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Big Sugar headlines Blues Fest Julie MacLellan staff reporter
Roots, rock, reggae, blues and soul are all on offer as the Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival returns to Deer Lake Park for its 15th year this summer. The festival, which is coming on Saturday, Aug. 9, has just announced its performance lineup – with some returning names and some first-timers, and young performers alongside veterans of the music world. Headlining this year is Big Sugar, who’ll churn out their unique blend of roots-rockreggae, soul and dub with double-neck guitars and flying dreadlocks. “Gordie Johnson and his Rasta brethren are well-known for their thundering live performances spiced with epic dub excursions that keep crowds grooving,” promises a press release. Also getting top billing is New Brunswick blues-folk guitarist Matt Andersen, who’ll take to the stage with the MelloTones. Bettye LaVette, a.k.a. “The Great Lady of Soul,” is joining the bill in celebration
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Singin’ the blues: Big Sugar bring their roots-rock-reggae-soul sounds to the stage as the headliners for this year’s Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival. The festival takes to the stage at Deer Lake Park on Saturday, Aug. 9.
of her 50-plus-year career in show business – which dates back to her first single My Man – He’s a Loving Man in the fall of 1962. It charted No. 7 on the R&B charts and put her on her first national tour with Ben E. King and another newcomer, Otis Redding.
Another powerful female singer is on board in the person of Imelda May, whose star has been rising since the release of her 2010 album Mayhem – and, with the anticipated release of Tribal this June, will only get higher. From the tradition of raw and primal
blues comes The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer, a.k.a. Shawn “The Harpoonist” Hall and Matthew “The Axe Murderer” Rogers, with their sack of harmonicas and mess of foot percussion and their sound Blues Page 8
City MLA says gov’t is destroying emails Jennifer Moreau staff reporter
Burnaby MLA Kathy Corrigan is raising concerns that the provincial government is using a loophole to delete documents and hide them from the public. Last Wednesday in the legislature, Corrigan, the NDP MLA for Burnaby-Deer Lake, pointed to an email connected to the
Burnaby Hospital controversy that came up missing after a non-profit association filed a freedom of information request looking for it. “This organization requested a series of damning emails exposing a B.C. Liberal strategy to manipulate the community consultation report on Burnaby Hospital for the political benefit of the B.C. Liberals,” Corrigan said in the legislature. “The asso-
ciation was told the records had been deleted because they were ‘transitory.’” According to the provincial government, transitory is a term that applies to some drafts and working materials, mainly ones that are temporarily useful and may be used to prepare a “more ongoing record.” However, drafts and working materials related to program delivery or operations, decision-making or government activity are
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