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]PAGE 10, WHBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SE1PFEMBER 26,1990 Folk musie sparks fration of club Six local residents are going te add a spark to the music scene ini Durham Region. The Vital Spark Folk Society, which includes local entertainers Bobby Watt and Blain Fulbrook, will stage evening performances with a focus on music, comedy and fun. International and local celebri- ties will be scheduied te perform once a month until Christmnas after which there will be musical evenings twice monthly, ail at the Masonic Hall, 91 Centre St. S. Oshawa. kerformýances will kick off with Scottish entertainer Bill Barclaxy, who bas a reputation for leavintr By Heathor Dewey A local women's chorus group that combines barbershop-style music with jazzy showmanship bas begun performing in and around Durhamu Region. JBastside Harmony is a pro- spective chorus of Harmony International, formerly Sweet Adelines Inc-. which was formed in 1954 and has 32,000 members worldwide. «They decided they wanted te update the image of the old FOUNDERS of the Vital S ark Folk and (back, from Ieft) Ji FeU, Robby Society are (front, from left) Isabeile Watt and Blan Fulbrook. FeR, Alison Watt and Sandra Warriner, hi. audienoei in stitches. He will be at the Masonic Hall on Satur- da.Sp.29, 8 p.m. Scet. are availal>le at the door or at Hits, 1050 Simcoe St. N., Oshawa (435 -0363). "If we weren't in the business we couldn't get the to p acta were getting,» says Bobby Watt. Board members of the club are Bobby and Alison Watt, Jim and I.j=1le Fell, Fulbrook and San- dra Warriner. Bobby and Alison Watt are Brooklin residents, originally from the Isle of Arran ini Scot- land. Bobby is the lead singer in the band, Cromdale. orgaization,' says CatyPr trdg, astside public relations officer, abut te naine change: The 35-membe chorus, which rehegarsest on Thursday evenings at the Pickering Seniors' Activity Centre, includes both former Sweet Adelines and new singer. from Durham Region. Directer of the group i. Lesleýy Lepine of Aa.Group president is Jane Yong of Pîckéring. «We can sing any type of music, as long as itfs arranged in barbershop, style," says Par- tridge, a Sweet Adelines singer for nine years in Scarborough. "Most members are between 30 and 50 years old, some a littie older, some a littie younger,» tÈe horu wasorganized in February and has sinoe been rehearsing for area performances which began Sept. 14,- and a comretition in Syracuse, N.Y. in In the competition, including 30 other choruses fron Ontario and New York state - which make up the Lake Ontario region of Harmony - each chorus per- forms two songs, one slow and one fast, in front ofjudges. The six best groups receive either a medal or ribbon, and Partridge says Eastside ar- mony could be among the best. Anyone wanting to join the chorus or wanting more informa- tion can cail Partridge at 434- 1726 or Jackie Brown at 686- 2767. Art exhibit at library An exhibition of art works by Deborah Bateman and David Michael Jack will be held at the Whitby Public Library froin Oct. 1 te24. An opening reception will be held Oct. 10, 7 te, 9 pan. Fulbrook in the talented acoustic man for the Celtic music group Brean Derg Muc who have been travelling ail over Ontario this year. »Warriner, Fullbrook's better half handies the organization and> publicity for the club. Isa- belle Feil is designing the club's siign an!d handling promotion and advertisingt. Jim and Isablle Feli started Soccer City in Whitby. Bobby Watt and Jim Fell co-founded the folk club. The club's naine, Vital Spark, is the naine of the character Who commands the small, steain- p owered, coastal tramp vessel in Te Para Handy Tales' series, of books written-in 1930. Those joining the folk« club will receive discounts on a11 records, tapes and. other items. at thé door. Memberships are, available on the night of performances.For -more information, call 434-1714. Lsing, control is a horrifying,, thought 'As a dancer, controlling M body lias been My«ife'swork. Myfriend, Mary, is slowly Iosing control of ier body. She lias Huntington's, a hereditary brain disorder which causes graduai mental and physical deterioration .> I can't imagine living with such a cruel and fatal disease. You can lielp Mary and others who suifer from Huntington s. Please support the Huntington Society tod42y. Help find a cure for Huntington's disease." 4&-1il Gizella Witkowsky, Principal Dancer National Ballet of Canada tHuntington Society of Canada 13 Water Street North, Box 333, Cambridge, Ontario NIR 5T8 Charitable Rcgistraflon Number 0464040-11-L5 Incarne tax rcceipts wiIi bc issued. Metro preferred in FM a-pplicaqtion B y Trudie Zavadovics because the CRTC thought the Marshall. says there were no CRTC officiais chose Metro frequency would be put to best holes in the application but the Toronto over Durham Region to use- serving the 4.5 million timning might have been off. receive the FM frequency located people ini the Toronto area rather Althouh he feels'strongly -that at 92.3 on the radio <iai. than the 350 000 in the region. the region would benefit from an Robert Marshall, one. of a «Ten people appliedanai wan- alternative FM radio station, the ~ tete e ov i,.tiinewas notrigtfor"the tinues -te grow, the need -May quencyte, Rawico Communica- become more e vident. tions Lt., of Calaryfor a coun- Investers are looking .at mak- trY FM stati on in Tor-onto. ing another proposai for an aduit "Althougzh he was initially dis- contempoiéary station but Mar- appinted Marsh al naintains a shall says they have te decide positv attitude. whether it's worth pursuing 'ify ou look at these'things as flTO~7~W8S~UTftfG ?~ .* .~ ~ jw~waw- ~ Women' s barbershop chorus performling BILL BARCLAY