Wednesday. July 10. 1991 - North Shore News - 23

Folk fest covers the world beat

S YOU read this. World Beat Ctopians are transtor

ming a Vancouver patch of green, where sea meets

sky ata place called fericho, to set the stave tor the
14th Annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival.

This year’s incarnation ot the
musical mecca, July 19, 20, 27 at
lencho Beach Park, promises to
deliver a lot — more than 200 per-
farmers drawn from over 20 Coun:
Iries are set to bring ahve six
dayume stages and three evening
concerts,

And if past experience holds
true, music adventurers will make
some rare finds.

New tor the first time to the tes
tival are groups from Thailand
(Booniom Dhammaviset and
Tongsuk Minmoha, Caravan) and
Crechoslovakia (Iva Bittova with
Pavel Fajt, Viadimir Merta and
Jablkon).

As orchestrated by festival head
Gary Cristall the reach and scape
of performances planned is im-
pressively broad. Where else
could one find blues musicians, a
ieminist musical comedy trio, a
singer of traditional Transylvanian
songs. a band that fuses Haitian
religious music with carnival
songs, an all-woman old timey str-
ing band and a native Indian bund
sharing the weekend with a host of
other acts too numerous to men-
tion.

Music Now recently caught up
with Cristall at the Vancouver Folk
Music Festival Main Street office.
Music Now: At least one
weekend a year people who
attend the festival can count
on sharing some good feelings,

a sense of the way things

Racism kept
understated

From page 24

mirror checks very convincingly.

Doris Chillcott as Miss Daisy
brought both tenderness and
tautness to the role. Because her
characterization came from the
inside out, she was convincing as
an old woman, never reducing the
part to decrepit posturing. The
later scenes of aging were very
touching (my theatre partner stifl-
ed a few snuffies) as was the mo-
ment when she told Hoke he was
her “best friend.”

Alvin Sanders brings a humble
dignity to Hoke Coleburn without
caricaturing and achieves a deli-
cate balance between keeping his
character’s integrity and showing
his good-natured sense of humor.

And Allan Gray as Daisy's son
Boolie slips in gracefully as the
go-between for his mother and
Hoke.

Under Bill Millerd’s direction the
action never reverts to rank sen-
timentalism; it achieves a teetotall-
ing quaintness with the theme of
racial prejudice as understated as
a sprig of mint in a pitcher of iced
tea.

WV painter’s
exhibit opens

RECENT WORKS by West) Van-
Couser painter Rath Massey
opened fast night at the Ferry
Building an oan exhib entited
{Monds and Ontons.

A student oon Jack | Shadbolt
Massey produces sort, chy this
scene depictions, bahinced by
pamterly Cxpressions ot brihiantts
Colored trait and anions. working
ous an Canvas,

Wands and Onions continges to

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RECORD REVIEW

might be better in the world.

is that something that you try

to work at when you put
together the festival or does it
just happen once it all comes
together?

Cristall: “People talk about ita
lot. bask people sometimes what
they like about the festival and
they say, ‘the feel’ Ethink it
comes from several things. For one
thing the peaple who produce the
festival are all, to one degree or
another, utopians. We'd love to
do this for the world or a country,

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but wedon taettie chances We
spend adotot time tama to make
the testralas camtorctuble aod as
wood as possbie tor the peanle
who go there Also a tototthe
people who perforin there are
commited to using them must to
talk about real things, to change
things not pearhy as many fam
pant, sel-centered eLomanmac al
aspirin rock stars as you would
tind ata lotot other places and t
think that comes across tog. Peo-
pie aren't playing this musu
because they think is game te.
make them rich, Theyre playing it
because itis ther hives and they
beheve init, Also the tact that wo
have no hquor, the fact that there
are nota burch of drunks, makes
areal difference. bthink t's 4
combination of all those factor.”
Music Now: Can festival geers
expect to see any major on-site
or policy changes this year?
Cristal: “No. The big thing we
did last year was the environmen-
tal program (re-usable plastic ver-
sus disposable plates tram festival
food outlets) and we're doing that
again. Jtworked tar better than we
had any right to expect, consider:
ing we dida‘t know what we were
doing. We bought these 6.000
plates, turned out it was enough.

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MEANAVHILE... Music “91 packs a
musical wallop in Whistler this
weekend July 12,23 and 14,

Day-long iamily fun leads up to
headline acts pectorming outside
the Rendezvous Restaurant atop

Blackcomb Mountain. Phe bie
names this Friday are Smokey
Robinson and Natalie Cole.
Saturday sees Linda Ronstadt vo-
ing Steaxrcan, And on Sunday its
Bos Scaups

The weekend wili sec Spirit of
the West, Tom Northcott. Last
Wild Sons. Tom Keenlyside
Quintet, The Hitmen and fim
Byrnes among the many on tap to
make the roadshow happen

Children are centre stage at the
KidsOuwn area which will feature
hands-on musical participation
and something called the
Drumasaurus.

Up ta two children age six and
under attend for free with one
adult holding a ticket. Tickets are
available at TicketMaster outlets,
participating Mohawk pas stations
or by calling 286-4444,

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