It's the 17th year for the 3-day music festival - July 8 - 10
Strict policy on recycling and reusing is very important part of Ingersoll event
By
Mark Schadenberg
David
Clayton-Thomas will be the headline act at the 17th Canterbury Folk
Festival in Ingersoll this year, but the 3-day music event organizing committee
continues to makes headlines in other areas as well, including remarkable recycling
efforts.
The
Clayton-Thomas name will be added to among the many Canadian recording stars
who have appeared at the Ingersoll festival over the years.
Canterbury
this year is Friday, July 8 to Sunday, July 10, and Clayton-Thomas will be on
the main stage on the Sunday at about 3 p.m. to wrap up the FREE festival.
The
Yvonne Mott Memorial Park is your desired destination – a park very close to
Ingersoll’s downtown and amenities – and easy to find if you’re arriving via
the 401.
Admission
is FREE.
Clayton-Thomas,
74, became a music legend in the late 1960’s and well into the 1970’s on both
sides of the border with Blood, Sweat & Tears. The band kept its fans very happy
with hits like Spinning Wheel, Lisa Listen To Me, You're The One, Hi-De-Ho, And When I Die,
Ride Captain Ride, and You’ve Made Me So Very Happy. While some of their radio
regular tunes were written by outsiders from Motown, Laura Nyro or even Carole
King, much of their library was written by Clayton-Thomas and his pals.
The
Blood, Sweat & Tears style or genre could be in the same category as early
Chicago hits as the group combined a huge influence on a horn section to their
music. I’ve never considered the jazz / rock melding as a specific sound, but I
also enjoy Steely Dan from that particular ‘sound’.
Clayton-Thomas,
who was given a well-deserved Canadian Walk Of Fame accolade in 2010 and was
inducted into the Juno Awards Hall of Fame back in 1996, has performed and
toured as a mostly solo artist (with a 9-person backup band) for many years and
with more than 10 albums.
He
is also not unique in the fact that Clayton-Thomas is an immigrant to Canada as
he is originally from England. I think of Johnny Reid (Scotland), Alan Frew
(Scotland) of Glass Tiger, and Beverley Mahood (Ireland) in this placement.
MORE
PERFORMERS
The Canterbury Festival website must be checked out if you plan on attending as it notes the approximate stage time of each singer / band.
The Canterbury Festival website must be checked out if you plan on attending as it notes the approximate stage time of each singer / band.
Some
of the other names to watch for (listen to) include: The Mudmen, Tia McGraff,
Corduroy Road, Graham Wardrop, Safe As Milk (Excellent local band with Bob Breen
and his buddies), Linda Simpson-Taylor (from Magna Carta fame), Jay Semko
(Remember the Northern Pikes), and New Cumberland.
A
fun aspect of Canterbury is the entertainment between the performers on
Saturday as singer / comedian / storyteller / class clown Magoo grabs your
attention while a stage crew might be busy with a sound check or placing a
hi-hat in its designated spot in the kit.
Keep
in mind one of the reasons this event is free is thanks to a large amount of
sponsorship (Some listed: Bell-Camp Manufacturing, ERTH Corporation, Your
Independent Grocer, TD Canada Trust, Heart FM, Elmhurst Inn, Anderson’s
Appliances and the local Kiwanis Club), but also a volunteer committee which
includes my pal Teresa Scherle, along with Brenda Boswell, Ian and Paulette
Robertson, Cathy Mott, Scott Gillies (Ingersoll museum curator), Carolin
French, and Mayor Ted Comiskey. The Ingersoll mayor, by the way, is also a
performer.
Picture of Tia McGraff and Ted Comiskey as posted on Tia's website
Besides
the music, the food court and a beer garden, the Canterbury festival also
includes a giant fundraising penny sale, music workshops on the Saturday, youth dance performers on the Saturday, arts
and crafts all weekend, and a pig roast on the Friday at 5 p.m. (Tickets are just $12 for
the swine and wine fest)
For
a full lineup of all performers and the volunteer committee and sponsors, see: www.canterburyfolkfestival.on.ca
By
the way, the event’s past performers include an alumni roster of Garth Hudson
(2015), Ian Thomas, Valdy, Marc Jordan, Murray McLaughlin, Natalie MacMaster,
Ashley MacIsaac, and Gary Fjelgaard,
Reduce,
Reuse, Recycling
The
Canterbury festival is unique as it strives to a goal of zero garbage (Nothing
directed to a landfill) and the key was to putting together a system in place
of volunteers that wash all the utensils and plates from the food court so they
can be used again and again.
I
have always felt uneasy at large people-gathering places as it almost becomes
impossible to properly separate plastics, pop cans and paper products. I fully
understand that if you have a small piece of cardboard lathered with gravy from
a poutine that you can’t really recycle that at a park. At the Canada Day
fireworks in Woodstock, the Lions Club will surprisingly recycle quite a
quantity at our beer garden.
At
the Canterbury Folk Festival, they must be applauded for their strict adherence
to their own policy about recycling. This plan truly coincides with Mayor Ted
Comiskey’s effort to keep the metro Toronto dump out of Oxford County in the
Centreville / Southwest Oxford area in the former Carmeuse lime mining pit.
With
the theme of ‘transition to less waste’ with more details at www.ttlw.org,
the organizing committee deserves a standing ovation, as you clap for the
performers too.
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