The Citizen, 2013-08-22, Page 18PAGE 18. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2013.Red Green set to return to Blyth in October
Red Green, also known as Steve
Smith, is returning to Blyth with his
“How to do Everything (From the
man who should know)” tour this
October and he’s excited to be back
at Blyth Memorial Hall.
“It’s fantastic in Blyth, it’s a great
hall,” he said in a phone interview
with The Citizen. “It’s very intimate.
“It’s also the home of the Blyth
Festival which, as we all know, is
world famous in parts of Exeter,” he
added with a laugh.
The new show, which contains
some material from the best-selling
book of the same name, will be a
better show than his previous one
according to Smith as he learned a
lot during that tour.
“This one is much better,” he said.
“To be honest, the first one-man
show, it was kind of like I just pulled
a bunch of stuff together for a show
and I had never done that before. It’s
a learning experience.
“I applied what I learned, that edu-
cation, to the new show,” he said.
The show will also contain a lot of
new material, as does the book,
because, as Smith said, greatest hits
are for musicians, not comedians.
“You have to keep doing new
things if you’re doing comedy,” he
said. “I’m feeling good about this
though, generating the new material
and having to do that kind of work.”
While the tour actually begins in
September, Smith said that the show
doesn’t really start until he gets to
Blyth.
“Everything before Blyth is just
preparing for Blyth, it’s definitely
going to be the best show on the
journey,” he joked.
While travelling isn’t always his
idea of fun, Smith said that seeing
Canada and being in front of live
audiences is one of his favourite
entertainment experiences thus far.
“Being in front of a live audience
is great and I love it,” he said. “The
internet doesn’t allow you to be
there, to see the reaction.”
Smith added that, while you can
be all over the world with the inter-
net, you can really only be in one
place.
“You’re either there or you’re not
and if you’re not, you’re not getting
the same reaction,” he said. “It’s a
slight against the current trend of
having everything immediately.”
The show travels across Canada
and the United States but Smith said
they were more selective with their
stops with this tour than they had
been in the last one.
“Our last tour was experimental,
we really went everywhere,” he said.
“This time, we’re going to go wherepeople liked us and that’s a goodpolicy to have.”During that previous tour, Smith’sRed Green tour was named the 35thplace top touring act on the conti-nent.“We had a good response every-where, but there were pockets where
it was better,” he said. “In the US we
did well in the mid-west. In Canada,
we were strong from Ontario to
British Columbia and a little weaker
in the maritimes, but there are still
pockets there.”
While the show is definitely
geared towards Smith’s experience
as a man, and will likely be appreci-
ated by most men because of that,
the audience isn’t limited.
“It will be educational for women
and informative for men,” he said.
Anyone who has been in the situa-
tion where they had to repair some-
thing and pay $1,000 to fix a $10
item will understand. Those are my
kind of people.”
He said the show will cover his
“usual cornucopia of subject matter
and attitudes” and that the show will
be a “beginners guide to women for
men who don’t read instructions.”
Beyond that, he said he is on the
stage to have fun and explore what
he finds amusing and interesting.“That’s all I’ve ever done,” hesaid. “I don’t imagine what the audi-ence wants, I just do what I want. IfI’m not enjoying myself or I’m onautopilot, the audience can sensethat. If that’s true, I should be lyingdown in a dark room. I owe it to theaudience to do what I want to be
doing.”
People attending will leave the
show with a revelation at the end of
the day, he says, and feel better when
they leave the theatre than when they
entered it.
The show will be held on Oct. 19
at 7 p.m. and tickets are available
from the Blyth Festival box office.
For more information, visit
www.redgreen.com
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their photos onto a disc that they can
take home.
The workshop schedules will be
posted at branch libraries across
Huron. Early registration is encour-
aged, as space is limited.
Honouring the Elders will culmi-
nate with an Heirlooms and &
Artifacts Exhibit at the Huron
County Museum from Oct. 19 to
Oct. 27 curated by Bill Farnell. The
exhibit will display and share results
from the workshops. It will also fea-
ture videotaped interviews with area
seniors and a collection of personal
heirlooms along with the stories
behind them.
The Honouring the Elders project
is funded in part by the Government
of Canada’s New Horizons for
Seniors program.
A dangerous man
Steve Smith, known to his fans as Red Green, has another date with Blyth this October after
his hugely successful appearance at Memorial Hall last fall. Smith says he learned a lot about
touring last year and hopes to bring that wealth of experience to this year’s slate of shows.
(Photo submitted)
Workshop
starts soon Come & GoOpen House
Saturday, August 24
2-4 pm
at our home, 763 Ainley St., Brussels
to celebrate the
60th Anniversary of
Ross & Shirley Smith
Forthcoming
Marriage
Steve and Debbie Cook
along with
Bill and Karen Courtney
are pleased to announce
the forthcoming marriage
of their children
Michelle Lynn Cook
to
Kyle William Adam
Courtney
on
August 24, 2013
The wedding will take place
in Varna, Ontario
54 King St.
Clinton 519-482-3951
Jewellery
Forthcoming
Wedding
Congratulations
Mandy Timmings,
daughter of
Jim and Denise Timmings
and
Markus Redmond,
son of
Karen Redmond
and the late Michael Redmond
on their forthcoming wedding
on August 24, 2013
at the Church of St. Peter,
Oustic, ON.
Dinner and reception to follow
at the Timmings Farm,
near Rockwood, ON.
Love you always,
Brandon, Abby and Tyson
Happy 25th
Annivesary
Mom and Dad
Happy 60th
Anniversary
Maxine & Bill Seers
August 22, 2013
Love from all your family
By Denny Scott
The Citizen