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Page WEEKEND EXTRA Friday October a 1M Playful Possak laughs up theatre Herald Staff Writer Felix thick black beard shook through Irian ballad music The oneman variety how u led by a mm idan porting an ly pliant face Wiggling his bushy eyebrow and beard and laughing Mr looked like a mischievous eU casting a spell over the crowd In the John Elliott Theatre a red seats Ills playful expression and mannerisms charm the audience at the tint snow of the Musical Trilight series presented by the Arts Croud last Wednesday night To make them aud ience laugh a hard sometime Mr Possak admitted Some jokes only work for a Certain type of crowd The first few times open my mouth I m trying to fig tire out what they are going to at Well stocked with humor he confesses to stealing from other per formers Mr prefers entertaining adults over children Adults he said provide a more challenging for him Instead of filling the stage with other music Una or singers the Hon born performer surrounded himself with eight stringed As he went from song to song of his dark bead and try to decide which Instruments to reach out for nest Beginning the evening with a banjo Mr put on his Irish accent and sang a lilting ballad or two He has an accent Hints hard to identify when he speaks between songs Its a mysterious blend of several Europ ean tongues Yet when Mr sings an Irish tune he manages to sound bly Irish He told The Herald that when he first arrived in Canada in 1967 be joined an Irish group In Mont real members of which now belong to the group Ryan a Fancy was there that he honed his Irish pronunciation Later accompanying a Audience participation Isn a problem or music lao Frank Pottak Austrianborn oneman variety show iDlertalned a nearly full house tail Wednesday nigh I at the John Elliott Theatre and had spectators clipping and singing along Playing eight different intlmtnenti during the night he give a how traced history Herald photo Jewish dance ensemble with his guitar Mr picked up Jewish folk songs Teaching the aud ience the silly words he had them clapping and chirping bock Chili bean chili boom chill bam bam Mr called it a good song for bar Mitz vans They put another dill pickle on your plate he laughed Infectiously Picking up his a triangular instrument Mr told the audience lhat It was made by Siberian prisoners and the Cyrillic letters on what appeared to be a label translated Into Get me out of here If you closed your while you were clapping along to the Russian and Jewish tongs you could see a line of hopping Hora dancers skirts swirling It made you want to gather up your long skirts and stamp your feet to the music too Fluent only In German and English Mr Possak said he learned to sing in Russian and Jewish the same way opera singers do phonetically To someone unfamiliar with those languages his Beautiful evenings In Moscow and Katchia sounded pretty convinc ing I Come on softly slowly and Utile by little I die oft completely Stick around he warned his audience at the beginning of his show As they if to say I warned you But his warning was well Judged by the Although he dldh get wilder and louder light ram his first long Mr maintained audience participation and interest throughout the night and didn l off Part of his success on stage Is his entry laugh which makes you want to giggle wildly too and part of it the playful facial expressions and wiggling beard Changing to the Appal dulcimer an Inst rument shaped like a figure eight with only three strings two of which he explained never change pitch Mr sang Iho folksong Old Joe Clark To play a different key the dulci has to be retimed by adjusting wooden pegs at one end he said BARRY 0 TIMLECK CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT announces the opening of a Public Accounting practice effective October at 16 Mountalnvlew Rd S Suite 301 Hatton Hills Georgetown Ontario Spectacles are not all created equal Georgetown Optical Unequalled lot Eyewear Anywhere All lenac guaranteed breakage for one year CYC CALL Georgetown Optical 8773562 COMPLETE OPTICAL SERVICE Georgetown Market Place no oncevut aurirto quality Remarking that It usu ally takes minutes to tune the instrument he looked playfully disap pointed when It only took three minutes that night That cuts out a good portion of my show he said shaking his bead The oldest instrument In his collection Is the harp guitar made In 1900 in Vienna The twin neck Instrument Is one of very few left in playable condition One neck sup ports the guitar string and the other the harp strings Mr in Georgetown came near the end of a tenday tour of Ontario that began in Sioux Look out He said he currently lives In Calgary and be touring Saskatchewan in October and Nova Scot in November Besides performing solo Mr also puts on a Vaudeville show called Felix and His Banjo Palace Band with three other musicians The show was held at Hamilton Place Friday and Saturday nights Calf Club holds Achievement Day By MILLER ltllu44 Call dab Achievement Day Acton Calf Club held Its Achievement Day Sept Band lflatthe Acton Fair with IS members taking part The beef show was held Sept 1 and was judged by Bert Pepper of Wingham Placing In the showman ship class were 1st David Lasby 2nd Gerry Clarke 3rd Lisa Heather Lasby and Andrew Marsh In the steer conforms tion class Lisa was first followed by David Gerry Clarke and Heather In the beef heifer conformation class Andrew Marsh was first Sept the dairy memb ers held their Achieve ment Day show with Roger Dyment of Dundas being the off rial Standings in the showman ship class were 1st Shir Murray 2nd Nancy Stoke 3rd Phil She Fred Shea Ron Me- Niven Mike Stokes John Stansbury and Wayne Cunningham In the Senior Heifer conformation class the placing were 1st Nancy Stokes 2nd Mike Stokes 3rd Shirley Murray th Ron McNiven John Fred Shea Phil Shea In the Junior Hotuutin Heifer cubs Wayne Cunningham was first The club is spon sored by the Acton Agri cultural Society A IMPORT AUTO SERVICE D The Volvo Specialist Y 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