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VALDEMAR Horsdal is a name synonymous with

the crunch of granola and the gentle hum of folk

music.
Better known as Valdy,

the soft-spoken Saltspring
Islander has been successful-
ly plying his brand of coun-
try, folk and pop since he
wandered onto the local
music scene in 1972 with the

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tastes. As a result, Valdy has
been forever associated with
the rustic sensibilities of
flower power and folk.

In many of the more ex-

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neither loud enough nor out-

CHOOSING THE North Shore as the Jocation to wrap up his Western Canada tour, singer Valdy will be at the Centennial

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landish enough. Valdy
would, they predicted,
disappear soon enough into
the country bracken and
quietly go to seed with his
rural philosophies.

But the 40-year-old
singer-songwriter has surviv-
ed. More than that, he has
fathered an audience as

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broad as his music; he has
produced four gold records
and collected two Juno
Awards; he has earned a
permanent place in the upper
echelons of Canadian music.

“’m a student of pop
music,’’ Vaidy says, ‘‘and
because I takc my musical
styles from a lot of different
areas, I find | now appeal to
the full demographic au-
dience. I’ve had years of
success followed with years
of hard work followed with
more years of success. For
me this business has been a
series of waves, better that, I
think, than one big peak and
one big decline.”*

Describing his latest
album, Notes From Places,
which was released in’ the
summer and is making
gradual ascent of slippery
Canadian musical charts,
Valdy says it is an excursion
into both country and rock
with a dash of softer jazz in-
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Valdy’s current tour
behind that album has taken
the West Coast troubadour,
with his slimmed down band
of Connie Lebeu, bass and
accordion, aud Norman
MacPhersca, guitar, across
the Canadian prairies and
back through B.C. What

once took a bus and five-ton

diesel truck to transport has,
according to Valdy, been
reduced through technologi-
cal advances and microchip
minimalism to three musi-
cians in a maxi-van.

The tour will wind up on
Sunday at North Van-
couver’s Centennial Theatre
with Valdy and company
Sharing the stage with
Silverlode, North Van-
couver’s best known acoustic
duo of Ken Kirschner and
Geoff Gibbons.

Keith Bennett will open
the acoustic folk and coun-
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