LOCAL NEWS: RAISING FUNDS FOR REFUGEES ▼ A5
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Thursday, December 3, 2015 ▼ Volume 51 No. 49 ▼ www.clearwatertimes.com ▼ $1.35 Includes GST
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Natalie and Donnell host kitchen party in Clearwater Keith McNeill
It's a goal! Clearwater Thunder Hawk Kylie Blackmore celebrates after scoring a goal against Williams Lake during an Atoms tournament last weekend at the Sportsplex. For more about how the tourney turned out, see page A11 inside. Photo by Keith McNeill
Buy-Low celebrates first year (L-r) Karen Straub and Sandy Toma of Clearwater’s Buy-Low grocery celebrate the store’s first anniversary by giving away cake to Margo KadlunJones and Howie Jones. Free hot dogs and hamburgers were also available during the event, which was held Sunday. Photo by Keith McNeill
"It was an unbelievable performance. I just can’t believe that Clearwater could host musicians of such quality. We are very lucky." Those were the sort of comments heard over and over again following a concert at Dutch Lake Community Centre on Friday evening by Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy – two Canadian artists who are giving traditional fiddle-playing a whole new meaning and international profile. "Natalie MacMaster is absolutely one of the sweetest, most wonderful and most talented women I’ve ever met," said Billy Collins, the event’s host, as he introduced the evening’s main act. Collins should know. The part-time Clearwater resident formerly was MacMaster’s agent. "It’s not often we play in school gyms anymore," MacMaster said, "but this is where Natalie MacMaster amazes the audience with her fiddle playing during a concert at Dutch Lake Community Centre on Friday evening. For more about the event, see we grew up. We will photos on page A2 and story on page A3 inside. Photo by Keith McNeill not forget you. You’re wonderful ... who knew people to a wide variety of Aucoin on keyboards. Clearwater was so darn perfiddle music, from ancient jigs All four interspersed their fect?" to modern interpretations, music with step-dancing – an MacMaster and her husmuch of it improvised on the activity that most of the audiband, Donnell Leahy, treated spot. They were accompanied ence joined in by the end of the the sellout crowd of over 300 by Mac Morin and Rachael evening.
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