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Backstage Pass dinner and auction raises $24,000
backstage in Blyth Memorial
Community Hall on Saturday, Oct.
14. Eight months of planning the
Backstage Pass Fundraising Dinner
and Auction were rewarded by over
$24,000 in funds towards the capital
With All Access backstage passes
around their necks, patrons of the
Blyth Festival enjoyed an evening
Gone!
The Blyth Festival gala dinner and auction, Back Stage Pass, was a huge success on Saturday
night, with a great crowd showing up to raise funds for the theatre. Cappy Onn of Blyth, holds
a pair of candlesticks as auctioneer Fred Lobb finds the highest bidder. (Vicky Bremnerphoto)
Singers join mass
By Brenda Radford
The Blyth Festival Singers are
headed uptown and you are invited
to share the tremendous experience
with them! Churches, community
centres and Blyth theatre are the
usual venues for this local choir. But
on Nov. 3 they will be part of a 350-
voice choir at Centennial Hall in
London.
The more than 50 voices that make
up the Blyth Festival Singers come
from all over Huron County and
from every walk of life. However, it
and similar choirs across Ontario are
limited, by their very nature, in the
music they are able to perform.
Funds play a large part in those lim
itations.
Gerald Fagan, well known music
conductor, of London, recognizing
those limitations, presented a pro
posal to the Ontario Trillium
Foundation.
The foundation, an agency of the
Ministry of Citizenship, Culture and
Recreation is financially supported
by the Government of Ontario. It
was established in 1982 to ensure
that a portion of the proceeds of the
Ontario Lottery Corporation is
directed toward social issues in the
province. Its mission is to ensure that
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Under the Arts and Culture sector,
the corporation funds both profes
sional and amateur activities which
include the performing arts and com
munity arts initiatives.
Gerald Fagan’s proposal for a
mass choir received $25,000 in fund
ing. Invitations were issued to sever
al small choral groups to join the
Gerald Fagan Singers and The
London Fanshawe Symphonic
Chorus in the presentation of King
David an oratorio by Honegger.
The Karen Schuessler Singers of
London, The New St. Paul’s
Anglican Church Choir from
Woodstock, The Stonetown Choral
Society of St. Marys, The Strolling
Minstrels of No Fixed Address based
in London and The Blyth Festival
Singers accepted the invitation and
the challenge. The opportunity for
the Blyth choir to be a part of this
concert may have been influenced
by the fact that Gerald Fagan’s
daughter. Leslie, an accomplished
concert soloist, is married to Richard
Hansen, Blyth’s current choir direc
tor.
The choir will be accompanied by
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choir
The Concert Players Orchesetra of
London. Guest soloists include
Jennifer Such (soprano); Vicki St.
Pierre (mezzo soprano) and Stephen
Harland (tenor).
One of Stratford’s finest
Shakespearean actors will be doing
the narration. King David is the story
of David, second king of Israel as
found in the book of Samuel of the
Old Testament.
The choir acknowledges that it is a
privilege to be working with and
learning from Gerald Fagan and the
other choirs involved.
General admission tickets for the
concert are available from the Blyth
choir members or by calling
Centennial Hall at 519-672-1967.
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campaign.
“That’s double the amount that the
1998 auction raised,” said Blyth
Festival Special Events Co-ordinator
Sydney Anderson.
As the guests arrived at the auction
for the pre-dinner viewing of the
items, they were given an All Access
pass with a bidding number on the
back. Following the theme of
Backstage Pass, the guests were
given the role of cast and crew mem
bers, with Jim Swan, president of the
board of directors, as the stage man
ager.
The music of Cactus Jam created
the feeling of a party as the guests
browsed, mingled and sampled hors
d’oevres.
Backstage Pass involved 180
guests, 30 volunteers, 140 silent auc
tion items and 52 live auction items.
“The Blyth Festival is lucky to have
such dedicated community support.
It takes a lot of people to make an
event like this so successful,” said
Anderson.
The Blyth Festival is a profession
al summer theatre dedicated to pro
ducing and developing Canadian
plays. It hosts a fundraising dinner
and auction every second year.
Although the main season runs
from June to September, there are
other special events approaching.
The Christmas Pantomime Show
CALEIGH CLARK
Hi! My name is Caleigh and on
Oct. 20 I will be two years old.
I seem to have entered the
terrible twos early, keeping my
parents (Mike and Shannon)
on their toes. Happy birthday
to Pappy on Oct. 25- See you
next year.
Caleigh
P.S. I would like to welcome
my little brother, Devyn, who
was born Oct. 4.
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The family of John and Teena Claus
invite you to help celebrate their
50th Wedding Anniversary
Open House at Blyth Christian Reformed Church
Saturday, October 21, 2000
1:30 ~ 4:00 p.m.
Best Wishes Only or a
donation to the Food Grains Bank
White and the Seven Dwarfs (Give or
Take) runs Dec. 1 and 2, and the
Ontario Ballet Theatre’s The
Nutcracker will be presented Dec. 7.
For more information contact the
Blyth Festival Box Office at 523-
9300.
Happy (Biithday
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WILLIAMS - KOLKMAN
Together with our parents
we would like to announce
our forth coming marriage
Victoria Lynn Williams
and
Stephen Kolkman
The wedding will take place on
October 21, 2000
Family and friends are welcome
to join us for the reception at the
Blyth Community Centre,
Blyth, Ontario at 8:30 p.m.