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Sree Tom Connors
hits the road again.

By CasNews Staff

Canadian country singer Stompin’
Tom Connors, who hasn’t toured in
15 years, will be at the Cominco
Arena in Trail May 23 as part of a
coast-to-coast tour set for the spring,
summer and fall of this year.

Connors’ name is synonymous with

Canadian history and folklore and his
unique ability to immortalize people,
places or happenings in song has
allowed him to carve out a niche that
is now his own private musical
territory, a news release says.

“*I guess a lot of folks will be won-
dering why I am hitting the road
again,’’ Connors says in the release.
“Well, it’s a lot of things really. The
requests for Stompin’ Tom to appear
at various functions have increased
€ach passing year.

“Why, the past couple of years I
must have had over 100 inquiries for
Prince Eward. Island alone,” he says,
“And they came from everybody,
from people having backyard do’s to
big and small promoters all over
Canada. If there are that many wan-
ting Stompin’ Tom in PEI, it stands
to reason that there must bé a heck of
a lot in the rest of the country."”

His most recent recording is Fiddle
and Song which includes his tribute to
k.d. lang, titled Lady k.d. lang.

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Stompin’ Tom Connors is back on the road again after a 15- year
absence. He performs in Trail at the Cominco Arena May 23.

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He refused to tour in support of
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exhibit with jazz artist Miles Davis in
Los Angeles.

The 29 portraits depict the singer-
songwriter’s family and friends. The
facial expressions created by his
muted brush strokes are always sad
and convey the same disillusionment
found in his musical anthems about
the nation’s heartland and its farm
crisis.

“I think you can say much more in

studio and he could afford to spend
much of the last year in an art studio
he had built next to his home near
Bloomington.

He-and his wife, Vicky, are in the
middie of a divorce. The’yre the
parents of Teddi Joe, 8, and Justice,
4, who are living with their mother.

Farm Aid IV concert in Indianapolis
on_-March-7.. The-rousing- ovation -he
received and his energetic three-song
performance were far removed from
the solitude of a blank canvas.

Mellencamp organized the first
Farm Aid back in 1984 with Willie
Nelson as a benefit for struggling
farmers.

“TI think people my age need to
start taking their position in the

seriously, and start
dealing with local problems within the
system,”™-he said-in-an interview. “I
don’t mean standing in the back rows
and throwing stuff, any coward cag

id. do that.

‘@ painting than you can in a stupid **

song,’ he said in an interview with
Rolling Stone magazine last year.
“Some days I start at seven o’clock
in the morning, and I paint until five,
eat dinner and come back and paint
till midnight. I don’t have to see
anybody. I don’t have to talk to
anybody. It’s better than sex for me.”*
However, Mellencamp’s wealth
hardly fits the stereotype of a
struggling artist. His albums have
sold-millions, he records in his own

music career is over, but it has taken
an extended vacation. His growing

discontent with pop stardom surfaced
in his last all Big Daddy.
“Never wantéd\o be no pop singer,

never wanted to write no pop songs,”
goes the bitter refrain of the hit single,
Pop Singer; which offers Mellen-
camp’s cynical view of today’s music
scene.

"We tried that in the "60s and it ~

didn’t work out too good. I mean to
take affirmative action, and to make
positive steps to change in a country
that needs to go through that right
now.”

But those who have worked with
Mellencamp say he’s serious about
painting, and that it isn’t merely a
hobby. Jan Royce travelled to
Mellencamp’s studio several times last
summer to help him learn oil
techniques.

Farewell planned for writer

A farewell tribute is planned for
West Kootenay writer Ernst
Havemann and his artist wife, Isabel,
May 19 at 8 p.m. at the SUB, 711-
10th St., in Nelson

Havemann, who was born in South

Africa, moved to BaJfowr in 1978. He“:

is the author of Bloodsong and Other
Stories of South Africa and a four-
time winner of the CBC literary.com-

petition. The Havemann’s have
decided to relocate to Australia to be
closer to their family, a news release
said.

A retirement hobby became a
second career after Havemann took
courses at the former David Thom-
pson University Centre in Nelson,
under such writers as Audrey Thomas
and Clark Blaise. His stories have ap-
peared—in—the Atlantic, — Saturday

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His work has been called chilling,
Spare and ironic, as well as possessing
great depth of feeling.

“I think of my stories as yarns that
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