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Village Squire, 1978-10, Page 25UPDATE Canadian Brass at Blyth in November There was good news and bad news when the Blyth Centre for the Arts announced its winter season last month. The good news was that one of the most popular musical groups in Canada will make a rare appearance outside a major centre. The Canadian Brass, which last year completed a well publicized tour of China will appear at Memorial Hall, Blyth on November 15. The lively group plays everything from ragtime to the classics always with a special verve that has proven a crowd pleaser across the country. Music will also be highlighted when the Centre joins with CKNX FM radio to present a concert of folk and bluegrass music by Western Ontario musicians on October 29. That show will be taped for later broadcasting over the station. Also scheduled for this fall on November 1 is an appearance for the first time at the Centre of mime with Bibi Caspari and her mime dance company. The disappointment of the schedule is the demise of the film club the Centre was trying to organize to show classic films. The problem was that too few people enrolled in the club to make it economically feasible. The popular film series for children will continue. however with showings the second Saturday of every month. Among the films booked for the season are Hans Christian Anderson. Dr. Doolittle and Huck Finn. Later in the season opera will return to Memorial Hall when the University of Western Ontario's opera workshop pays its second visit. Administrator Jan Dutton promises that other attractions are in the works to keep Memorial Hall almost as busy a place during the winter as it is in summer. RADIO STATION BRINGING BACK TRADITION One of the things that made the tiny radio station in Wingham famous was its use of local talent in live radio broadcasts. That tradition is coming back in a small way on CKNX FM station Stereo 102. The station has become involved in a number of live musical concerts which are taped for later broadcast in stereo over the station. The broaticasts include ' two scheduled concerts later this month. The first such concert will take place ate the Hanover Town Hall on October 22 and will feature Richard Knechtel, Jensen and Walker and Gregg Deckert and Robin Walton. The concert will take place at 8 p. m. The second concert will be at the Blyth Memorial Hall on October 29 at 8 p.m. Featured entertainers will be Barb Bandfield of London, Bob Burchill of Dublin and the Dixie Flyers bluegrass band from London. CKNX became famous for its music back in the early days of the station when its founder Doc Cruikshank kept local musicians employed providing music. The centrepiece of the station's programming in those days was the CKNX Travelling Barn Dance which originated live from a different town each Saturday night and was broadcast over the station, The Barn Dance had a wide following all over southern Ontario and helped start the careers of such luminaries as Al Cherney and Tommy Hunter. A barn dance reunion held in Brussels as part of the 1978 International Plowing Match celebrations was one of the concerts rebroadcast over Stereo 102 this year. TAKING IT TO THE QUEBECOIS A Toronto theatre group that is so familiar to people in Western Ontario that it's almost as much at home here as there, has been winning new friends in another part of the country recently. Theatre Passe Muraille, headed by Listowel native Paul Thompson spent the summer in Montreal trying to get to the heart of the current problems between Quebecois and the rest of the country. Their daring plan was to research the subject by talking to Montrealers then present a play to French speaking audiences, in French, even though the actors are not fluently bilingual. The final product is Les Maudits Anglais, which translates roughly as "Those Damned English" succeeds wildly by all reports. Playing at Theatre d'Aujourd'hui the play is in for a five week run following which, according to Mr. Thompson, it will return to the TPM home base in Toronto for two performances which he figures should attract the curious, the faithful and the French of the city. Mr. Thompson and his group have made a habit of going out to get to know people and then presenting the story right back to them of course. The most famous of their trips was the visit to Clinton which resulted in The Farm Show. It was followed by shows such as The West Show and Under the Greywacke, about northern Ontario. The reviews of Les Maudits Anglais have) been laudatory. 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