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Photographic journey opens at Gallery
The new exhibition featuring
black and white photography of
William Henry opening Sept. 6 in
the Bainton Gallery complements
Anne Lederman’s Spirit of the
Narrows.
Henry met Carl Grexton in 1977 at
Grandview Manitoba and
immediately fell under the spell of
his unique and individual approach
to fiddle music. Through his
company he soon met many fiddlers
in the Manitoba Parkland region. He
attended numerous fiddle contests
and concerts, pancake breakfasts
with fiddle music, parades, street
festivals and fiddle parties. “I
became sadly aware that most of
these fiddlers were in their senior
years, some already into their 80s”,
Henry remembers. “Within a few
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Family ties pull together playbill
for 2006
The bonds of family, whether
between mother and son, mother and
daughter, or among siblings, will be
explored in the 15 plays to be
presented at the Stratford festival in
2006, artistic director Richard
Monette announced recently.
Officially opening the Festival
season on Monday, May 29, will .be
Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, directed
by executive director Antoni
Cimolino and featuring Colm Feore
in the title role.
Other Shakespeares on the playbill
in 2006 are Henry IV, Part I, to be
directed by Monette; Much Ado
About Nothing, to be directed by
Stephen Ouimette; and Twelfth
Night, to be directed by Leon Rubin.
In addition, the Festival will
present The Duchess of Malfi by
Shakespeare’s contemporary John
Webster, directed by Peter Hinton.
A Christmas tradition continues as
Doon Heritage Crossroads presents
its lineup of evening programs
offered in December. Tickets are on
sale now for Lantern Light Tours
and Starry Night.
Lantern Light Tours are scheduled
for four evenings in December.
Tickets are now on sale for this very
popular Christmas program that will
run Friday and Saturday evenings,
Dec. 9, 10, Friday, Dec. 16 and
Thursday, Dec. 22 at 7 p.m. or 8:30
p.m. each evening. A Lantern Light
tour includes a visit to a select
number of seasonally-decorated
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years they would be gone and so
would their many unique and
individual approaches to playing this
versatile instrument, as well as the
regional styles of playing dance
music.”
During 1984 and again in 1986
Henry spent time recording willing
musicians and photographing key
individual players, including the
great Metis fiddler Grandy Fagnan
from Camperville, Manitoba.”
Happily, I sent a tape of Grandy’s
remarkable music to my friend Ian
Bell, who passed it on to Anne
Lederman and sparked her interest
in his and other Metis fiddle music.
That tape led to Anne’s several
journeys to rural Manitoba where
she met and recorded many
Metis musicians who would
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“In all these plays, family has the
central role,” Monette said. “Prince
Hal must choose between the world
of his real father, the King, and his
adopted father, Falstaff. In Much
Ado About Nothing, the story
revolves around a wronged young
woman who is defended by her
father and her cousins. The
separation and reunion of the twins
Viola and Sebastian is at the heart of
Twelfth Night, and, in The Duchess
of Malfi, we follow the bloodied
story of three siblings vying for
control over the kingdom, and each
other.”
The Glass Menagerie by
Tennessee Williams, to be directed
by Miles Potter, “is the story of a
mother, her daughter, and Tom, who,
as son and brother, shares his
memories of his frail family,”
Monette said. Ghosts by Henrik
buildings in the historic village, a decorated village. Visitors can
horse-drawn wagon ride and a sample hot cider, roasted chestnuts,
Christmas concert in the Freeport fresh baking made from authentic
Church.
Starry Night will be held on
Saturday, Dec. 17 from 6:30 p.m. to
9:30 p.m. This evening recreates a
village Christmas of 1914, with over
100 lanterns lighting the seasonally
been otherwise overlooked by
history. As a photographer and a
documentarian, I'm delighted to
have the opportunity to share some
of the photographs I made during
those years, in conjunction with the
Blyth Festival’s production of Spirit
of The Narrows, Anne’s story of her
time spent pursuing Metis fiddle
music.”
Henry studied photography at both
Ryerson and Conestoga College. He
worked for several years as a photo
darkroom technician, musician and
music teacher, construction worker
and Manitoba fire ranger before
beginning a newspaper journalism
career in 1982 at The Dauphin
Herald.
Since then Henry has worked as a
reporter, photographer and editor for
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Ibsen, to be directed by Ouimette,
centres on the relationship between
the widow Helena Alving and her
painter son, Oswald.
On a lighter note, trickster sons
deceive comically unseeing fathers
both in London Assurance, a
splendid comedy of manners by
Dion Boucicault to be directed by
Brian Bedford, and in The Liar by
17th-century French playwright
Pierre Corneille, to be directed by
Matthew Jocelyn. The womanizing
Don Juan in Moliere’s Don Juan, to
be directed by Lorraine Pint, I.
blithely cheats on his wife dona
Elvira - not counting that her loyal
brothers, and his own father, will
take her side.
Bedford will play Harcourt
Courtly in London Assurance, a role
that won him a Tony nomination in
1997, and Feore will play the title
1914 recipes, and listen to the
caroilers, as they enjoy this very
special winter’s evening under the
stars.
Tickets must be purchased in
advance by calling 748-I914.
weekly newspapers including two ' community. Artists represented are
years (l 988-1990) as editor at
the Goderich Signal-Star. He has
been a copy editor, staff
photographer and is now a full-time
staff news reporter at the Osprey-
owned Sun Tinies newspaper in
Owen Sound.
Henry has also been a part-time
musician throughout this time and
has played with the bluegrass bands
Cumberland Wail based in London,
ON and with the Duck Mountain
Bluegrass Band based in Dauphin,
Manitoba. Since 1991 he has been
the fiddler with the Glenelg Full
Moon Country Dance Band, with
annual appearances at the popular
Goderich Celtic Roots festival.
The Blyth Festival Art Gallery
operates solely by volunteers in the
role in Don Juan.
Two previously announced
musicals - Oliver! directed and
choreographed by Donna Feore and
featuring Colm Feore as Fagin, and
South Pacific, directed and
choreographed by Michael
Lichtefeld and featuring Cynthia
Dale as Nellie Forbush - also
explore the theme of family ties,
specifically of children searching for
parents to care for them.
Rounding out the playbill are two
one-woman showcases: The Blonde,
the Brunette and the Vengeful
Redhead, a black comedy about
infidelity by Australian Robert
Hewitt, to be directed by Geordie
Johnson, and Fanny Kemble by
Peter
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about
Shakespearean actress, author and
abolitionist.
As well, an additional Canadian
play will be confirmed for the 2006
season later this year.
all Canadian, primarily from
southwestern Ontario. Annual
activities in the Gallejy include a
secondary school student exhibit, a
non-juried community art show and
three professional exhibitions. It has
posted a surplus on annual
operations every year.
Spirit of the Narrows, The
Photographs of William Henry, is on
display in the Bainton Gallery at
Blyth Memorial Community Hall in
Blyth Sept. 6-10. The Gallery is
open from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Monday through Saturday. Hours
are extended until 9 p.m. when
performances are on stage at the
Blyth Festival.
Forthcoming
Marriage
Murray and Marlene
Fischer are pleased
to announce the
upcoming marriage of
their son, Clint to
Trish McLaughlin,
daughter of Ron and Lois
McLaughlin of Listowel.
The wedding will
take place Saturday,
September 10, 2005 at
the Trinity United Church
in Listowel.
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