8, ENTERTAINMENT, THE HERALD, Wed. Mar. 23, 1977

Caledonia Band brings all. star Big Band to Terrace

The Band from Caledonia
Senior Secondary School in
Terrace, is happy to an-
nounce that arrangements
have been made to bring the
‘Bobby Hales’ Big Band to
the R.E.M. Lee Theatre on
Wednesday, April 20 at 8
p.m. Tickets to hear this
truly freat 20 piece band
willsell for $5 a seat. The 214
hour concert will range in

music from the early Big_

Band era to contemporary
works of today.

This concert is brought to
us with the assistance of the
touring office of the Canada
Council and is presented in
conjunction with the ‘band’
portion of the Pacifie North-
west Music Festival. A one
hour clinic, sponsored by the
Pacific Northwest Music
Festival, will be presented
by the band for all available

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band students. The time of
the clinic is 3 p.m.

The Bobby Hales Big
Band, one of Canada’s most
exciting and dynamic jazz
ensembles, proudly an-
nounces that, with the
assistance of the Touring
Office of the Canada
Council, it will make its first
ever tour. The 20 piece band,
formed in 1965, is made up of
Vancouver's finest jazz and
studio musicians and is
featured frequently: on the
CBC program, “Jazz Radio
Cana n

The tour marks the first
time that this large group of
premier players will take
time out from their busy
schedules to present their
music — in person — to the
people outside the lower
mainiand area. It is also the
first time that the Canada
Council has supported west
coast jazz musicians. The

Council's Touring Office.

issues only a few major
grants each year and has
allocated one of them to this

nd.

The trip will include
Vaneouver Island, northern,
central and eastern B.C, as
well as major cities in
Alberta, Saskatchewan and
Manitoba and will take
place during the last two
weeks of Aoril.

The concerts will include
original compositions by
Bobby Hales, favourites
from the Big Band era, and
arrangements of standards
old and new. As a speci
educational feature, the
band will present several
clinic-workshops to high
school and college music
Students throughout the

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“The Goodbye Girl"

Patricia Pearcy, formerly
a member of the prestigious
Long Wharf Theater
Company in Connecticut,
has been set to Play an
aspiring actress in Neil
Simon's “The Goodbye
Girl’’. The romantic comedy
stars Richard Dreyfuss and
Marsha Mason and in-
troduces Quinn Cummings.
Ray Stark produces and
Herbert Ross directs from

Simon’s original screen-

play. _
Ms. Pearcy appeared on
Broadway in “Solitaire-

Double Solitaire’, per-
formed at the Edinburgh
Festival and did a guest-
Starring role in TV's
“Starsky and Hutch”.

‘Ms. Pearcy recently
moved her audience from
New York to Hollywood. .

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