre in downtown Redding. It's Rhythm and News Service features new music by emerging artists on 89.7FM and online by se- lecting "Rhythm and News" at ijpr.org. JEFFERSONPUBLICRADIO RedBluffnativetalksaboutdebutalbum MargaretGlaspy. CHICO The last chance to see "Fresh Ink 2016" will be tonight through Saturday at the Blue Room Theater. Written by Bryce Cor- ron, Jennifer Foreman, Al- exandra Hilsee and Evin Wolverton and directed by Martin Chavira, Joe Hilsee, Julia Rauter and Erika Soe- rensen, see the creative pro- cess at its fastest and most furious with four new plays, one week to write and one week to rehearse. Shows are at 7:30 p.m. and all tickets are $10. Upcoming productions include "The Goonies" June 3-5 and "Bloomsday 2016" June 16. The Boys & Girls Clubs of the North Valley's Triple Threats will present "The Goonies" at 7:30 p.m. June 3 and 4 and 2 p.m. June 5. Kids will follow a myste- rious treasure map into a spectacular underground realm of twisting passages, outrageous booby-traps and a long-lost pirate ship full of golden doubloons. Watch as the kids race to stay one step ahead of a family of bum- bling bad guys. Tickets will be $5 at the door, or pre-sale at the Boys & Girls Club, 601 Wall St. "Bloomsday 2016" will be a celebration of music and the music of James Joyce's "Ulysses" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 16. For tickets and more in- formation, visit http://blue- roomtheatre.com/. THEATER Upcoming at the Blue Room in Chico REDDING The Cascade Theatre will host the Kids' Summer Movie Club, which is for all ages and will pres- ent a series of the best chil- dren's films paired with games, prizes, costumed characters and the chance to win tickets to other Cas- cade family events at 2 p.m. every Saturday in July. • July 2 — Finding Nemo: After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clown fish sets out on a journey to bring him home. • July 9 — Charlotte's Web: Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the sea- son, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Char- lotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen. • July 16 — The Lorax: A 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the af- fection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lo- rax, the grumpy yet charm- ing creature who fights to protect his world. • July 23 — Aladdin: When a street urchin vies for the love of a beautiful princess, he uses a genie's magic power to make him- self off as a prince in order to marry her. • July 30 — Honey I Shrunk The Kids: The sci- entist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects. Now the teens must fight diminu- tive dangers as the father searches for them. For more information, call the Cascade Theatre, at 1733 Market St. in Red- ding, at 243-8877 or visit www.cascadetheatre.org. CASCADE THEATRE Take the family to free movies this summer By Jeffrey Fox Correspondent CHICO His father wanted him to be a trumpet player, specifically a jazz trumpet player, so Tony Burman started playing trumpet in grade school. "I was always that idiot who wanted to be like the cool kids and the cool kids didn't play trumpet. The cool kids played things like drums," Burman said. "I eventually got a drum, just a snare drum and played that in school." In grade school, Bur- man was able to get into the Honors Music School. "I don't know how I got into that because I wasn't very good at the drum and you had to be recommended by the music instructor. I think someone put in a good word for me or some- thing," he said. Burman's brother, on the other hand, was very good at music and was in- terested enough to get gui- tar lessons and get classi- cal training. "He cared about his instrument much more than I did and he could play anything," Burman said. It was then that he started to get into guitar when his brother taught him but he still didn't stick with it at the time due to a low interest level. "By then I was in high school and I started going to see all the high school bands playing around town (in Paradise)," he said. "The funny thing is many of those high school bands from back then, which was late '70s and '80s, are still making mu- sic right now and making money with it," he said. When Burman turned 18, he immediately moved to Chico and messed around with the guitar a little here and there and decided to take guitar les- sons. By the second lesson the instructor told Burman that he didn't really need lessons and only really needed to practice a cou- ple things. So he quit his lessons and started prac- ticing enough to play lead guitar. "Around 1984, some guys and I started a cover band called Prankster and we did pretty good," he said. "We played for about five years around Chico at all the dives. We played places like The Empire Club and The Optimo. We even played The Bambi Inn in Butte Meadows." Eventually, he left the band because he had an alcohol dependency issue and didn't want to play in bars anymore. He ex- plained how he wanted to start writing his own mu- sic at that time. "I had a son and wanted to be in his life so I kind of stopped doing music and performing for a while but eventually started playing with an Indie band called 'Medusa Farm Girl,'" he said. "We changed the name to Hamilcar Barca for awhile then back to Me- dusa Farm Girl and played at places like Juanita's and with bands like Ride the Nine, Trench, and Vomit Launch." Burman's son, Nate Burman, plays guitar and provides vocals for Chico metal band Armed For Apocalypse. Burman expressed how advanced his son was at an early age when it came to mu- sic. "I was buying a cell- phone back in the day and Nate was about 6 or 7 and was tugging on my shirt to show me some- thing. He walked me over to a Yamaha key- board and without a sin- gle lesson in his life he played Beethoven's Für Elise. I had played it on record at home but in the 20 minutes it took me to sign up for a cellphone he had figured out how to play it by ear." Burman said his son played both pieces of the song so well that he was compelled to buy him a pi- ano. "He was born to play and his band is one of the most popular bands in the area even though he now lives in Portland he still does guitar and vocals for Armed For Apocalypse," he said. When Nate got older, Burman met a man who recorded kids bands for free and wanted to record Nate's band. "I had to go meet this guy before to make sure he was legit and he was. The man had a Christian recording studio called Good Shepard's Studio and offered a five song demo for youth bands for free as a community service," Bur- man said. Burman started work- ing at Good Shepard's Stu- dio and said he ended up recording a lot of youth who are now part of the core of the current local music scene. He would later go on to do live recordings at Ful- crum Records as well as work with Zeke Rodgers at Black Lodge Recording Studio. Burman eventually started his own record la- bel with his friend Matt Coogan called, Idlevinyl Records. "We recorded my nephew Nik's band, Brain in a Cage, which was the biggest thing in the scene at the time," he said. That helped get the re- cord label's name out there. He also co-produced Chico synthpop band Squirrel vs Bear's first album. Burman still offers re- cording through Idlevi- nyl Records. He is plan- ning to record a couple albums of his own mu- sic soon. "I have written about two albums worth of songs. I'm about to record an acoustic album of some of my songs called 'Songs They Never Heard'. Burman describes his music style as psychedelic, folk rock. "After that, I have a psy- chedelic album I'm going to put out with a few of the original Medusa Farm Girl songs that haven't been played since the '90s. For that one, I plan to record with other musicians," he said. For that project he said he is looking for a jazz ori- ented drummer, a Kim Deal oriented bassist and perhaps another guitarist besides himself. MUSIC Ar ti st s tr ug gl ed w it h learning, loving the guitar JEFFREY FOX — CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Tony Burman performs for E-R Sessions. Online: Watch Tony Bur- man's E-R Session per- formance at WWW.CHICOER. COM/SESSIONS. Round Up Saloon Round Up Saloon 610WashingtonSt. (530) 527-9901 COMING SOON 16Beersontap providinga larger selection of craft/micro beers 734MainStreet 530-690-2477 11am-9pm Mon.-Thur. 11am - 10pm Fri. & Sat. 11am-8pm Sun. 9 CRAFT BEERS ON TAP Pizza Restaurant A+E » redbluffdailynews.com Thursday, May 26, 2016 MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS A6