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Folk band

diggery Pokery |

has Infectious
sound and style

By Deana Lancaster
Contributing Weiter
deana@nsnewscom

JIGGERY Pokery does:
n’t even have to be
playing for an audience
to get people up and
dancing,

Sometimes In the summer
when the North Shore-based
Rngllsh folk and dance band {s
practising At one member's
tome with the windows wide
open, passereby begin to
dance in the street,

The band has that effeet on
people,

‘ Bapeclaly for clilfulten, {t's
Irresistible,” says dance caller,
singer and spoon player in the

band Betty Armstronge:

where's a lot of us ploylug
and moving around, we're
really high energy, and chil-
dren pick up on that, they
Jump. around all over the
place.”

Armstrong and her hus:

“band Erle helped found the
band six years ago.

It was a natueal evolution from the
North Shore folk club. they ran at
Presentation House upon thelr arrival

~ ftom Britain in 1980,

“We had a stormin’ folk club there for

seven years. People used to hang, off the
chandellers,” Armstrong says,
" Then some of the men began (and
continue) to perform as Morris dancers
— anclent English ritual dancing.

Hrom there, some of the Mortis

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(T’LL make you feel like dancing — English folk and
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to the Vancouver International Children's Festival,

dancers and Betty, the only woman in the
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dances and do female harmonites.”) -

became figgery Pokery, an 11 -plece
English country band known for rollick
Ing musle with everything from Betty's
spoons to fiddles, a button accordion,
tuba, mandolin and nore,

The nvusie, 8: ys Betty, fs very British
(tinglish, Scottish, Irish and some
Welsh), as are all the band niembers

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May 26 to June 1 ‘97 ¢ Vanier Park 1100 Chestnut Street

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“This ly our Inteaduetion to
the festlval as mustelans,” says
Aroistrong, “But as parents
we've been golng for years.”
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ognized around the workd as
an danovator Inthe Held offarts
lor young people. ‘This youn
Ws celebrating dts 20th
_ Anniversary with performers,
treats and activitles that. are
better than ever,
Along with 128 malnstage
yerformanices inside the full:
ar red and white tents, the
activities fy the village, open
alr shows at the bandshell and
roving performers, there are
apecla headliners for this year:
Eggopolls, billed as “an intlat-
ed palace of light and color
uaranteed to stop tratiic,”
the offlelal birthday party,
gigantle animal sculptures an
more,
‘The festival begins tomorrow,
May 26, and runs to Tuesday,
June 1 at Vanier Park, behind
the Plangtarlum in Vancouver,

Tickets for the mainstage shows are
avallable from ‘Ticketmaster: 280-4444,
or at the festival box office during festi+
val week,

But if you’ can’t make tt to the
Children's Bestival to catch Jiggery
Pokery, don't despair, Armstrong: says
the band Is hoping to play at this year's
Harmony Arts Bestival in West
Vancouver,

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