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p 10 the tritfue thurdat jtfly i6l997 st the tribune arts entertainment singers checkered past was the inspiration for human condition kate gilderoale correspondent country music fans are in for a rare treat on july 1 9 when jamie warren ken munshaw and marty damsell take to the stage at the stoufrville recreation centre for a benefit concert in support of markham stouffville hospital the event is sponsored by sammys bar and grill and organized by stoufrville res ident jody infurnari in collaboration with restaurant owner sam valenzano it starts around noon and goes until 8 oclock said valenzano the original idea was to have a big party but we thought if we were going to have this many people here we may as well do something for the community so we turned it into a fundraiser and were asking people who come to donate at least 2 for the hospital singersongwriter ken munshaw draws on his life experiences as inspiration for his duke street album the human con dition recorded in 199495 the toronto native took piano lessons with his father from the age of four and began composing when he was 14 after a checkered youth during which he borrowed various cars only to return them after his nightly cruise with the gas tank thoughtfully refilled he spent some time as a guest of one of canadas correctional institutions incarceration didnt suit him so he took off on a freight train for the prairies where he stayed with relatives until he was 16 at which time he decided to come home and face the music he was sent to a mennonite farm in kitchener to build barns and houses and when his stint was finished he decided to stay in the community and concentrate on music he got his first big break with ode to terry better known as the terry fox song which received extensive airplay all 10 songs on the human condition were written by munshaw its a collec tion of observations and conditions that i have encountered during the course of my life up until this point he said some of the songs such as sun comes up and cold cold night are very personal oth ers are about people and circumstances i have experienced from a distance jamie warren has also been writing and singing since he was 14 in 1983 he released the first of seven singles on his own label all of which made the charts with take me home mississippi war ren hit the top 10 and he and his band toured canada from coast to coast the band was ahead of its time he said we were five longrhaired guys with leather pants doing all the coolest rocki est country runes crowds loved us unfortunately club owners thought we were either too country for rock rooms or too rock for country rooms i like to say i was new country when new country was nt cool after disbanding the group in 1990 he returned to his acoustic roots performing at clubs cross the country reflections in his new work the human condition ken munshaw borrows heavily from his life experiences his 1995 recording fallen angel caught the ear of river north and he found himself signed with a major label ready to run hit the 1 1th spot on the canadian charts while one step back climbed to 7th place and was in the top 10 for six weeks another of his compo sitions the secret a mer- curypolydor release deals with domestic abuse the song inspired him to estab lish the warren foundation with cissfms dan williamson to raise funds for victims of domestic violence men in black explodes with big laughs and alien ooze screen scene stuart green theyre hip theyre cool and theyre dressed to kill alien miscreants that is they are the men in black and their comic bookinspired antics explode onto the big screen in a shower of big laughs and alien ooze considered by many to be one of if not the most highly anticipated films of the summer men in black seems destined to be the seasons first bonefide hit and deservedly so tommy lee jones and will smith star as two mysterious men known only as k and j they are part of an elite top secret organi- deadly aim will smith and 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