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By John Stewart,
www.mississauga.com, Updated: January 16, 2013 9:24 AM
Musicians pay tribute to Gordon Lightfoot
Two Mississauga singer/songwriters will help pay tribute to Gordon Lightfoot this weekend.
Mississauga singer/songwriter Lori Cullen will pay tribute to Canadian music legend Gordon Lightfoot during an upcoming show at Hugh's Room in Toronto.
Two Mississauga singer/songwriters will help pay tribute to Gordon Lightfoot this weekend.
Matthew Barber, who grew up in the Mineola community and Lori Cullen, who grew up in Erindale Woodlands, are part of a three-night tribute to Lightfoot that will be held at Hugh's Room in Toronto.
This is the 11th year for the tribute that has become so popular, it now takes up three nights.
Cullen has been part of the show for nine years. Only folk singer Jory Nash, who also organizes the event, has been around it longer.
In an e-mail to The News , Cullen said Lightfoot's rootsy appeal definitely seems to have staying power.
"They keep selling out three nights at Hugh's for this tribute and the man himself did four nights at Massey Hall this past year, so something is still connecting," she said.
Cullen recorded Lightfoot's Pussywillows Cat-Tails on her Juno-nominated CD, Calling For Rain , and also covered Rainy Day People on her latest CD, That Certain Chartreuse , released in 2011.
Cullen will be performing If You Could Read My Mind and the 1980s Lightfoot hit, Anything For Love .
Barber, another Juno-nominated artist, usually records only his own compositions on his six CDs.
But he did record a cover of Lightfoot's Sundown as a special download to promote one of his recordings.
Also performing on the tribute show are Nash, John Wort Hannam, Jadea Kelly, Treasa Levasseur, Andy Maize, Josh Finlayson of the Skydiggers, Scarlett Jane, Kevin Fox and Russell deCarle.
Tickets cost $38.50 at the door.
I believe the photo is by James Dean.