Lightfoot to perform at St. Paul's
By Teviah Moro
Local News - Thursday, June 14, 2007 Updated @ 11:09:58 AM
He’s headlining the Mariposa Folk Festival this year.
But fans have the chance to listen to Orillia-born folk hero Gordon Lightfoot when he joins St. Paul’s United Church choir for this Sunday’s service.
“He said he’d like to come and sing a service,” Rachael Howes, program and people co-ordinator at the Peter Street church, said Thursday.
“He’s going to sit with the choir.
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Lightfoot, who nurtured his talents with the church choir as a boy, will sing two solos during the 10:30 a.m. service, to which everyone is welcome.
One song Howes has heard he’ll perform is “Sit Down Young Stranger,” a tune from his 1970 album “If You Could Read My Mind.”
Lightfoot will also chat with Rev. Karen Hilfman Millson during the service’s reflection time, which this Sunday is called “Celebrating Creativity.”
The church can hold about 500 people.The service is free and open to the general public.
“We are expecting quite a crowd,” Howes said.
Lightfoot’s last performance at St. Paul’s in December 2005 opened up a treasure trove of memories for a packed audience as he reminisced about his youth in Orillia.
“I like to remember where it is that I come from,” he told The Packet & Times after about two hours of stories and songs, including “If You Could Read My Mind”, “Sundown” and “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.”
Since then, Lightfoot and Hilfman Millson have kept in touch, Howes said.
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