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BRIGHT LIGHTS

GROUSE MOUNTAIN kicked

off the first night of the

ninth-annual DuMaurier

International Jazz Festival

with a reception on the Rusty

Rail Deck for tour and travel

industry suppliers.

The reception was moved

indoors to Lupin’s due to the

evening's cold air.

Approximately 200 people —

hotel concierges, trave!

agents, tour company offi- 5 a . ;
cials, etc. —- attended the ; 8 i ” cana: ned
reception, from 7-9 p.m., : ANNE MARIE Miller, Francine Plourde and Johanne A.
which featured bluesy Black Markgrat enjoyed the show.

Cat Bone.

After the reception, the pariy-

ers moved outside, to

Paradise Park, for Bongo

Bob’s performance as part of

the Jazz Festival.

The festival runs from June

24 to July 3 and will involve

hundreds of technicians, vol-

unteers and more than 800

musicians from around the

world performing at venues

scattered around the Lower

Mainland.

This year the festival’s menu

will also include poetry in ; ; ; :

addition to the blues and jazz : —_ . NEWS photos Brod Ledwidge

music. ;

For more information, inter- PIANO MAN Lou Mastroianni tickles the ivories with the Latin § eH Ex . Ty

ested persons can caii the jazz combo Bongo Bob. The band helped kick off the ninth-

Jazz Hotline at 682-0706. annual DuMaurier Jazz Festival on Friday evening. MUSICAL GROUP 4 The Spirit of Jazz took in the festive event.

Folkfest brings
out many artists

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THE ARTS Council's Sheralee
Hoeppner (above) sells T-
shirts at Folkfest ‘94.

FOLKFEST ‘94 celebrated its
20th anniversary last week-
end with most of the events
taking place at Norseman
Park. Chinese, Japanese and
square dancers, along with a
host of choirs and other
musical performers, were

among the more than 25 |’ , ; é
organizations that participat-  p “7g “ f BAY |} LN be:
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A parade Saturday morning TOQKIE MUSSATTO came out to display his crafts made from
kicked off Folkfest Weekend. tin cans — also known as Tookie’s Tins.