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10 THE HURON EX MU*, JUI. 27, 1978
.Setendip•tje
By Alice 6161?
For years I have been secretly in love with a folksinger called
Doug McArthur.
Since that first night, long ago, when I sat in a dimly-lit
London coffeehouse (I have yet to discover a coffeehouse that
isn't-dimly lit) called Smales Pace and listened to McArthur sing,
about the beautiful Isle of Skye in his lovely deep voice, I've been
hooked.
Oh; it wasn't just that the man could sing acid play a mean
guitar! No, it was McArthur's whole,funny attitude to life and
love and fame - here was someone who really expected: to make
'his none on the 'stages of, London, Ontario - someone who
performed in .blue. jeatIS and cracked jokes about Johnny Cash
and was obviously a man of the people.
McArthur was a metaphor for most Canadian' artists -
completely unsuccessful but still struggling valiantly.
As the 'singer said about himself, "1 am short, and stocky,
sarcastic and blond ,.. I am white Anglo Saxon, Protestant, rich
and healthy. I drink to forget,."
But then, just when I thought I could depend on McArthur not
to go the way of other Smales Pace performers like Murray
McLachlan and Dave Bradstreet, I learned that my hero had
moved to that great metropolis to the east - the city that lures our
- young people with•false promises of fame; fortune and evenings
spent looking out front the rooftop restaurant Hof the CN Tower.
Yes, McArthur' had moved to "Trawna" - and, even worse,
rumor had it, he was doing something for that great corporate
polder structure -*the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Home County
So last weekend, when I made my trek to London's Home
County Festival, the annual three day folk happening in Victoria
Park, it was with a sense of doom. •
What if "Trawna" had spOiled McArthur? What if he'd gone
big city - imported a hard rock band, to back h,im up on stage and
come to the festival with a beautiful, svelte blonde-dangling from
his arm?
_.._Now Horne—C-ounty—whieh—started 41ve years'-'ago,-'has
undergone some changes itself. It's still 'one of the few
reminders left that there actually was a decade called the Sixties
when we suddenly disCovered long hair, blue jeans, and sandals;'
when people dropped out or sat in to protest everything, from the
,atom bomb testings in Alaska to Canada's drug laws. It was in
,the Sixties that we discovered minorities - the blacks, the
ChicanoS, Canada's native population, and even women.
Folksingers like Bob Dylan promised us the times "they are a
chang-in" and people really believed they could change the
system just by caring, waving a few signs and learning the right
jargon..
The Sixties, however, did revive the , songs of protest, and
music "again became one weapon in the crusade against social
evils. •
In its early days, Home County organized as a free festival,
attracted an eclectic group of contemporary folk artists band
audiences and London's city fathers worried a good deal about
just what was happening in their park.
But in the past five years, Home County, along with other
festivals like Mariposa in Toronto and the Winnipeg Folk
Festival has become respe4ble.
First, even though people still walk around in bare feet,'
they're pretty well-scrubbed bare feet and while their clothes
may look funky or earth"y or whatever, they come right off the
racks oft, the city's better stores. This festival even saw some of
the audience sporting spike heels and if that's not trendy, what
is? •
Strumming •
The young merr,strilinthink theif guitars under the trees And
. dreaming of theiday they'll make it have been replaced by
tanneiTyOungmen who probably work in offices, tossing frisbees
or trying to outdo eack other by showing up at the festival with
the most unusual breed of dog they can buy or borrow.
This year's most unusual pet award had to go to the 'lovely
young man who attended tifelfifFirdify event wearine only shoits
and his boa constrictor, which wound-and epwound itself from,
hii neck as the concert progressed.
This year, instead of the junk food normally served up in the
PIJC food booths, festival organizers invited some of Lcindon's
health food restaurants to set up stands and you could munch
dried fruit, nuts .and grains or sandwiches made with cream
cheese and bean sprouts instead of the usual semi-warm hot
dogs and coke. •
But the biggest change in the festival was the music itself.
' Vancouver
While there were still lots of musicians singing tales of urban
angst, or about taking off 'for Vancouver (Canada's answer to
California), festival organizers also inclu-ded more traditional folk
artists in the concert, David Parry and Margaret Christi sang
beautiful British folk ballads which are centuries old, two
French-Canadian groups calied La Reve du Diable and En Allant
Vers managed to rouse the' audience with some rollicking tunes
from Quebec and and hisii group called Comhaltas. Ceoltoiri
Eireann from Toronto brought people to their feet for some good
old step dancing to some jigs, reels and horn pipes. As one of the
folk artists pointed out, getting people to dance in "repressed
London" is no •mean feat.
Audiences could listen either to individual artists or sit in on,
'some of the workshops featuring a number of artists - workshops
with names like "Songs you wouldn't sing to Mother" (or your
father for that matter, unless you don't blush easily), "Booze is
the only answer - er, I forgot the question" and "Escape to the
country - a' breath of fresh air."
There were lots of things about the ' festival that hadn't
changed - Beverley Glenn-Copeland still pounds out chords on
her piano that can made you happy in spite of anything; Owen
McBride still sings some wicked Irish ditties that, would keep any-
audience awake and-the Comhaltas -group had people clapping
and whooping with delight in an otherwise restrained Saturday
My hero
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night conseet.,_ - -
But now,' about my hero - you remember, the folksinger from
that dimly lit coffeehouse in the opening paragraph's.
Well, first, he came on stage wearing a city haircut - no, worse
:than, that - wearing an expensive - looking big city haircut. The
long hair and beard routine was over.
But, even worse' than the haircut - the' blue' jeans were gone!"
McArthur „was wearing white pants! My heart sank.-
The next thing I expected to see was a silver chain dangling
around his neck, and I've learned by now, you can'3 trust a man
' who wears jewellery! •
No, McArthur wasn't wearing a necklace. But he•had changed
- his old sarcasm and the jokes about being a failure were gone.
He even talked about cutting another record and that's a
dangerous sign. Any Canadian who makes more than one record
is risking stardom.
, Oh, his songs were just as mellow and he'd added some new
ones to his repertoire but I missed the old wisecracking
McArthur. I also missed seeing many of the familiar faces at the
festival from other years. Sure, I saw two of my old high school
classmates, but they looked, 'well, so mature. Even the one who
was once ,a hippie looked matronly.
Worried
Then people didn't get into the music as much this year - they
were more worried abotit being seen than about listening to
Marianne Girard's hard-driving lyrics about life .in the city or
clapping along with David Essig's hot licks 'on the mandolin.
Finally, the deepest cut of all,' was that they've renamed Smales
Pace, that smokey haunt of my youth, the Change of Pace Club.
BLit then, on Sunday afternoon, when it seemed all was' lost,
McArthur showed up at the festival dTessed in his jeans again.
Some things stay the same after all. Maybe McArthur won't
become a star!
Now, does anybody have a snake i can borrow to take to next
year's festival? • .
Mr. and Mrs; Matthew Denomme and faniily of Zurich and
Mr. and Mrs. James O'Connor of 5t. Colurnban and Mrs. JO
Delaney, Jayne and Lucille spent Sunday evening with Mr. and
Mrs, James. McQuaid. ,
Mr. and Mrs, Vincent Murray visited Mr. and Mrs, Gordon
'Butters in North Delta, 13.C., and Mrs. Marie MeladY visited
Mrs. Mary Murray, Haney. B.C.
Mr. and Mrs. Jaa Pickard have their daughter and son-in-iaw
Mr. and.MrS.. Barry McAllister, from Omaha, Nebraska' visiting
for two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs, Philip Walker and family of Edmonton and Mr.
and Mrs. Lawrence Ryan of Walton were recent visitors with Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Ryan.-
Mrs. C.L. Fraser and Miss Trow of Toronto and Miss
Marion Sproat and Miss Joan Sproat of Acton and Mrs. J. H.
Grant of StratfOrd were Seaforth visitors on Sunday.
EgniondvilIe
CorreSpondent
Carole Geddes
r. and Mrs. James Cameron
and Miss Pam Geddes visited
Carole and Charlie Geddes on the
weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice
Sea forth Mona Happenings
taYeared with a • WO,- PKappy
Birthday" was sung to- M„r.
Harold Walsh and MIAs MI*
Brill celebrating birthday,
Dancing. Was enjoyed by .eVeryone
With Mr.. Nelson Howe and Size
Ann providing. the music. $Peeipi
thanks . to Ruby Finlayson for
arranging the program and
accompanying the girls. A hearty
invitation was extended to each
one taking part for a retntri•Visit.
Miss Amyo, Love of Toronto
visited her cousin Miss Bessie
Davidson. Miss Rita Duncan
visited her aunt • Kate
Laverty. Mrs. Myrtle 'Taylor of
Britcetield visited with Miss. Ethel
McClure and Mr. ' and Mrs.
Robert McClure.. Also visiting the
McClures was.their grand niece
from Western Canada.
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Pastor Y1elding and ladies .of
Bethel Bible Church visited
Seaforth Manor last Wednesday.
Assisting with the musical part of
the -Program were Mr. and MrS.
Mervin Lobb of, Clinton, Mrs;
Siemon and several ladies gave'
readings. We were happy to see
Mr. and Mrs. Noah Kipfer with
them after Mes. Kipfer's recent
illness,
On ThnXgday afternoon the
Kippen step dancers 'entertained
our residents accompanied by
Mr. Nelson Howe on the violin
and Sue Ann Finlayson on the
piano. Taking part in the program
werrSandy Bell and Beth 'Consitt
and Sandy and Shelley Finlayson.
Shelley also did a ,waltz clog solo.
Doris Wills recited two poems
and Mr. Marshall Youne
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