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The inaugural Lucknow's Music :in the Fields was a rousing success as people from the area and all over packed the Lucknow soccer fields this
past Saturday,Aug. 22; It's one of the biggest venues -that has come to the area in quite some time as people partied and danced throughout the
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Inaugural Music in the Fields was rousing success
BY GARIT REID
Sentinel Staff
The inaugural Lucknow's Music
in the Fields was a rousing success
as . people from the area and all
over packed the Lucknow soccer
fields this past Saturday. It's one of
the biggest venues that has come to
the area in quite some time as peo-
ple
eaple partied and danced throughout
the day and night.
It was a big venture ' for the
Lucknow Kinsmen, but they
believed a concert of this nature
would do well in this area. Co-
chair of the event Rick McMurray,
without knowing the actual ticket
sales of the day, was confident they
had surpassed their break even.
point for the days. He was also'
im with how everything
and everyone came together to
make it a fun day for the fans and
die artists. He also said it couldn't
have been• done without all of the
volunteer work from the commu-
nity, the solid work TNR produc-
tions has done over the past year
and just all of . the hard work and
advertising that went into making
the event a success.
"I'm very pleased. It's great to
see so many people out enjoying
themselves, enjoying the atmos-
phere and ultimately enjoying the
artists," said McMurray.
"Everyone looked like they had
fun, all the venues were well
attended and all the vendors are
busy selling food, which is all
great for the community of
Lucknow?'
People were up dancing from the
opening act_ all the way to the
exciting end with ' double - platinum
selling artist Johnny Reid. The
opening act The River Junction
Band from Lucan started things off
with some solid country flavour
and it started the ball rolling fol-
lowed with some old time country
licks from Mike Lynch.
After that the Trailer Park Boys,
Randy and Mr. Lahey started their
hosting duties with a colourful
variety act of funny songs and
anecdotes from the show. They
also announced all . of the artists
before they came on stage.
The females were the next to
perform as Alex J. Robinson was
well received by the crowd and the
women followed in succession by
Canadian Idol sixth place finisher
Tara Oram and singer-song-
writer/CMT personality Beverley
Mahood: They took to the stage
and wowed the crowed with their
booming voices and high tempo
performances.
After that it was the men's time
to shine as Juno , nominee George
Canyon pleased thecrowd with his
deep . and tender voice, which
drove the ladies crazy. Doc Walker
put on a fast paced show that had
people up from their chairs . danc-
ing and singing along. It all culmi-
nated at the end with Johnny Reid
who showed why his new album
has went double platinum. He got
right down with the crowd and was
dancing with them and letting
them sing with him as he belted
out his tunes. He blew the prover-
bial roof off the house.
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