— Friday, July 24, 1998 ~ North Shore News

NORTH SHORE NEWS ENTERTAINMENT & STYLE GUIDE

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APE Breton’s stepdancing fiddler Ashley

MaclIsaac answered his major-label debut
Hi, How Are You Today? with the follow-up
release Fine, Thank You Very Uuch.

Now three vears later, his onstage antics are leaving many
fans wondering if he really is OK.

Off-color comments offended
sone concerrgoers at last year’s shows
at the Orpheum with the VSO. An
appearance on the Late Night with
Conan O’Brien talk show had him
flashing the cameras in his kile, Earlier
this monch 3 Halifax paper reported
fans at a weekend concert turned their
backs on the homegrown talent after
he first told the crowd he “doesn’t
give ar *?™ and later added “stick it
up your ass.”

That same « sage and his
manager of five vears parted ways. ARTS REPORTER

When reached on the road
Wednesday, the 23 vear-old fiddler admitted things may have
gotten out of hand of late.

“You know, | have a problem. And (il tell vou what it
is.” said the artist, speaking over the phone trom his Victoria

s sometimes come out of my mouth.
wmetimes | guess they come out in the unappropriate
places.”

Yhat surely has organizers of the Vancouver Symphony's
Grouse Mountain concert Sunday with MacIsaac more than
a little nervous. But the tiddler says VSO brass needn't
WOIrTY.

“Since Pm doing a show with the symphony, there's real-
ly nothing more than the music that should speak that day.
So [ probably won't open my mouth.”

What concertgoers will be treated to is MacIsaac’s virtu-
oso talent and inventive Celtic-pop-rock fusion.

Tickets for the July 26, 4 p.m. concert on Grouse Mountain
are SAS for adults, $32.25 for sentors and youth, and $23.75 for
children seven ta 12 (sie and under are free). Order through
Ticketmaster at 280-3311 or call the symphony hotline. 876-3434.

ASHLEY Maclsaac is taking Celtic
fusion in new directions, blending jigs
and reels with rap and fur!:.

Days between stations

Two new memoirs look back at life on the B.C. coast

& Lighthouse Chronicles (Twenty Years on the B.C. Lights) — mg oband Trevor established his carcer as a lighthouse keeper. In
Flo Anderson, Harbour Publishing 1998, 222 pp, 63 b&w MAME LULD] BYRNE 1966 they settled with their four children on Race Rocks, just
photographs, $18.95 paper. outside Victoria’s harbor, where they stayed until retiring in
1982.

@ Jedediah Days (One Woman’s Island Paradise) — Mary Palmer, Harbour Tw years of hard work left little time to document the goings-on.

Publishing 1998, 224 pp, 100 b&cw photographs, $26.95 cloth. pt a one-liner diary and we wrote things on calendars,” says
Anderson, “but mostly it is indelibly printed on my

John Goodman They shared lighthouse duties with one er two other families. “When we
This Week Editor joined the service in 1961, the department was placing three lightkeepers on
gach station so that they would only have to work cight hours a day, rather
yo new books from first-time authors give us valuable insights into lite on than twelve,” explains Anderson in Chronicles.

the B.C. coast as it has been lived for much of the twentieth century. The plan was to increase the number to four but that never materiali

Flo Anderson’s Lighthouse Chronicles recounts her family’s twwo-decade stint In fact the numbers we reduced to Gwo prior to the current government
on British Columbia’s isolated lights, witile Mary Palmer remembers tke island push to automate lighthouses. ving back into the 1970s they were start-
paradise in the Strait of Georgia she called home for half a century. ing to think about automation. They had uried this new horn, taken down

Both are primarily personal memoirs but they also provide political per- the good old faithful one. We were not told, but we could sce that some-
spectives on the ramitications of choosing their distinctive lifestyles. thing was in the works.”

Anderson's family spent the early part tof the sixties in different locations
(Lennard Island, Barrett Rock, Mcfanis Island and Green Island) as her hus See Purchase page

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