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SHAY DUFFIN, armed with a Guinness stout, plays Brendan Behan in
Confessions of an Irish Rebel at Centennial Theatre. The piay ends on

Sept. 2.

N’Dour is hot as Africa

From page 20

Gutnboot Cloggeroo, and Stom-
pin’ Tom Connors.And The Moon

Man Newfie. But Fiddle & Song is

his latest new recording.

The gent with the deep, lone-
some voice remains a playful orig-
inal, tossing out heartbreakers and
Canadian myth makers with the
easy assuredness granted by the 25
years he’s put into his craft.

Tunes like | Never Want To See
The World Again or It’s All Over
Now, Anyhow, wilf surely bring
on the salty tears. And Connors
lovingly tweaks the nose of a Ca-
nadian country contemporary on
Lady k.d. lang: “... her main =~

- claim to fame was how she sang

with a twang, and jumped around
like a rang-ee-tang, Lady k.d.
lang....”’ 7 :

The old stomper even offers a
neat antidote to help hold back
the northward creeping tentacles
of Uncle Sam’s free-trade octopus.
Put the honest patriotism express-
ed in Tom's Canada Day, Up

COUNTDOWN TO THE.
LONG WEEKEND.

Canada Way up against 01.5.
country singer Lee Green wood’s
tacky God Bless Canada, and
you'll see why Stompin’ Tom’s
fans mist over every time they see
an RCMP squad car in the rear
view mirror. We're talking some
serious Canadiana here fellow
country folk. Pass the spuds, bud.
*** Music From Do The Right
Thing, Motown Record Company,
1 .

One of the most provocative
flicks to hit movie house screens in
years, also comes with a lively set
of supporting tracks.

Public Enemy's Fight The Power,
the belligerent in-your-face rap at-
tack opening the film, declares
open season on fence sitters and
sets the tone for producer-direc- _
tor-writer-actor Spike Lee’s
brilliant ‘joint’.

Steel Pulse, Take 6, Al Jarreau
and Ruben Blades also add some
right musical moments fer Lee’s
Bed-Stuy morality play.

***3 Youssou N’Dour — The
Lion, Virgin Records 1989

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ANYONE INTERESTED in seeing
@ moving performance of the life
of playwright Brendan Behan
shouldn't miss Confessions of -a
Irish Rebel at Centennial Theatre.

Behan, who died in 1864, is
resurrected in the form of Shay
Duffin. Duffin delivers a lively
act, breaking into song and telling
stories while slugging back the
Guinness. He portrays a man full
of witticisms and torment; at
times it’s hard to figure out if it’s
Duffin or Behan on stage.

Confessions of an Irish Rebel
ends September 2. There are still
a few more days to catch this
touching show. Phone 280-4444
or 987-PLAY for tickets.

It's been years between new
releases, but it’s here and it comes
with polished claws and dancing
paws.

Since bringing the house down
at the now-defunct Expo Theatre
for a great snow at fast year’s Van-
couver jazz festival, N’Dour has
drawn much deserved worldwide
recognition as part of the Amnesty
International Hurnan Rights tour
entourage. —

The man from Senegal has a
high-flying wailing voice with a life
of its own. It swoops, it rockets,
it’s verbal jazz. With Super Etoile
de Dakar, N'Dour also has one of
the hottest bands on the scene.
The band trades in a seductive
synthesis of funk and snaky Afro-
polyrhythm and blues.

Amnesty pal Peter Gabriel
checks in for one of the highlights
on the album, Shakin’ The Tree. -
There's more to come from
N'Dour this year with a soon-to-be
released set of songs recorded
with Japan's Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Should be interesting.

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