16 — Friday. August 13, 1999 - North Shore News
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Q O20 BRIGHT LIGHTS 29o0
Under the Volcano lets politics and music

UNDER the Voleano celebrated its tenth year of not-for pretit
festival suceess this vear. Nanted to celebrate Malcolm Lowre’s
great autobiography penned on the mudtlats below Cates Park,
the site of the festival, the words also smbolize the simmering

power of amass people's movement.
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been as much about

equal-opportunity. pofitical tecl.
Pacts and. for those with a world sensibility, a

intriguing niusica

The festival bas ahwavs
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huge opportunity to travel the wobe in sound during one ater
noan and evening. Long may the lava flow,

Maurice Bourassa (left) and Chris Leuchte of M.LN.E.
were running the sound for the festival main stage.

Puerto Rican born Lourdes Perez {right) is one of the
few female trovadoras continuing the vocal and string
tradition of “longing.” Her powerful contralto was accom-
panied by Peruvian violinist Javier Chaparro.

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Candice urly-Paws, (right) had a bevy of hopefuls
awaiting paint on their face. From the !eft are: Julie
frwin, Thea Mercez, Emma Preston, Candice Smith

Kachina Teixeira (from left), Josie Castro Lopes and
Natasha Stephenson were all enjoying the music and
vowed to return to Under the Volcano again neat year.

Poet Wayde Compton
was one of many poets
who read their work in the
woods by the waier.

The public telephone was
a popular attraction during
the afternoon! Caught in
the lineup were (from
front): Sean Morton,
Nadia Beaulieu, Tania
Alessandrini, and Geddy
.ee,

Jen Stewart figured she
would flip 1,300 veggie
burgers at La Quena’s
food stand by the end of
the evening.

Chetsey ;Mcintosh (centre) came back to the North
Shore to meet old North Van friends Brizana Van Riet
(right) and Danna Vajda at Under the Volcano. They

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Meegan Maultsaid and

Peter Edelmann were two
of the many organizers
behind Under the Volcano.

Jason Corless (from left), Hilary Keever and Tom
Liacas were asking people to think about mindless con-
sumerism. They were promoting the always interesting
Adbusters magazine.

St. John Ambulance volunteer Sheri Grahame taped the
drumming blisters on the hand of Adam Phoenix. The
first aiders were kept busy all afternoon with a variety of
scrapes, headaches and beestings, but the most serious —
injury was to the Filipino cook who severed her toe on
broken glass.

Sheila Gouchie (left) and Lynn Zimmerman want you
to respect the skin you live in. They were seiiing Nurture
with Nature’s natural soaps.

and Georgia Temple. were ail having fun with clay sculpting.

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