Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 17, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Books Tim Wynne Joness new novel full of twists for Young adults music the so performed solidly in their season debut but their Reading of Tchaikovsky lacked spontaneity Winnipeg free press Elizabeth Holland 76977234 email d1 Sunda entertainment More actors moving behind the camera historic buildings speak out a 1 Pacino is one of the Many Zvac tors turned directors who screened their movies at the Toronto International film fes see Page d2 a new Madoc Manitoba a Lbook turns up the volume on what some of the Best build Ings have to say for see Page d4 music at work for children of War record crowd rocks the Forks with the hiphop and Hope by Bart Ley Kives Winnipeg has seen its fair share of amazing outdoor but nothing like what went Down yesterday at the in an amazing the War child Canada concert attracted the largest Spectator audience in Winnipeg history according to police and promoter estimates thanks to uncharacteristically Balmy september the presence of Canadas biggest Rock band and the Chance to take part in a truly Noble by 6 War child volunteers collected approximately not including Concession sales and corporate sponsor ship toward improving the lives of War affected Chil Dren the Money was donated by unbaked and but incredibly Happy concert goers who crammed themselves like Tokyo sub Way com Muters into the Claustrophobic confines of the Forks festival pressed up against fences and spilled out into parking Erogies the biggest of was the tragically the Rock band that More popular than Beer and nil hockey combined in most parts of this introduced by foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy As one of the greatest ambassadors for the hip took the stage at and delivered a sneak pre View of an upcoming National tour slated to begin next the hip performed As a seven piece with Toronto Singer Kate Fenner and keyboardist Chris Brown joining the regulars on hip guitarist Paul front Man Gord bassist Gord sin Clair and guitarist Bob Baker lined up across the front of the landscaped with Brown and drummer Johnny Fay in the Lloyd Axworthy introduces the hip concert review War child Canada the Forks festival Park september 16 the larger barely changed the nature of the hips with the notable exception of accurately reproducing Tiger the the Long Artsy piece from the bands latest the 110minute set emphasized songs from the new album and its immediate phantom Power my music at putting Lake fever and fireworks were All per formed Early older hits such As wheat Kings and new Orleans is sinking arrived toward the end of the while at the Hundredth Little Bones and phantom Powers some things on appeared during two dressed in a Green shirt and Brown suit Downie did his usual on stage writhing and composed a poem about War affected deliver ing it in stages Between we cant Stop War is the death of imagination and imagination has Many Downie children have no enemies and Chil Dren Are the birth of earlier in the the sprawling crowd was treated to a diverse array of pop music sounds in addition to the Angelique a Paris based Singer originally from the West african nation of provided the concert with its world music Compo nent hybridized african the perfect sound for a lat summer appearing with a seven piece band Percus Sion and two colourful backup singers the 40yearold firebrand performed tunes from her two most Angelique Kiddo provided an International flavour with her african photos by Ruth free press Gord Downie leads rockers the tragically hip through a 110minute set of old hits and new recent fifa and drawing dancers from the crowd to the stage for her final before Winnipeg reigning pop music superstar took the stage amid the screams of adoring introduced by mayor Glen Murray As my Friend Chantal the 27yearold Juno award Winner sat Down at a piano and used her powerful lungs to Belt out hits like before dear life and surround dressed simply in a White shirt and festive print Kre Liazuk performed with a full band that included Winnipeg Ger Luke Doucet on Gui she was clearly moved by the presence of so Many people at the War child Benefit never mind the importance of the there Are soldiers in the world that Are eight years old or that makes me she said before launching into a song she wrote specifically for yesterdays i wrote this song because of the Way this made me Kre Liazuk ended her set with an audience participation ver Sion of leaving on a Jet backed by a chorus of win you Guys Are she thanks for sharing this with fresh off a plane from hiphop my Maestro formerly known As Maestro fresh Wes played the first full set of the joined by a do and two members of Toronto bag of a world yesterdays concert attracted a record crowd of to the Champion break dancing its hotter Here than in Toronto the gregarious rapper i didst expect i came with my Wool sweater and All my Winter cloth these eyes in a 4dminute the energetic rapper shouted out tunes from his upcoming fifth Ever and older hits like let your Back Bone slide and stick to your the latter which is based on the Melody from the guess who these earned the loudest applause from the Winnipeg dressed All in Brandon country Singer Amanda Stott opened the show with a bilingual rendition of 0 she was followed by Winnipeg childrens entertainer Fred who was joined on stage by his daughter Danica and a Host of local musicians in a we Are the world style in the Smoky Haze of the Early Penners group performed the first song of the illumine a tune composed by fellow Winnipeg Ger Jaime Oliviero specifically for the War child Canada con in the it want Clear if the people at yesterdays concert truly grasped the importance of the but the Bottom line both financially and emotionally was regardless of How much humanitarian awareness was ;