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SINGER RITA MacNeil, at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre until Saturday performs a wide varicty of music. She is
equally talented singing country and western, country-folk, the blues or ballads. A Cape Bretoner, she has been singing pro-
fessionally since the early 70s.She has released three albums and has 9 wide following throughout the Maritimes and Ontario.

Music a family tradition
for foiksinger MacNeil

RITA MACNEIL likes sing-
ing the blues.

Her: music ranges from
heartbreaking country and
western, through down and
dirty blues, through coun-
try-folk to contemporary
ballads. She sings of growing *
up, life at home, women’s
issues, coal miners, working
people — in short, of life
and love.

Rita MacNeil was born in
Big Pond, Cape Breton
where music was a family
tradition and an everyday
social activity. When she
began performing profes-

Ladies
night at
Arts Club
LEADING LADIES of the
Modern Muscial is onstage
at the: Arts Club Revue

Theatre on Sunday, October
27 at8 p.m, —

Featured are the songs of
the compelling.and powerful
Eva: Peron in Evita, the
brash and bold Roxie in
Chicago, and the wily feline

Mystery Cat in Cats.

Three of Vancouver’s
leading ladies of theatre,
song, and dance will take the
audience to Broadway and
back in Leading Ladies of
the Modern Musical.

Lynda. Boyd, Nancy
Herb, and Lelani Marrell,
together with musical direc-
tor/pianist John Owens,
present an evening of
dynamic: and memorable
‘songs from eight modern
Evita, Chicago,
Cats, The Wiz, Woman Of
The. Year, Little Shop Of
Horrors, -Dreamgirls, and A
Chorus Line.

Sionally in the early 70s, the
Tesponse was extraordinary.
She was soon delighting
audiences throughout the
Maritimes and Ontario. Be-
fore long her first album
Born a Woman was released
and she was featured in a
successful revue The Rise
and Follies u:' Cape Breton.

With the release of Part
of the Mystery in 198! her
career accelerated rapidly.
MacNeil toured extensively
in the Maritimes and gradu-
ated from pubs to concert
halls.

She was one of the most

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THE ORPHEOM LIVES AGAIN?

Your hosts RED ROBINSON
and HUGH PICKETT tnvite you
to savour a plateful of fun and nostalgia...

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IVAN ACKERY “MR. ORPHEUM"”

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and his HIG BAND SOUND
«es TONY TAYLOR ..,
ROSEMARY DEVESON & her DANCERS ...
& THORA ANDERS
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‘20s screen hit THE SON OF THE SHEIK!
FRANK MANKIN plays the Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe
Organ!

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popular performers in The
Great Canadian Folk Ex-
press which toured exten-
sively in Eastern Canada. In
1983, the CBC released a
third album, I’m Not What I
Seem.

This year MacNeil toured
across Canada with her
band, and spent the summer
performing in the Canadian
Pavilion at Japan’s World
Fair. A fourth album and a
single are currently in the
works. Rita MacNeil per-
forms at the Vancouver East
Cultural Centre, October
22-26 at 8 p.m. Reserve by
calling 254-9578.

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