[BC_Labour_E-NEWS] Strike Up The Band! 50 Years of Making Trouble For All The Right Reasons

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Strike Up The Band!
50 Years of Making Trouble For All The Right Reasons 



Date: Thursday, November 30, 2006 Time: 8 pm 
Venue: The Orpheum Theatre Admission: $35 (plus gst & service charges) 
Tickets:604.231.7535 or www.ticketstonight.ca
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The BC Federation of Labour celebrates its 50th anniversary Thursday,
November 30, 2006, with a star-studded gala at the Orpheum Theatre,
produced for the Federation by the Vancouver Folk Music Festival. 

The gala concert will be a highlight of the Federation's 50th Annual
Convention, taking place November 27 through December 1, 2006, at the
Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre. The theme of the anniversary
convention is "A Proud History. A Strong Future." 

Strike Up The Band! will feature blues icon Jim Byrnes, African-American
roots music celebrity Linda Tillery with Vancouver's Universal Gospel
Choir, and Po'Girls member Allison Russell. Steve Dawson will lead the
Union All Star Band, assembled for the occasion, and a performance by
Tons of Fun University will add a comedic note to the evening's
entertainment. Joe Keithley will emcee the event. 

"The link between folk music and the trade union movement is as old as
the drive to organize," notes Vancouver Folk Music Festival artistic
director Dugg Simpson, who has programmed the gala evening. "Call them
rebel songs, slave songs, songs of freedom or songs of protest, from
1871's The Internationale through 1930's The Hungry Mile to this
summer's rallying cry Yell Fire by Michael Franti and Spearhead, music
and song have been integral to the dignity of labour." 

Tickets to Strike Up The Band! Are $35 (plus gst and service charges)
and are available by phone at 604.231.7535 and online at 
www.ticketstonight.ca <http://www.ticketstonight.ca/> . 


 

UFCW Local 120B

	
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