14 — North Shore News — Wednesday, May 3. 2000

North Van hosts New Music

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North Vancouver City
deeded to support the project
to the tune of $3,570 at a
recent council meeung. The
District of North Vancouver
will. provide $5,000) to sup-
port the festival, about
$1,900 less than che $6,930
requested by organizers. The
original amount of the request
Ww Weticrermiacd by popula-
tion-based funding” formuta
used by the Arts Commission.

rth Shore residents will
be able to attend the venues
featuring four bands on each
of three nights for tree. TI
festival will be held from M
10 to 13, John Donnelly, pro-
ducer of New West, said he
has received 1,000 submis-
sions, including 200 trom
international artists.

“We're urving to provide
support for live music, in gen-
eral. If people want
Vancouver and = North
Vancouver to remain good
cultural cities, they need to
support new music. One of
our overall goals is to support
emerging talent,” he said.

Umeeda Switlo, music
committee chair for the North
Shore Arts Commission,
agrees one goal of the festival
is to support young artists,
but also hopes there will be a
longer-term benefit for the
North Vancouver = music
scene. “The number one ben-
efit is for the public to see live
music and support the venues.
Venues in North Vancouver
have reduced significanely for
live music Over the past five
years. We need to encourage
venues to have live music.
And New West Music teaches
the venues how to do that,”
she said.

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

Family tree

A tree in Heywood Park that marks the birth of Kevin Johnson a year ago is the
first for North Van City’s tree commemoration program. Cost is $250 for tree selec-
tion and planting. Application forms are available in engineering at municipal hall.

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