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OTTAWA (CP) — The
Gatineau Parkway is just a
short drive across the

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indusiry tells me Thave to,'"

he sald.
“] still believe the music

castonally feeling self-—
eonscious. in public.
“I feel incredibly. well

Ottawa River.-Its flat, black speaks— for’ “itself. ‘Ifthe supported by~ the «com-

in the city, but for solitude
and songwriting he eacapes
to his-log cabin in .the
Gatineau Hills. He

‘

returning to complete four
years of high school in 18

‘months, After a year of
business administration at a

eft his job as a television
announcer and paid the rent

by working as a solo act in -

clubs.

pavement winds higher and record hits, it hits, and if it munity,butthere aretimes, developed his love for the community college, he quit Rostad says _ his new
higher through a pure-white - doesn't, it doesn’t. But I'm like in shopping centres,; wilderness. as a child and worked as a radio album; which Is “brighter” -
wilderness of. pine, maple not going to give myself. when people approach me — visiting’ northem  Quebec-~ announcer before joining a than the first, will ‘be
and spruce trees. " culeers waiting for the big aad I think it would.be lumber camps, where his country band’as a rhythm released ‘when it's ready.”

The higher Into the
Gatineau Hills, the clearer

the air, the thicker the -

follage and the closer one |
gets to, Wayne ‘Rostad’s
songwriting source: the
‘village of Wakefield anid ita’,
surroundings, a source that
has inspired. this talented
country artist to capture the
people and places.in one of .
“Canada’s most: beautiful
settings.

There's Dollard Mariowe,. _

, the wrinkled portrait of an
elderly man whose log cabin
is a short-hike up the road-
from Rostad's own cabin, 48
kilometres north of the
Parliament Buildings. -

There's Ryan's) BP
Station, a real. service
station where customers

_are friends, and the high °

. price of gasoline is made a.
little more bearable by:
some real service,

These are just two Rostad
compositions from his:
three-year-old first’ album,

break.”

Rostad's attitude is at the
‘same time a boon and a
hinderance. The

expresses in conversation is
‘also'a part of every song!
His personallty, his com-

manding. Slx-foot-four, 200-:

pound presence, is ex-
pressed in his music
throlgh a ragged, rich,
emotional baritone..

But he rejects “the plastic
sales job” and the “music
_dindustry. polities," - and
realizes he may never at-
tain national. prominence
“because. don’t want my
music ‘hyped — I'm not
going to prostitute myself to
get hit records or win
“awards.”

- While acknowledging his
substantial, regional
‘following, the 34-year-old

entertainer admits to oc-

‘which has-sold-more- ‘than a

10,000 copies in the Ottawa
area. He.is, without doubi,
the most popular country:
artist in the capital region,

Last August he had.a ones\ ;
howr special on the CTV/

‘network: and earlier this

series, mow in reruns, for |
the local CTY affiliate. He is
also: host of a program
geared to country living on’
the local CBC-TV station.

Whether the rest of
Canada gets to see more of:
Rostad will depend “upon .

truth to-it? — H.V,
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~'Q. What's this. about
Margaux Hemingway trying,

i \ to suppressa sexy movie she .
. year he taped a :13-week |

made a few years ago at the
beginning of hercareer? Any

movie
Margaux ever made.was a
1976 item called “Lipstick,”
in which | she played a
gorgeous model who takes

‘« justice into her own violent |

_ hands after being sexually

un--
compromising honesty he .

really nice just to be able to

walk in, do your business, —

and walk out.’’
Rostad has an apartment

4619 Park Ave.

‘home = with

Large lot
B3Ix260, Three
bedrooms, fireplace,
Storage shed. Nearly
1300 square feet of
house. Asking only
$39,900. Try your ‘of-
fers-+ .

Starter
potential.

grandparents’ were cooks.

At 16 he left school and
worked at'a variety of jobs
for two years before

guitarist.

' Eleven years ago he
decided to “get serious
about my writing,” so he

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