R.E.M, LEE THEATRE

The. Terrace and District

Arts Council is presentin
_ Sylvia Tyson “‘in concert

on Saturday, February 5 at

the R.E.M. Lee Theatre

beginning at 8:15 p.m.

She is reputed to be a
tough interview, which is
understandable considering
that the stories surrounding
the myth are endless,. traded
by the media like old
snapshots until they blur.
She is aware that the
heavily publicized events of
her personal life exert an
. effect on her audience. So
she doesn’t lose her cool,
doesn’t. back away, just
stands there and parries
loaded questions with
considerable skill.’ She is
Sylvia Tyson.

Life began for Sylvia
Fricker in Chatham, On-
tario, a small farming
centre, Sylvia taught
Sunday school, sang in the
chureh choir and studied
piano at home with her
mother. In the everings,
she’d listen to a Detroit
rhythm and blues station
which played such artists as
. Fats Domino, The Coasters,
Little Richard, Chuck Berry
and Jerry Lee Lewis.

“IT wanted to be a
folksinger from the time I
was 15,” she admits. “I
decided I'd finish high
school — if that’s what
everybody wanted — and
then I’d go and do my own

could make any money as a
full-time folksinger. It's just
that’s what I wanted to do.”’

Her first instrument was a
mail ‘order red-and-white
silk-screen guitar with a
cowboy lassooing a cow.
She'd tune to a chord, use a
bar and figure out the ap-
propriate chord changes.
She wasn’t even interested

in becoming technically -

proficient; she only wanted
accompaniment. She
learned English ballads and
American folksongs by.
borrowing books from the
library. ~

Sylvia began singing at
church and hospital func-
tions and eventually saved
enough money to move to
Toronto, where she met Jan
Tyson. They first worked
together while doing
alternate sets at the Village
Corner Club. Eventually he
provided Buitar backup for

er on a regular basis. She
also worked solo at the
Bohemian Embassy,
squeezed between readings

‘from local poets.

Tan and Sylvia formed
officially as a part-time duo
in the fall of 1959. Two years
later they went full-time.
Ian recalls his initial im-
pressions of his partner
were: “She was very
standoffish. She was very
unique and I didn’t know
what to make of her. Nobody

AT THE R.E.M. LEE THEATRE

did. She was a loner, an
original, very introspective,
very shy, very small-town.
But you could see she wasn’t
going to be small-town very
ong.”

No sir, Small-town she
was not to be. For Sylvia’s
career climbed from
Toronto's. Yorkville Village
to the international success
enjoyed by Ian and Sylvia,
through: the . natural
evolution to solo artist. She
grew from one small town in
Ontario to all of Canada; in
the last ‘three years having
hosted “Touch the Earth”, a
weekly national CBC radio

program reaching hundreds |

of thousands of people.

In 1975, Sylvia recorded
her first solo album,
‘*‘Woman’s World’’,
produced by Ian and en-
tirely self-penned, The
album was released by
Capitol Records-EMI in
Canada, the United States
and Great Britain, Reac-
tions were excellent. One
magazine stated, “Woman's
World is not only one of the
best albums of the year, but
the best album ever
released by a female
Canadian vocalist”.

Sylvia has been a busy
lady since the release of the
album, In June 1976, she
joined Gordon Lightfoot,

urray McLauchlin and
Liona Boyd in a_ special
benefit concert which raised

_ Homer James in concert

A group of Terrace
churches have organized to
bring the Billy Graham

- Evangelistic Association’s
Homer James in Concert to
the R.E.M, Lee Theatre on

. Thursday, January 27
beginning at 7:30 p.m. All
seats are free and everyone
is welcome.

Homer James will be
accompanied ‘by John Innes
at the piano and organ. The
host of the show is Lowell
Jackson. They are members
of the Agape Show s¢en
weekly on CFTK-TV. It is
Canada’s Coast-to-coast
Television Outreach
described. by the Billy
Graham team as follows:

A PERSONAL WORD

Canada is quickly
becoming a strategic nation
in the world’s urgent search
for direction during these
crisis days. Canada’s global
influence in the next few
years will be unprecedented

-in its history, as other
countries increasingly turn
to Canada for leadership in
confronting the energy,

‘food, monetary and peace

-- problems.

The Billy Graham Team
believes reaching Canada

now for Jesus Christ is.

crucial to world
evangelization.

‘For. several years, we

have had a definite burden”

for Canada, especially
through the Canadian
members of our team:
George ‘Beverly Shea,
Leighton Ford, John Wesley
White, Tedd Smith and
Homer James.
Now. a door is open to the
~ Gospel as never before in
Canadian history.

Ina specific step of faith, ©
we have begun a weekly, -
-coast-to-coast program —

AGAPE. “Agape” is the
Greek word which means
the amazing expression of
God's love in Jesus Christ.

AGAPE is unique in its
presentation but iaithful to
the Gosepl. It is produced in
Canada, for Canada, b

Canadians, and wit
Canadians.

We are pleased that two
long-time Canadian

members of our team will
anchor the program each
week -— George Beverly
Shea and John Wesley
White. These two Canadians
have ministered with Mr.
Graham around the world.
Also. participating on
AGAPE is a fine Christian
psychiatrist Each week a
ifferent theme ... loneliness
., alienation .. guilt ...
eternal life .., etc., will be
presented in light of God’s
Love in Jesus Christ.

The future of AGAPE is
up to Canadians. -

In most of English-
speaking Canada, AGAPE
is on at a crucial time —
right after the Sunday af-
ternoon sporting event. We
have tried to produce a
quality program and, more
importantly, 4 fruitful
expression of God's Love in
Jesus Christ. This costly
project is a step of faith.

We are asking you to do.

three things to help reach

_ Canada for Christ:

First, pray boldly that
God will use AGAPE in ‘an
unprecedented way to touch

‘millions of Canadians.

Second, use the AGAPE

telecast as your expression

of God's Love — invite your
friends to your home to view
it with you.

Third, begin your monthly
financial ,. support of
AGAPE. We must know that
our Canadian friends will
support it. 7

AGAPE is a venture of
faith. Its future greatly
depends on your support.
We will not go into debt. We
need your help with the
immediate costs of
production and television
time. :

If you cannot contribute

financially,. let us know: of -

your .“prayer-vote” today.
This will encourage us for
the decisions ahead.

Courthouse Squares

WITH SAYING, ._,
“1 FOLD YOU SO. *

In 1836 there was a surplus
in tha United States Treasury
. of over $28 million!

ENTERTAINMENT, THE HERALD, Wed. Jan. 19, 1977, 7

Sylvia Tyson in concert

‘things, I didn’t know if you

close to
and was televised nationally
in Canada. In 1975, she was-
featured on a CBC hour-lon
television special entitle
‘Three omen’’
classical contralto Maureen
Forrester and Quehbecoise
singer Pauline Julien, The
show was so widely ac-
claimed that it will -be
repeated in the late fall of
1976. Also in 1975, Sylvia

appeared with John Denver :

in concert and was the guest
entertainer at a $50-a-plate
National Ballet champagne
dinner. Besides’ all this
activity she has been per-
forming at outdoor festivals
and participating in
workshops and: concerts
throughout Canada.

The fall of 1976 found
Sylvia with her second
Capitol-EMI album, ‘‘Cool
Wind from the North”, ‘of
which seven of the tracks
are Sylvia’s own. The album
was recorded at Thunder
Sound in Toronto and was
again produced by Ian.

Onstage now, Sylvia is
joined by the four musicians
she banded together
originally for the Olympic
concert. Adding rhythm

$200,000 for
Canada’s Olympic athletes,

with |

guitar herself to the music,

"Sylvia and her band take to

the road to perform

selective club and concert

dates in support of the new
album.

The evolution seems to
have. come to its ultimate’
conclusion now. The public
has stopped associating
Sylvia with the narrowly.
circumscribed folk idiom
which she explored with
such brilliance in the sxities.
Nor is she chained to the
experimental country music
so aptly transmitted by Ian
and herself. Her songs have
been erformed and
recorde in several
languages by other artists
including Nana Mouskouri,
Kitty Wells and The We Five
(You were on my, Mind”).
She's been “rediscovered”
as having the integrity of an
artist, an artist who happens
to be intelligent and capable
of beautiful things...”

Sylvia has been in music
for a long time, but music
has been in Syivia even
longer. Listen for yourself.
Listen with understanding
and with intelligence. Listen
hard to Sylvia Tyson. Her
music will get inside you, ©

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