Committee earns accolades for its waste-free initiative
By MARK SCHADENBERG
If you ask me, Ian Thomas is the most talented performer in
the Thomas family.
Dave Thomas became famous in SCTV comedy skits and through
his role in the movie Strange Brew and as half of the Bob & Doug duo. Doug MacKenzie and Bob (Rick Moranis) sang The Great White North, Take Off and
Twelve Days Of Christmas songs into Canada’s Top 20 of the music charts as novelty hits, but it’s
Ian Thomas who created an impressive library of albums and hit songs.
Ian Thomas performs Saturday at 8 p.m. at the
Canterbury Folk Festival in Ingersoll.
IAN THOMAS
Ian Thomas has a string of hits including Pilot, Hold On,
The Runner, Painted Ladies, Time Is The Keeper, Coming Home, Right Before Your
Eyes, Liars, Long Long Way, I Really Love You, and Strange Brew for his brother’s
movie soundtrack.
I have about 25 of his songs on my IPod.
Thomas was also a member of The Boomers, which received lots
of airplay with You’ve Got To Know and I Feel A Change.
More recently, Thomas has been a member of a Canadian quartet
along with the amazing Murray McLaughlin, plus alongside Cindy Church and Marc
Jordan. The touring group called Lunch At Allen’s would create a stage of musical story tellers. Marc Jordan's biggest solo hit was called Survival.
At the Canterbury Folk Festival, Ian Thomas will perform as
a solo artist after two legendary Canadian folk singers in Valdy and Gary Fjellgaard.
Since I grew up on Canadian radio hits, Ian Thomas is most
certainly one of my favourite male recording artists along with Burton
Cummings, Gordon Lightfoot and Roch Voisine.
The Thomas family is also practically local as they grew up in the Dundas / Hamilton area.
Ian Thomas, who is certainly also a Juno Awards winner, has
made money also a songwriter as many of his tracks have been recorded by the
likes of Chicago, America, Santana and even Bette Midler.
Look for me sitting in a lawn chair in Ingersoll on
Saturday night.
By the way, Dave Thomas and many of the Second City (SCTV) troupe were also
stars of a Toronto production of Godspell along with Victor Garber in the
mid-1970s. The TV show Grace Under Fire, plus movies like Coneheads, Stripes
and Beethoven’s Fifth all featured Dave Thomas.
TIA MCGRAFF
CANTERBURY FOLK
FESTIVAL
The annual Canterbury Folk Festival has 5 or 6 great
attributes – its lineup of performers, its setting, its free admission, its
craft collection, its food court and its zero waste policy. All the food you
purchase is served on plastic plates and everything is cleaned for a strict policy
of zero waste.
Check the website for further details on performance times
as the roster also includes Tia McGraff, Coig, Lennie Gallant, Red Moon Road, Dan
Stacey, Kiley Joe Masson, The Once, and certainly also Ingersoll mayor Ted
Comiskey and his acoustic guitar.
The three-day festival includes a Friday pig roast, a
Saturday breakfast, dancers like the Sim School from Embro of Highland Dancing,
Saturday performance workshops, and a beer garden.
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