Folk festival a fitting trib

ute to Lee Hays

TRIBUNE PHOTOS—DAN KEETON

Vancouver's fifth annual folk music festival featured many perform-
ers noted for their progressive positions on peace, labor and
women’s rights. On the left, top to bottom, are Eric Bogle, Ed Bal-

chowsky and Ronnie Gilbert. Also present was Vancouver's Katari
Taiko (above), whose Japanese talking drums proved to be a hit at
the festival and peace rallies this year.

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It was billed this year as a tribute
to Lee Hays. And in many ways,
the fifth annual Vancouver Music
Festival at Jericho Beach Park July
16 to 18 did justice to the memory
of the former member of the

one year ago.

On hand was a roster of per-
formers whose work personified
the spirit of Hays, the American
progressive songwriter who penned
songs that were to outlive the perse-
cution of the McCarthy era, which
had tried to bury them forever.

One of these, the famous If I
Had a Hammer, constituted a kind
of anthem when it was sung by a
stage full of performers led with
traditional gusto by Hays’ fellow
Weaver and current B.C. resident,
Ronnie Gilbert, at the close of the
festival Sunday night.

Joining Gilbert in song frequent-
ly throughout the festival was vet-
eran singer-songwriter Holly Near,
whose anti-war songs have been
performed by local groups at num-

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erous peace and labor events in
Vancouver this year.

Millions have been moved by
various performers’ renditions of a
recent anti-war song that has al-
ready become a classic, called And
the Band Played Waltzing Matilda.
This year’s festival gave people the
chance to: hear it sung by the au-
thor, Scottish-born Australian Eric
Bogle.

Labor and protest singer Utah
Phillips was back, bringing with
him an old friend, Ed Balchowsky,
a pianist who lost most of his right
arm fighting for the Republican
cause in the Spanish Civil War.
Having retrained himself to play
one-handed piano, Balchowsky’s
many offerings included the
classic, The Peat Bog Soldiers.

“‘Country’’ Joe MacDonald, the
ex-Vietnam veteran who founded
the political rock group The Fish in
the late sixties, was there to sing his
famous anti-Vietnam War hit, Fix-
in’-to-Die Rag and several new of-

based Gayap Rhythm Drummers
received standing ovations for their
political reggae and African influ-
enced sound.

While some criticism has been
voiced in the past about the
festival’s lack of local talent, this
year’s efforts saw some steps taken
to correct that omission. From Fort
Rupert came the Kwagiutl native
dancers, the Hunt Family. And a
big hit at this festival was Vancou-

ver’s Japanese Talking Drums
group, Katari Taiko.

This year’s gate fee was the most
expensive ever, ranging up to $40
for a weekend pass for those who
failed to take advantage of the
‘early bird specials.’’ This was due
in part to a sizeable deficit incurred
at last year’s rain-plagued event.

This year the rain stayed away,
allowing the festival to realize a
weekend attendance of about
23,000.

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