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February folk festival
The Winter Roots Music
Festival presents the best of
Vancouver's folk music as well
as the sounds of Africa, Japan,
China, the Caribbean and the
fabulous singing and songs of
England's Clive Gregson and
Christine Collister.
It starts tonight at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre.
The festival is such an
obvious idea - a terrific way to
thaw our cold spell and fill a
musical void - it's surprising
no one thought of it before.
However, it has taken last
year's formation of the Acoustic
Connection Music and Cultural
Society, which unites six
different folk organizations, to
co-ordinate and mobilize the
home-town folk community.
The Winter Roots Festival
takes place at both the VECC
(1895 Venables) and the WISE
Club (around the corner at
1882 Adanac). Tonight's bill
features Stephen Fearing,
Francis Xavier, Takeo
Yamashiro and the UBC Chinese
Music Ensemble.
Tomorrow the Cultch hosts
Bill Henderson, Shari Ulrich and
Roy (Bim) Forbes with John
McLachlan and Canadian Sky,
Sam Weis and the Shaman
Society Singers while the WISE
Club has Mango Dub in a late
show starting at 11 p.m.
Saturday begins with
mini-concerts and workshops at
the WISE Club from 11 in the
There are more workshops
morning. That evening at 7:30
p.m., Gregson and Collister are and performances at the WISE
Club on Sunday afternoon to 5
at the Cultch with Natural
p.m., when Spirit Of the West
Elements, African Heritage and
and square-dance troupe No
Eileen McGann. T. he late-night
Mean Feet take over.
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■ Vancouver band
Spirit Of
the West
will perform twice
on Saturday at the
Winter
Roots
Music Festival.

Spirit Of the West is back at
the WISE Club at 8 p.m. with
the Sunday Umbrella Band,
which will host an old-fashioned
Ceilidh.
For ticket and other
information, call 684-4022.
Coinciding with the Winter
Roots Festival is the creation of
the Scandalous Folk Club at
Scandals Restaurant, 127
Lonsdale in North Vancouver.
Every second and fourth
Monday, starting Feb. 13, the
restaurant will present a feature
act and an open stage for

willing folkies. First up for the
restaurant/club is Eileen
McGann.
From the Heart Of the Drive
is a fund-raiser for Co-op Radio
(102.7 FM) with Key Change
( seven-woman band) , Hot
House (jazz and torch songs
sung by Bolero Lava's Vanessa
Richards) , poets Maxine Gadd
and Gerry Gilbert, The IT Girls
(flapper music from the '20s),
singer Margo Izard, and
jazz-types Lunar Adventures. At
the Cultch (natch) from 7:30
p.m. For further information,

call Co-op Radio's Brent Kane
or Coreen Douglas at 684-8494.
Sunday, the Soft Rock Cafe
and CFOX are collaborating on
the first of a series of live
broadcasts. Live At the Soft
Rock Cafe is hosted by
Shannon Gunn and also
features Harris Van Berkel and
Dee Daniels. Taping is at 8 p.m.
If funk music with a sense of
humor is more your style, The
Groovaholics are headlining
their own Valentine's Dance,
Tuesday, at the Station Street
Arts Centre, 930 Station St.