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Wednesday, June 20, 2001 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Rockin'at the WaterfrontFestival By Kym Funnell OWF PROGRAM EDITOR Festival-goers are promised a night to remember on Saturday, June 23 when Calgary native Jann Arden takes the mainstage at the Oakville Waterfront Festival. Bringing her heartwrenching tradition with her, this Female Artist of the Year is sure to heat up the night with some passionate favourites off her new album Blood Red Cherry and memorable clas sics like "Could I Be Your CM", 1 Would Die For You", or international hit "Insensitive". The stunning collection of songs on Happy? perfectly illustrate Arden's incompara ble knack for evoking pictures through words. After the resounding success of her 1997 album Happy?, Jann summed herself up in an inter view. 'Tm down to earth, not at all starstruck. I'm a good friend to my friends. At heart Tmjust a small-town girl singing about simple sentiment". With a twist of her infamous melan choly on the side, of course. This trademark Arden attitude proves infallible with Blood Red Cherry. As the title so provocatively suggests, her latest album is about inno cence and passion, virtue and romance, deliciously wicked humour and - if you must know - lust This multi-Juno award winning artist is probably best known for her emotional charged lyrics on stage and deadpan humour off. A per fect illustration is how she's been known to open shows in the past "We're going to be doing various songs about despair, heartbreak and lone liness. We'll be moving on to guilt later, so feel free to slump against the person next to you." "Sleepless", the first sin gle from Blood Red Cherry, is classic Arden; a tender yet upbeat song that contrasts a moment of intimacy with big, old world swirling just outside the door. The exquis ite ballad "Mend" is an achingly beautiful duet of forgiveness with Blue Rodeo's Jim Cuddy. A very different sentiment is deliv ered in the swift tempo and sing-song melody of "Janeen", a hilarious, catty ditty which is not, Arden asserts, about a specific person: "I laughed the whole way through writing that `She'll poke your eyes out, she'll tear your heart apart'. It's so true about people you went to high school with or people in the office Everyone knows a Janeen." "I'm not driven by my ego as much as I am by my spirit," Arden explains. "I think ego can destroy good things because it gives you mixed messages. Ego will tell you you're too fat or too ugly. But if you let your spirit speak for you it's much gen tler. Spirit will tell you that you're beautiful, that you have cute little hands and that songs can make you feel good in your heart." Jann Arden will be perform ing on the mainstage at Coronation Park on Saturday, June 23, at 8:00 p m Admission is free with a Waterfront button, which can purchased for $8 ahead of time at community banks. Petro-Canada stations, and Canada Post outlets. For information on the Waterfront Festival visit www.oakvillefestival.com. While probably most recog nized for his unorthodox style of playing the blues, Jeff Healey is sure to treat a capti vated crowd to some classic jazz and rock on Friday, June 22 as he takes the mainstage at 8:00 p.m. - although keep your ears tuned for some rewed-up riffs off his new album. Get Me Some. Blind since age one due to eye cancer, Healey picked up his first guitar at three years old. And it was at that young age he patented a revolutionary technique that went on to become a trademark of his per formance - playing the guitar flat on his lap. By the age of six he was playing and singing in public, and by his mid-teens recognized as a "musical prodi hits such as "Angel Eyes" and "See the Light" won't be neglected in his show. The Jeff Healey Band's performance will be a spec tacular way to commence this year's festival, so be sure to catch them on the mainstage at Coronation Park at 8:00 p.m. For information on the Waterfront Festival, visit www.oakvillefestival.com. Kim Mitchell, Canadian musician and Sarnia native, will be delighting Oakville audiences with a per formance of the old and new at the Waterfront Festival this June. "It's a cross-section of everything," says Mitchell of his line-up for the festival, adding that he gets suggestions for his sets from fans on the Internet. Originally a mem ber of the early 1970s band Max Webster. Mitchell heard his call to solo work in the early 1980s, producing such best-selling albums as 'Shakin' Like a Human Being' (1986), which sold triple-platinum and won two Juno Awards. Despite his success in the studio, Mitchell continued his outdoor gigs across the country. "I love playing out doors," says Mitchell, who now resides in Toronto, and hopes the weather will hold out for his concert. In 1989, Mitchell recorded his album 'Rockland' in Los Angeles, which again won Mitchell a Juno Award for 'Male Vocalist Of The Year.' In November 1999, Mitchell recorded his latest solo album, 'Kimosabe', written with Andy Curran. "I like musicians that have their own stamp...guys who have pioneered their own way. As soon as you hear the first two mea sures, you know it's them," states Mitchell, adding that there is no one artist who has directly influenced his music. "Living life itself is where the music comes from." Mitchell's audience is usually comprised of adults in the 35 and over crowd, but he is always surprised to see a few teenagers up front. For his Waterfront performance, Mitchell will be including songs from his old and recent albums, as well as a Stevie Wonder song performed by his key board player. "Because you've done this for a long time, you have to change things up," quips Mitchell. And Mitchell's advice to aspiring Canadian musicians? "My attitude is, don't go into music because you want to be famous...do it because you love playing music. Not everyone's here to make their mil lion and be Bryan Adams," he says, emphasizing that whether on a stage or in a basement, the adrenaline of 'jamming' with a group of musicians is the same. Mitchell will be per forming on Friday, June 22nd at 8 p.m. at the Coronation Park mainstage. Mitchell's CD's will be on "sale after the show. Custom ized G ift Baskets & G ift W are 1Hand Painted Ceramic Tiles ' Wide variety of Black, Green, Herbal & Flavoured Teas ' Selection of Beautiful Candles Food &c Sweets for the Gourmet | Baby Shower Gifts 1Custom Gift Baskets for all Occasions, Personal and Corporate For information on where to purchase a Waterfront button, surf to www.oakvillefestival.com. 905 465-0979 2 4 6 4 L ak esh ore R d . W ., (at Bronte Rd.) g y " - "I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and as a vocalist, par ticularly thejazz and pop of the early 20th Century," Healey says. "I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business." It wasn't long before Healey's talent came to the attention of one of blues musics' elder statesmen, Albert Collins. Healey went on to share a bill with Collins at Toronto's Albert's Hall. Healey later shared the same stage with Stevie Ray Vaughan, and then B.B. King at Vancouver Expo '86. 'Tve been very fortunate to have met a lot of those people," Healey says. "And certainly any time I get a chance to even hear B.B. King, let alone sit in with the band, I enjoy that probably more than anything." It was during this period of playing Sunday night jam ses sions at Grossman's Tavem in Toronto that Healey met drummer Tom Stephen and bassist Joe Rockman, and The Jeff Healey Band was bom. It wasn't long before this talented trio came out with their first album, See the Light in 1988, with the Billboard 100 Top 5 ranking "Angel Eyes". The Road House Soundtrack followed in 1989, Hell to Pay was on its heels in 1990. Feel This in 1992, and then Cover to Cover in 1995. It was then, for the first time, that The Jeff Healey Band took a break and reaped the rewards of a suc cessful career for a few years. Of course Healey couldn't lay idle for five years. This Toronto guitarist found him self in front of television cam eras in an episode of Baywatch Nights, spinning jazz melodies on his own radio show for CBC (My Kinda Jazz) and managing his own company (Forte Records and Productions - signing Amanda Marshall). Then five years latei in March of 2000, fans celebrated the release of The Jeff Healey Band's new album, Get Me Some. Get Me Some has all the raw, lurid force its title sug gests. With the screaming harp of "Which One" and the slow molten groove of "Hey Hey", Healey also covers the Diane Warren-penned "I Tried" - to stunning effect. His supple vocals lend songs like "I Should Have Told You" and "Love is the Answer" a melan choly, keening quality, traits that have come to define Healey's incomparable style. Though he obviously wants to familiarize his crowd with his new recording, Healey says v FRESH PAINT SELLS HOMES , Listing your home or updating it, paint is one of the most cost effective ways to spruce up! Summer's here Book your Exterior NOW! Jeff Healey of The Jeff Healey Band shown here will be performing on the mainstage at Coronation Park at this years Waterfront Festival. Call Oakville's Pickiest Painter! 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See dealer for full details and purchase option. Offer ends June 30, 2001. Supplies are limited. ©Volkswagen 2001. Oakville Volkswagen 557 Kerr Street (South of the q e w ), Oakville 905 844-3285 HALTON REGIO N This promises to be another great year for the Oakville Waterfront Festival. I do hope that you, your family and friends will plan to take part as it certainly is the place to be in Oakville this weekend! On behalf of Halton Region, I'd like to thank the organizers and volunteers who have worked so hard to make this event successful year after year. The Oakville Waterfront Festival is a fine example of the community spirit that abounds within Halton and makes this such a great place to live. BONNIE BROWN M em ber of Parliam ent Oakville House of Commons Canada "As your representative in Ottawa, I encourage you to contact me with your federal concerns. " Constituency Office 2421 Marine Drive Oakville, Ontario, L6L 1C6 Tel: (905)827-2077 Fax: (905) 827-7516 Parliamentary Office Room 147, Confederation Bldg. House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0A6 Tel: (613)995-4014 Fax: (613) 992-0520 Joyce SayoLine, Regional Chairman / ,, · , I encourage everyone to take part in this wonderful event you'll see that there truly is something planned for everyone! 1151 B ron te R o ad · O akville · O n tario · L6M 3L1 9 0 5 -8 2 5 -6 0 0 0 · Toll free: 1 -866-4H A L T O N (1 -8 6 6 -4 4 2 -5 8 6 6 ) w w w .re g io n .h a lto n .o n .c a