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Canadian folk musician Gordon Lightfoot played to a crowd of 2,800 at the Essar Centre in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., on Saturday.
Rachele Labrecque - Sault Star
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Canadian icon plays Essar Centre
An animated Gordon Lightfoot performed more than two dozen songs from his 40-plus year career at Essar Centre Saturday.
He reached back to his very first album, 1965's Lightfoot, for Ribbon of Darkness and played a handful of tracks from two discs from the 1990s (Restless and Waiting for You from 1993's Restless and the title track from 1998's A Painter Passing Through).
The Orillia native didn't include any material from his most recent effort, 2004's Harmony.
Lightfoot cracked jokes, made several references to his two failed marriages, telling the audience of about 3,000 his first wife, Brita, "was the best one of the whole lot."
Lightfoot's setlist
Cotton Jenny
Carefree Highway
Sea of Tranquility
Never Too Close
In My Fashion
A Painter Passing Through
Rainy Day People
Shadows
Beautiful
Watchman's Gone
Ribbon of Darkness
Sundown
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
-Intermission-
Triangle
Hangdog Hotel Room
Restless
Minstrel of the Dawn
Waiting for You
If Children Had Wings
Don Quixote
Baby Step Back
Canadian Railroad Trilogy
-Encore-
Song for a Winter's Night
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