The record, 31 juillet 2009, Supplément 1

Weekly Guide to Arts & Entertainment in the Eastern Townships ROBERT RODI INSIDE Pick of thelit-ter-ature seePage 4 , Nt ••.N INSIDE Words & Music seePage 2 _______J THE RECORD, July 31 - August 6, 2009 “Mommy, Me Too Piano?” By Zachary-Cy Vanasse Fresh off her appearance at this summer’s Montreal Jazz Festival, multilanguage singer and pianist Florence K is now coming to Magog’s Le Vieux Clocher.As Florence K tells it, music has been a part of her life from the day she was bom.Her musical parents, her mother an opera singer and her father a guitarist, had her surrounded by music in her earliest days, and at the age of just three she asked her mother, who was a piano teacher, “Mommy, me too piano?” At just six-years-old she made her television debut playing Brahms lullaby on Radio-Canada’s “Démons du Midi.” She continued to play piano through her childhood and into her teen years; she turned to classical singing in the latter part of the 1990’s.While studying for her DEC in Modem Languages and Communications, the young musician took the opportunity to learn a variety of languages, studying Italian, Spanish, German, Arabic and Portuguese.The melding of her new knowledge of world languages and her new-found love of singing helped create the diverse songscape she now performs.Her love of languages and the cultures of the world grew even more thanks in large part to a singing role on the European Tour of Night at the Proms, which starred her mother Natalie Choquette as well as others accompanied by a symphony orchestra.The tour included stadium performances in Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark and Switzerland.Cont’d on Page 4 COURTESY FLORENCE K Florence K Country Connection • CIDI’s Latest • Movie Listings 70% New Canadian Releases Country, Folk, Jazz, Pop and more Local Regional and World News Updates Weather and Sports coverage Timely Interviews, Local Artists Programs serving our community Community Radio CJMQ 88.9 FM Have you listened to us lately?Now at 2000 Watts! 819-822-1838 or 819-570-2094 Your Home on the FM dial CJMQ 88.9 FM At Home, At work In the car, On the go Tune us in 88.9 FM Listen Live www.cima.fm Now at 184 Queen Street Lennoxville ___________________cjmqnewsfl)yahoo.ca iTHEi page 2 July 31 - August 6, 2009 RECORD -—- TALK — Weekend With a Country Flavour On August 1 and 2, the Louis S.St.Laurent National Historic Site of Canada and its co-operating association present in collaboration with the municipality of Compton, for the eighth consecutive year, Weekend with a Country Flavor.This gastronomic heritage experience takes place on Saturday and Sunday between 11 a.m.and 5 p.m., under two separate tents in the St-Laurent family’s magnificent garden.Visitors are to savour tidbits prepared by regional chefs and producers.A host of culinary experiences is available, including: home-smoked Les Bobines trout boat with Comtomme cheese garlic mayonnaise and Thai basil; homemade lamb and duck rillettes with grilled walnuts and homemade rhubarb chutney, Compton tomato and caramelized onion tartlet, au gratin with mozzarella from Coati-cook; semi-smoked mini-brochettes of Pont Couvert chicken with lime, ginger and red curry: barbecue-grilled meat from the region; duck Bourguignon; wild boar sausage.Lavender profiteroles and several other little treats are also offered.COURTESY LOUIS S.ST.LAURENT NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE OF CANADA Food Lovers at last year’s festival enjoyed culinary styles from all over the world F—w,,w—i Lw* v * SS**-* iflggg- j*/**L, ^ M * ».tha i m % V MyDac/dy Matters Became- WWW^ÎJŸj Words and Music -Ç IftÉMl in .COURTESY COURTESY COURTESY Amos Joannides Ian Ferrier By Kelly McDevitt .rickets are still available for words and Music, Saturday’s musical contribution to the Let-A.ters From Knowlton event.The concert will take place a Galerie Bistro Carpe Diem on August 1 at 7 p.m.and will feature the musical and poetic talents of Sarah Biggs, Ian Ferrier and Amos Joannides.Sarah Biggs, a fifth-generation Town-shipper, lives in West Brome with her husband and two daughters.Her second album of original songs.Rising Sign, was released in 2007 and she is working on a third.“My intention is to reflect Sarah Biggs my Eastern Townships roots, to capture that Appalachian foothills feel,” Biggs says of her music.“This is my heart’s home.” To hear samples of her music visit her website http://sarahbiggs.ca.Ian Ferrier, poet and musician, is well known across Canada, Europe and in New York on the performance literature scene.He co-founded the poetry/music label Wired on Words which won a Standard Broadcasting Award in its first year.Ferrier currently resides in Montreal where he hosts a monthly Words and Music literature series, now in its ninth year.He is also a member and past president of the Quebec Writers’ Federation.For more information on Ian Ferrier visit his websites http://ianferrier.com and http://mysapce.com/pharmakinmtl or e-mail at poets@wiredonwords.com.Amos Joannides is a former Massey-Vanier student who spent his formative years in the Townships.His musical style included pop and hip-hop influences, as well as folk and flamenco.Joannides recorded his first album My Name is Amos with Westbrome Records.For more information or to hear tracks from his album visit his website www.amosj .com.Tickets for Words and Music are $10 and can be purchased at Brome Lake Books (450-242-2242), the Chamber of Commerce (450-242-2870) or at Lac Brome Town Hall (450-243-6111). RECORD TALK July 31 - August 6, 2009 page 3 Jacques Lecours: Our Newest Contributor at CIDI You Gotta Love it! By Maurice Singfield (with a little help from his friend) «