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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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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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