January
07, 2005
Celebrating
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Seventeen Canadian artists are honouring Gordon
Lightfoot with an evening of his songs
By
Matthew van Dongen / St. Catharine’s Standard
When the Gordon Lightfoot tribute rolls into town, J.P.
Cormier would love to see the legendary folk singer come
out for a show. Then again, maybe he wouldn’t.
“I’ve
been thinking about that a lot,” said Cormier, himself
a celebrated Canadian instrumentalist and singer.
“I
hope (Lightfoot) comes – but I don’t want to
know, not until after the fact.”
“If
I know he’s in the audience, I’ll probably freeze,
it’s that scary. I mean, that’s like trying
to copy a painting from daVinci – in front of him.”
Cormier
is just one of 17 Canadian artists who will honour Lightfoot
in song in The Way We Feel: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot,
which comes to Brock University January 12.
But
on a tour full of Lightfoot fans, the Cape Breton native
is easily the most fervent. “I’ve dreamed about
doing this,” said Cormier, who is releasing his own
Lightfoot tribute album, The Long River, to coincide with
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