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MUSIC

A GEORGE FOX, a threé-time Juno award winner, brings the best in Canadian country music to the R-E.M. Lee Theatre on Wed- nesday, March 10. Showtime:is.8. p.m. Tickets are si9 at Sight and Sound,

A CHRIS HALEY is the tounge act in Fanny’s Lounge in the Coast Inn. of the West Mar. 8-13, C.W. KATEY takes over from Mar. 15-20th,

_ A KARAOKE NIGHT js every Thursday (9 p.m, to 1 a.m.) and Sunday (8 p.m. to midnight) at George’s Pub in the Northem Motor Inn and every Friday night (7 p.m. to 1 am.) at the Thomhill Neighbourhood Pub.

THEATRE

AA CLOSER WALK WITH PATSY CLINE brings the Arts Club Theatre’s hit musical cast featuring singer Colette Wise to the R.E.M. Lee Theatre Friday, March 5. Showtime 8 p.m. Tickets $20 ($14 for students/seniors) at Erwin’s Jewellers in the. Skeena Mall.

-A Terrace Concert Society presentation. .. “oy :

A ALIVE plays at 7 and 9:15 p.m. tonight ind ‘Thursday night, along with SNIPER, starring Tom Bercnger, a at 7:15 and 9: 30 p.m. Starting Friday: & HOMEWARD BOUND: THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY, a Walt Disney presentation, starts Friday at 7 and 9:15 p.m. Also

starting Friday is Emilio Estevez in National Lampoon’s LOADED WEAPON at 7:15 and 9:30 p.m.

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FY THE INTERNATIONAL POTLUCK DINNER, the annual presentation of the Terrace and District Multicultural Association, takes place at 5 p.m. Saturday, March 13 at the Arena banquet room. Tickets available at Misty River Books, Sight & Sound, Northwestem Specialty Foods. Fach faintly’ must t bring an ethnic dish.

& 10th ANNIVERSARY SHOW mns from Mar. 3-30 at the Terrace Art Gallery, The: exhibition showcases the works of artists who participated in the March 1983 opening show of the gallery, There will be an open house March 7. Gallery hours are noon to 3 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday, and 1 to 4 p.m. on Sun- day.

Make the Scene! Call 638-7283 or fax fo 638-8432 to add your event to the Standard’s free entertainment listings. The Aegdling Gis.5 p. m Thursday for the following week’s paper.

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Kenny... Ropers wrote The Gambler, he shoyld have dedicated the ° hit song to George Fox, .

-In 1987 the rancher from Cochrane, Alberta decided to trade in his farm and life Savings

“fora shot at the music business, | ‘{sold enough cattle and came up with about 35 grand and did this record on my own,’’ Fox ~ recalls. ‘*People-said ‘Man, he’s . » gotio be crazy.”

Fox ‘almost thought he was too, until he got the call from Toronto -—~ from Bob Roper at. Warner Music of Canada wanting to Sign him to a record deat,

‘Any call from Edmonton was pretty bizarre at that time, let alone Toronto,” he says. ‘‘] was. totally shocked out of my mind,’”’

Warner management pulled him off the hayrack and put him on stage to tour with Randy Travis.

Four albums and three Juno awards later, the 32-year-old Fox is one of the fastest-rising stars in Canadian country music. .

His newly released album Mustang Heart is doing well, The title track — which Fox hopes will be the signature hit that has. . so far eluded him — debuted at No. 29 on the Canadian country” charts.

He got his start singing outside of high school. He Linked up with a couple other musicians and: Started playing,

“Tl was known as The Fox, which was a takeoff from The ~ Fonz on Happy Days,’' he says, <

He played weddings, com-' munity dances, and bars for a dozen years in Alberta. before. deciding to make his own album. ““T never used.to believe in fate. But the way things have gone in my life I think it was scripted out or meant to be,”’

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GEORGE FOX, the Alberta rancher who gambled all on his music, plays the F.E.M. Lee Theatre Lee Theatre Wednesday, March, here on Wednesday, | March 10th, His new album Mustang Heart wes: released: two'weeks age.

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