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by Brian Gregg
Laurie Thain, the 24-

. year-old country and

western singer from
Terrace, hasbeen placed
‘among the ' top’ four
winners in the duMauier

“My aa Geen

* totally changed since I

heard on January 15 [
was placed among the top

/ 18 geml-finallsts,” she

for Stara show was like'a
-door opening into a world:

“Tf 1 had planned a
public debut I could not
have done it any better
than they did it,’’ she

alte morning after she

arrived in Toronto. she .

was locking fot costumes
to’ wear on the Heed
during &  Wwaradro
meeting. Finally an outfit
once worn by Carol Baker:
was selected.

In the afternoon she
attended a meeting with
Ray McConnell, producer
and Bob McMullin;
musical director in the
rehersal studio, |

“They went through the ;
’ -songs that I bad sent

.them.. Bob had the

’ afrangements done‘ and
‘Teady for orchestra,” she .

it “was during this
session that Thain got her.
big surprise. The first
song she had ever

written, aHE MAN WE

inspired by a
fellow’ Laurie had met,
had really appealed to

' MeMoliin and he wanted

‘her to do it on the show.
“We talked about it and

- ‘he sald my-second song
- would be harder...writing

for -me isa slow
provess...1 expect to

. continue as a writer but I

mill not be prolific,” bhe
“The biggest day came

on May 23 when Thain

went into the studio to la
down the soundtrack wi
A 22-piece orchestra.

'T was really surprised
when they asked me for
opinion of the

fement and. were
“me and doing
exactly. what I wanted. I
expected that they would
be telling me what to do,”
she says.

The impressive list of
ed Moe
Bickert,

Kaufman, Ed

. Peter Appleyard and
Jack Zaza,

When MeMullin pulled
out the score to THE
MAN WE LOVE ‘com-

‘plete with strings and the
‘orchestra followed with
scores of its own,- Thain
received another sur-
prise.

"To hear . the whole
ropm come alive with the
song I'd written--the
feeling I wanted was

captured-was too-exciting ©

it-was almost more than I

could handle,” she says. -

“E feel like somebody is
Toes on the gas while |

@ song done over’ cg
television will be an

excellent si point
for future contacts ae a
writer as well as a

- singer,” she says.

On Wednesday,
February 28, Thain went
into the a studio to tape the
video Segment
special.

Bveryorie anys I
looked relaxed but I was
80 scared my mouth went
totally dry...E've never

been so petrified in all my

life,” she says. .

The only time.she came:

near to being as nervous
was in October 1977 when
she auditioned — for
duMaurier and was
placed in the top 45 and
‘later in Novemt
when she won a place
among the top semi-
finalists,

She overcame her fears

by telling herself that if: -

she wanted to continue in
the business she had to

., Get over such feelings and

that she was responsible
for her’ own work,

“Keep your own
destiny under your own
control,’? she says.
“Confidence Is based on
each success you have as

you go along:..you make:

your own luck."

‘Thain was
convinced that she was as
ready as other people

thought she was when she

realized she was on her ‘

way to becoming a

national entertainer, but '

she was delighted to find
that when she surfaced
from the auditions and
rehersals that she was on
the right track.

“So many le were
behind me tt could. not
have turned out any other.
way,” she says.

The atudio audience
instantl caught the spirit

' d
helped to Telax her, “

She has been selécted -

by 1500 Canadian
families as one of the six
final winners. to appear
over live television on

June .1

- the -

1978

‘not as”

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1 from Toronto's ,

gets there. -

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Terrace girl finding —

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ang with’her,

The Herald, Friday, May 25, 1979, Page 9

»

Northwest Regional Arts
Courcil has an exciting:
program arranged for a
. Visual and performing arts
conference to be held in
conjunction with. its annual
general meeting, .

The program ‘will consist
of workshops with a number
of provincial agency
representatives, an
exhibition of local arts-and
crafts, and an evening. of
musie and theatre,

The resource people for |
’ the conference will-be Anne
Henslow, ~ audience
development director. of the
Arts Club Theatre in. Van-
couver; Rory Ralston,
general manager of the B.C.
Touring Council; Nini Baird,
co-ordinator of the Outreach
' Program of Emily Carr

- College of Art; and Hal
: Sherman, a high : school band
' specialist. It is ‘alsa hoped.

’.that.Tom Fielding, director
of the ‘provincial cultural’

- acrvices branch, will be able
to attend. -. 3

now exhibition will feature local
, - of the R.E.M. Lee Theatrein
Terrace. Anyone wishing to
exhibit work should contact
their Iccal community arts
council se

doesn’t know
to handle .
le who will

in the’ aut audience that general meeting of the

re out that’ when’ she regional arts council have

Meanwhile her vast
collection of butterflies

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