Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 2 May 1979, p. 17

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Entertainment notes Eric and Raffi in Owen Sound By STEPHEN GALER Of The Examiner Summer is folk festival time across the country chance to enjoy good times and good music in the relaxed at mosphere of an outdoor setting Canadas best known festivals are the Mariposa Folk Festival held on Toronto Island and the Winnipeg Folk Festival But for Barrie folk fans theres one festival much closer to home the Owen ffi Sound Summerfolk Festival to be held Aug 17 18 and 19 at Kelso Beach Park on the shores of Georgian Bay The Georgian Bay Folk Society organizers of the festival have just released the name of the performers appearing at this years festival Close to 50 performers will appear at the threeday festival Betterknown performers include Eric Anderson Luke Gibson Willie Bennett Ralfi Ryans Fancy and David Essig Also scheduled to appear is Tony Bird an African singersongwriter whose recent Bird of Paradise album was such critical success in North America Most of the other performers are something of mystery ls there really band called the Honalulu Ileartbrcakers Or the Empire Stove and Furnace Company Dixieland Jazz Band the Forest City Morris Men Tickets prices for the folk festival remain unchanged from last year Advance weekend passes are $12 Passes for Saturday or Sunday are $7 and tickets for the opening con cert on Friday night are $4 Kids under 12 are admitted free to the festival if accompanied by an adult You can get tickets and further festival information by writing Owen Sound Summerfolk Festival Box 521 Owen Sound Ontario N4K BR Short takes Ive only seen couple scenes from the Littles Hill Players production of Present Laughter but it looks as though the Noel Coward play is going to be strong final production of the season for the amateur theatre group Ben Strudwick and Connie Ilodgcs returning to the Players after twoyear break play the leading roles in the British comedy The play opens Thursday night at pm at Georgian College Theatre and continue Friday and Satur day night Reserved seats are $4 Concerts coming up this weekend The Cooper Brothers appear at the Lions Hall in Angus on Saturday night Tickets are $4 and are available at Samsthe Huronia Symphony presents its final conCert of the season Sunday at 15 pm at Georgian College Theatre The Ontario raft Councils Central Region Annual Juried Craft Exhibition starts at Georgian College May 7running with the exhibiton will be Expressions Show by 3rd year design arts students of the collegethe Huronia Youth Or chestra travelled to Toronto on the weekend to perform at Old Fort York with the Montague Strings The group will perform May 26 at Georgian College Theatre Bassoonist featured Editor Stephen Gauer By STEPHEN GAIEB Of The Examiner The Barrie Art Club has ap proved decision that sets the stage for the establishment of Barries first public art gallery Votes are still being counted on the question of club in corporation which will enable the club to buy real estate and apply for govern ment grants but as of Tues Design students display work The annual ThirdYear Stu dent Show presented by students of the Georgian Col lege Creative and Material Arts programs will be held at Georgian College from May to 16 The best of the students Works in weaving stained glass ceramics sculptures prints paintings blown glass and drawings will be displayed for public viewing The show entitled Expres sions will be opened by Georgian College President Wayne Busch on Sunday at pm At the same time Busch will open the Ontario Craft Councils OCCI Central Region Annual Juried Craft Ex hibition which will be held at Georgian College in conjunc tion with the student show draw for queenltsize ivory coloured quilt designed and sewn by the Design Arts students as scholarship fund raising project will be made during the opening ceremonies Pat Hart design arts pro said the gram coordinator artist at final symphony oncert Elizabeth Brickenden 28 yearold bassoon player from Toronto will be the guest artist at the IIuronia Symphonys spr ing concert to be held Sunday at Georgian College Theatre Miss Brickenden will per form Mozarts Concerto for Bassoon Other works to be played at the concert include The Magic Flute Overture by Mozart Suite in Flat by Gustav Holst Dialogue for Or chestra by Ken Sollory and La ment by Peter Davies Sollorys Dialogue for Or chestra was the secondplace winner in the composers com petition sponsored by the womens committee of the sym phony last December The Davies composition was the thirdplace winner Miss Brickenden has played with the anadian Opera Com pany orchesttra the Thunder Bay Symphony the St Catherines Symphony the Montreal Symphony the University of Toronto sym phony orchestra as well as com munity orchestras in East York North York and hlississauga Shes currently playing in the OC production of Carmen in loronto Sundays concert is the third and final one of the 197879 season for the Huronia Synr phony Tickets are $5 for adults and $250 for students and they will be sold at the door The concert begins at 15 pm WWW WWWWWW Elizabeth Brickenden will be the guest artist of Sundays Huronla Symphony spring concert The symphony has released the dates and names of guest performers for the three con certs scheduled for the 197980 season On Nov 18 pianist Des mond Maley and violinist Donald Bead will appear with the symphony at Georgian Col lege Theatre On March 1980 the sym phony will perform with the King Edward Choir at Central Woodys at the Holiday Inn Barrie Hwy 400 on Fairview Rd Telephone 7286191 Entrance and ample parking at the rear of building Collegiate The final concert of the season on May 11 will feature Dianne Loeb soprano from Ottawa at Georgian Col lege Theatre Coming up May 26 at Georgian College Theatre is the annnual concert by the Huronia Youth Orchestra Tickets for the concert are $150 and will be available at the door The con cert begins at pm NOW APPEARING THRU MAY 12 MARTY DIANE The combined talent of Marty Cakes and Diane Hodson has resulted in an incredibly versatile style of music they can call their own By mixing showband techniqu of ballads and sophisticated disco num road hits Marty and Diane will keep you entertained all evening Be sure to see Marty Diane COMING MAY 14 DOUG DAY es with the soft romance 55 bers with middle of the 345 gl AAA day morning majority of the 88 club members eligible to vote had approved incorpora tion Gordon Whitehead president of the club said Tuesday that all the votes cast to date have approved the motion The next step in the clubs plan to convert house in the downtown area into gallery is series of meetings to in faculty and students felt the most logical way to present the students works was through show That is how their crafts are shown professionally and it was felt the event would serve as learning experience as well The show will be arranged and displayed entirely by the students thereby teaching them the mechanics of setting upa show she said as tertainment 4266537 vestigate grant money and the mechanics of establishing gallery Whitehead meets this week with Rory ODonal executive director of the Associaton of Art Galleries of Ontario to discuss the proposed gallery Next week he will meet with representative from the On tario Arts Council OAC to discuss grant for the gallery Those students taking part in the show are Doug Allen Sue Mace and Rose Mitchell of Bar rie Melanie Collum Kit chener Laurie Crew and Renia Bialecki Oshawa Vladimir Ruzylo Welland Ken Loverock and Mary Bon North Bay Karen Pollard Colllt ingwood Lorraine Flegg Smith Falls Michael Chaditis Peterborough Jane Lennerton Alliston and Joan Roach of Orillia Art club vote sets stage for first public gallery Whitehead will also be seek ing guidance from Visual Arts Ontario and from several com munity galleries including the gallery in Peterborough GO AHEAD Depending on these meetings said Whitehead we want to go ahead as fast as we can Its exciting Barrie could really use something like this gallery public gallery has been the goal of the art club for many ears The proposed gallery would include space for the clubs permanent art collec tion shows by local artists travelling shows from other galleries as well as space for workshops and music concerts The incorporation of the club will enable it to apply for Win tario grant matching the $1700C raised during the past 30 years for expanding the permanent collection Grant money from the OAC if approved could help buy house suitable for conver sion into gallery Battered NBC shows will return next year LOS ANGELES AP surprising lineup comprised mostly of television programs that were battered in the rat ings last season will make up NBCTVs fall schedule NBC announced Monday This new schedule repre sents the next phase in NBC TVs carefully structured plan of steady improvement said Mike Weinblatt president of NBC Entertainment Our first priority was to build strong nous Pumas Show 79I0pin TIMES TIIE EIIN TIE OIIVEIN now EN WINNER OF INCLUDING IEST ACTOI JON VOIGIIT Jemme Hellman lal Ashby Jm FEMa THAI IAIIIIIE DRIVEIN 48722T2 ACADEMY AWARDS IIST ACTIISS JANE FONDA JaAEZL 6mg DeviL man who believed in war man who believed in nothing And woman who believed in both ofthem programming base and we have now done that One show that will not be back is Supertrain the costly extravaganza that derailed on its first episode and never got on track Sixteen hours of return pro gramming is in the new sched ule even though most of the shows rated poorly the first time around Six new shows made the fall lineup although dozens of pilots were screened ORilIiA THEATRES ENEVA loWEST st 3266331 7143 EDWfAfiM BARRIE DRIVEIN SCREEN HALLOWEEN AND FAIRY TALES What we have here is total lack of respect for the law HOLDING FOR 6th BIG WEEK one MOI now Just more Burt Reynolds Smokeymm fimdit lly Field Jerry Reedeackie GI mountma no IITTIIIIIIII Of the returning shows five were introduced as midseason replacements this year They are Diffrent Strokes Hello Larry BJ and The Bear Kate Columbo formerly called Mrs Columbo and Real People the oxamInor Wednesday May 1979 11 Theyll be tour guides Actor Peter Ustinov and actress Natalie Wood recently make their way to Leningrads Hermitage Museum They were taking part in the filming of the first documentary movie to be made for Western television inside the museum where they act as guides for the television audience Miss Wood was born Natasha Gurdin of parents who were themselves born in Russia AP Photo ADMISSION IS FREE WASHINGTON AP While many museums are raising admissions or cur tailing hours the Corcoran Gallery recently announced that it will begin free admission policy Officials said the move was made possible after private foundation donated $115 million to the gal lery PIZZERIA 147 DunIop St Barrie ALL YOU CANEAT DRINKS EXCLUDED 89 Dom9 Dm per couple Wednesday Thursday Sunday Only One Coupon per couple for Dining Room Only Expiros 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