Vaudeville in the Square

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34097, 8 March 1976, Page 18

Vaudeville in the Square

/ Beginning today, I Cathedral Square will have open-air vaudeville from mid-dav to 2 p.m. ’ every week-day during ’ the festival. The organi isers of last year’s Square festivities have ' again assembled the f city’s folk groups, and , there will he everything i from blue-grass to pup- - petry. ? The old shearing shed ■ sounds, bush ballads and 1 blues are absent only two ■ 'days of the 10. The Banks Peninsula Folk Club — orI ganiser of the activities—-and the Canterburv Crutchinw Bush and Ceileidh Band will : hold the floor. ' Frank Povah, who will ;sing and recite at the club. Jis a traditional blues singer with a 13-year reputation in Australia and New Zealand The Ceileidh Band comes | equipped with all the bush I instruments — fiddle and! goose, banjo and mandolin, dulcimer, lagerphones,! spoons, and castanets. It ;should have a rousing reception from folk fans. The Busker will be wan-j dering around with guitar and harmonica during the j festival. | The local punneteer, Mr G ' F. Lonsdale, will put on two Punch and Judv shows, and: the Maggie Burke dance’"' I will give three selections of expressionist dancing. A Waikato pon band. Red: Hot Peppers, has been diver-1 ■ ted in transit and will gyrate, with Butler and Watchdog.! [two Christchurch bands, ini ’a|

, I two-hour concert on Wednes--1 day. , To cover the full field, the ' Salvation Army band, the St •i Andrew’s Highland Pipe I'Band, and the Mairehau High - School Symphonic Band. 5 which toured to Australia , last-year, will show what they can do. Jazz will have its place— I Glide, a Christchurch group, t and the Southern Jazzmen

s-|will have three performances! during the two weeks. e There will be jigs and jogs' ■t ■ from the Irish Society, and elfolk fare and sword dancing! hi from the Royal Scottish ' [.Country Dance Society. Te a Kotahitanga Concert Party: yiwill perform. , There will be a fencing dis.: -(play (not with battens, but >, with rapiers) bv the Cantern bury Fencing Club, and in

ilmilder vein Heather Mitchell, the Christchurch singer and' ; accordion player, will enter-j I! tain. j Under cover, in Christ-’ I'Cathedral. the six Christ- ! church Community Choirs will sing folk songs, opera, modern compositions. Negro spirituals, and sacred nieces. The Canterbury Burns Club will sing and recite the poetry of Robert Burns, and l he, Christchurch Dickens Fellow- 1 .ship will read excerpts from (Charles Dickens. The Wizard will compere ' events.