Village Squire, 1978-08, Page 18PEOPLE
If your young children were the kind who
liked to turn the television up loud on a
Saturday morning to watch Junior Talent
Hour from CFPL in recent years, one of the
things that may have helped you keep your
faith in music was Elaine Overholt. Amid
the off key songs, the lip -sync pantomimes
to music and the baton twirlers there was a
few minutes of refreshment for those old
enough to care what happened to music or
who didn't have children on the program
performing. The moments were provided
weekly for several years by Elaine, a music
student at University of Western Ontario
who acted as pianist for the show.
Well today you can enjoy Elaine's music
without having to watch. the baton twirlers
anal the modern gymnasts at the same
time. The 26 year old Woodstock native has
just recorded her first album on the
Canadian Talent Library label distributed
by Attic Records. It's called Elaine
Overholt and provides a wide mixture of
music to show off the lady's ability. Since
graduating in 1975 she's been in Toronto
doing advertising jingles, singing backup
on television shows and teaching voice at
Humber College. All that could change if
the new album proves popular.
Big things also seem to be in the wind for
former St. Marys resident Tom Osgerby
who with Ken ShooIts and Mark Hawken
make up the musical group Music Shoppe.
The group has just recorded a new album
on the Tomarken label and has been
drawing rave reviews across the country.
Writing in the Edmonton Journal
columnist Brian Swarbick said "They're
stars ... a split second before the whole
world discovers them, I recommend
sincerely that Edmontonians discover them
first..."
Critics generally have applauded the
1978 productions at the Stratford Festival
but nothing on the stage can match the on
going drama off stage surrounding Festival
Artistic Director Robin Phillips. First it was
the mysterious illness that made him
cancel two of the shows scheduled for the
end of the season, then it was off to
England from whence a blockbuster letter
was delivered saying he was resigning his
post for unexplained reasons.
If box office sales weren't already at a
frantic pace one might accuse Phillips of a
perfect act to hype the Festival sales over
the long summer months. But all the
mystery has every reporter in the country
trying to sniff out leads that aren't there.
Whatever is being said is being kept quiet
at least it has been until press time. The
whole thing would make a good soap
opera. Tune in next month to see the latest
developments.
While Philips was coming home from
London, another director is coming home
to London. this London being London,
Ontario. Gordon McCall grew up in
Dorchester just outside of London but his
theatfe work has taken him to every other
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Gordon McCall.
corner of the country more than to his
home area. But this month he'll open the
show The Three Cuckolds at Centre Stage
in a return to his home turf. He returned
earlier this summer from Vancouver where
he also directed the same play and directed
His Own Boss at the Blyth Summer
Festival before moving on to London. A
pretty busy summer for the director who
spends his winter as an instructor at
Queen's University, Kingston.
It was like old times for some Western
Ontario radio listeners early this summer
when a familiar voice showed up on the
airwaves but from an unfamiliar station.
Jim Swan who for so many years was the
early morning man on CKNX radio in
Wingham was back at his old post only for
CFPL in London for a two week stint. It was
during the summer break from his regular
morning television program Morningbreak
on CFPL television.
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