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Attendance that soared to an estimated
30,000 people provided a fitting testimony
to the endurance and the variety offered at
the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, which
Marked its 1 1th year last weekend at Jericho
Beach Park,

_Canadian talent — much it of a recent
vintage — proved its worth as festival goers
In the thousands filled the grassy spaces
around area stages to participate in work-
shops with names like ‘““Canadian Discont-
ent” and “Let Me See Your I.D. —
Canadian Cultures.”

Recent names like Faith Nolan and Ste-
phen Fearing joined those of established
Canadian acts such as Nancy White and
Katari Taiko, the J apanese-style Vancouver

Tum group, in drawing enthusiastic
applause. Nolan, a progressive singer from

ronto, delighted the audience with a new
Upbeat version of Leadbelly’s anti-racist
Classic, “Bourgeois Blues.”

elative unknowns such as Metis fiddler
eddy Boy Houle, along with Vancouver’s
Popular rockers DOA, introduced a new
Perspective on folk music in the Eighties. If
Politically aware urban rock has now
come folk music, in 1988, Canadian
Music has come into its own at the folk
festival,

From abroad, unique performers such as

Sther Bejarano and her accompanying
8toup Siebenschon sang German and Yid-
dish music on fascism’s reality — Bejarano
IS a survivor of Auschwitz — and the need
to fight it today. Offering a different version
of fiddling were the Musicians of the Nile,
hine Egyptians who played, among other
instruments, the two-string Persian rabab.

Ali Farka Toure of Mali showed an Afri-
Can approach to the electric guitar, produc-
Ing a sound somewhere between traditional
and Jimi Hendrix; similarly, the Four
Brothers performed the distinctive African
Tock that marks the anti-imperialist senti-
Ments of countries like their native Zim-
babwe,

Hugo Torres, a Chilean exile now living -

'n Winnipeg, sang of the struggle to return
democracy to his homeland. Luis Enrique

€jia Godoy was a musical emissary for the
New Nicaragua.

Hawaiian dance and song groups like

alau O Kekuhi and Olomana — whose
Members told a Sunday main stage
audience of their efforts to stop Canadian
and U.S. naval target practice on a sacred
Island in the archipelago — and “Hawaiian
Cowboy” singer Clyde Sproat received
Warm applause, a testimony to the growing

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The recent peace summit between Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. presi-
dent Ronald Reagan will be assessed by the

Orth American representative on the

Orld Peace Council, Rob Prince, in Van-
Couver Tuesday, July 26.

Prince will be joined by Gus Newport,
the former mayor of Berkeley, Calif., and
also U.S. Peace Council member. Newport,
4 member of the civic alliance Berkeley Citi-
Zens’ Action, will also assess the summit and
COmment on his participation in a “fron-
tline” tour of El Salvador, as well as provide
4n analysis of the campaign of Democrat

€sse Jackson.

The event takes place at 2066 Parker St.
NM Vancouver, beginning at 5:30 p.m.

dmission is free and food and refresh-
Ments will be served. The speakers begin at

30 p.m.

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PERFORMERS (clockwise from top):
Nicaragua’s Luis Enrique Mejia Godoy;
Katari Taiko from Vancouver; Toronto’s
Faith Nolan.

interest in genuine music from a U.S. state
whose people have been too long stereo-
typed.

Assorted stylists from the Cajun, Irish,
Scottish and blues genres, and almost any-
thing else, rounded out a festival that was
the most successful since early in the decade.

So large were the crowds that attended
the three sun-drenched days that the festival
has almost taken care of a crippling deficit
inherited from Expo 86 year, when the
world’s fair drew away attendance.

The key problem facing the folk fest these
days is a move by some local right-wingers
to evict it from the Jericho Beach locale.
The festival is neither noisy nor are its
audiences unruly or messy, particularly
when compared to other events which regu-
larly receive city and parks board approval.
The organizers urge all who support the
continued presence of the festival in Van-
couver to write the parks board.

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