The Citizen, 1990-10-10, Page 22M
Entertainment
Makin’ Music
Eric Nagler shows children the fun of making music in his concert comi ng up Oct. 20 at Blyth
Memorial Hall. The entertainer is returning for the second time to Blyth and is also familiar through
his work on Sharon, Lois and Bram’s Elephant Show and on Sesame Street.
—Nagler puts fun into music
Fiddle on a cornstalk? You bet!
Everyday objects are turned into
the instruments of Eric’s orchestra
in his fun-filled concert on Satur
day, October 20 at 2 p.m. in Blyth
Memorial Hall.
Spoons, combs, tin can bongos,
musical saw, washtub bass and
funny harps are but a few of the
unlikely musical treats that Eric
shows us how to build and play.
This popular family entertainer
appears regularly on “Mr. Dress
Up”, “Sesame Street” and Shar
on, Lois and Bram’s “The Elephant
Show”.
Concerts like this one in Blyth
are the heart and soul of Eric’s
career and no one sits still while his
musical magic is at play. Handing
out home made instruments such
as spoons, shakers and bells, Eric’s
concerts naturally resonate from
the stage or orchestra an entire
audience into a symphony of song,
dance and feverish fun and playful
performance. Whether it’s the
upbeat strum of his bango in “How
D’ya Do” or the soulful toot of his
serenade to “My Lovely Sewer
phone”, Eric has his audience
singing, clapping, slapping, jing
ling and rattling just about any
thing they can get their hands on!
*• With adults and children all taking 14 part together, his concerts become
a shared experience and everybody
gets into the act.
Eric Nagler grew up in the
heyday of folk music in the 1960’s
in New York City. He started
playing bangjo at the age of
fourteen, picking it up by hanging
around Washington Square in
Greenwich Village on Sunday after
noons, where people from all over
the city gathered by the fountain to
make music. Although music was
his first love, Eric spent his early
years as a teacher end educational
researcher. He came to Canada in
1968, and settled in Toronto where
he founded the Toronto Folklore
Centre, representing the first cen
tre of its kind in Canada.
A man of many faces, Eric
Nagler has become a favoured
name in the homes of families
across North America through his
cameo roles as a featured guest
performer on the internationally
acclaimed family television series
Sharon, Lois & Bram’s “Elephant
Show”. Every episode, Eric joins
Sharon, Lois & Bram, their pachy
derm pal, Elephant, along with the
neighbourhood kids and a host of
special guests to contribute his own
brand of spontaneous mischief,
musical antics and infectious hu
mour. Eric has been seen aboard a
sea-faring pirate ship, masquerad
ing as an ugly stepsister in ‘Cinder-
Elephant’, rap-dancing in the
woods with ‘Snow White Elephant’
and winking at the world as the
‘Man In the Moon’. Since 1978,
Eric has devoted himself to the art
of making family music. He spends
50 per cent of the year touring with
his three-piece band, performing at
major children’s festivals and con
cert halls across North America.
Eric Nagler has two successful
record albums to his credit, both on
the Elephant Records Canada
label: “Come On In’’ and “Fiddle
Up A Tune’’. His home video,
“Making Music With Eric” fea
tures excerpts from “The Elephant
Show” and new colouring book and
tape, “Country Friends with Eric
Nagler” are both popular items for
kids.
Eric Nagler performs for one
performance only at the Blyth
Memorial Hall on Saturday, Octo
ber 20th at 2 p.m.
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1990. PAGE 23.
County to press province
to improve highways
Huron County Council will press
the new provincial government for
improvements to the provincial
highways in the county.
The subject was raised by Exeter
Reeve Bill Mickle who said he had
recently been on a trip and was
impressed with the quality of
provincial highways in other parts
of the province then came back to
Huron County and felt the condi
tion of provincial highways here
does not compare well. Highways 4
and 8 are in terrible shape, he said
and the county should make an
effort to get the highways updated.
Letter from the editor
Continued from page 5
Dominican Republic.
The problem, I suspect, is that
we Canadians are still like teen
agers who need the constant reas
surance that we’re one of the “in”
crowd. Baseball, with its huge
American television exposure, with
its treatment almost as a religion in
the American publicity machine
very definitely seems to be “in”.
Even hockey, our national sport,
pales by comparison of acceptabil
ity because the national television
Reeve Mickle said that the fact
Huron County’s own highway sys
tem is so good may encourage the
province to neglect provincial high
ways. Since the province pays only
half the costs of county roads the
province is getting a good road
system for 50-cent dollars, he
suggested.
He said the county should re
quest an update from the Ministry
of Transportation as to when
improvements are to be made tn
Huron highways and push to
upgrade the priority of when the
local highways are scheduled for
improvements.
networks ignore it, or if they notice,
make jokes about it. And Canadian
football, of course, can’t possibly
be as exciting as the NFL because
there isn’t as much hype about it on
all the U.S. networks.
You hope for your teenagers that
they’ll eventually outgrow having
to go along with the gang. You
hope they’ll be able to see beyond
the superficial sex-appeal of some
hunk and see the values of some
plainer, but truer, romantic candi
date. Is there hope our sport fans
will grow up too?
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Part-Time Student, Owen Sound
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you in your career or fulfill a lifelong dream. Regardless of the
reason, taking degree-credit courses can be a satisfying,
invigorating experience. Begin your preparations now for the
1991 summer sessions. Academic and general counselling will
be offered in this area on:
Wednesday, October 24, 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Kincardine District Secondary School, Room 12
For morejnformation, call Tina Clift (UWO Representative) at 396-
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