Travelling the World with a Harp by LOIS SIEGEL Music Has Been a Part of Dudding’S Life for 40 Years
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January 16, 2009 Vol. 39 No. 1 Serving the Glebe community since 1973 FREE L IEGE S PHOTO: LOIS Janine Dudding (left) with Susan Sweeney Hermon Travelling the world with a harp BY LOIS SIEGEL Music has been a part of Dudding’s life for 40 years. She started playing “Acacia Lyra” is not your average harp and voice ensemble. Glebe resident guitar when she was 15, Celtic harp at 24, and bodhran at 53, proving that you Janine Dudding and Ottawa musician Susan Sweeney Hermon sing in English, are never too old to learn a new instrument. “I started in high school when French, Spanish, Irish and Welsh, accompanying themselves on Celtic harps we were all hippies, learning to play guitars, sing folk songs and ‘jam’ in the and guitars. The talented duo delighted a full-house audience with “Hint of stairwells,” she says. “I joined the Folk Guild at Winston Churchill Collegiate Winter” featuring Yuletide and other traditional songs from Scandinavia, the in Scarborough.” Scottish Hebrides, Brittany, Ireland and Spain at the National Arts Centre’s In her 20s, she took up the harp. “It’s actually like playing the piano, but Fourth Stage last Nov. 28. the strings make you feel a bit cross-eyed as they visually tend to get lost in Their performance included local guest musicians Greg T. Brown, fiddle; whatever is in your line of vision behind the harp,” Dudding explains. “This Duncan Gillis, bagpipes, bodhran, and whistle; Sheila White, flute, and Janine’s makes it hard to see them. It’s best not to sit near busy wallpaper or over a busy brother Bill Locke, on bass guitar and rain stick, a percussion instrument that or striped carpet; otherwise the strings start to blend in with the background. is made from a dried cactus branch that is hollowed out and filled with small Also, the Celtic harp has levers which need to be put up or down to set the key pebbles and closed at both ends. It makes the sound of falling rain when tilted; you want, but changing the key between songs or during a piece can be prob- originally the natives of Chile, in South America, used rain sticks in ceremon- lematic,” she adds. “If you miss one, you’ll play a wrong note. Taking the time ies to bring rain. to change keys between songs can interrupt the flow of a performance.” continued on page 24 Mark your calendars WHAT’S INSIDE January 19 Councillor Clive Doucet, press conference about the future of Lansdowne Park Abbotsford . 2 GCA . 9 10 a.m., Ottawa City Hall January 23-25 The Home Renovations Show Art . 23 GNAG............. 8 Exhibit Hall, Lansdowne Park www.caneastshows.com Books..........34-35 Good Old Days . 10-11 January 26-29 Ottawa Catholic Shool Board kindergarten registration www.ottawacatholicschools.ca Business . .16-17 Grapevine . 38-39 January 27 GCA meeting, 7:30 p.m., GCC All are welcome. 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Annemarie is the “poster child” for Abbotsford, between her involvement in the council as president, her weekly volunteer day for our Dayaway program and her status as convener of the Flea Market for the past two annual bazaars, not to mention the fun she has playing pool, mahjong and dancing the light fan- tastic, given half an opportunity. Her travels have taken her to South Africa and Tunisia of late with many a trip to visit and care for grandchildren in Kingston, Peterborough and Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Her presence, her smile, enthusiasm and overall good personality will be sadly missed by the many friends she has URNER T made at and through Abbotsford. Her fellow volunteers, friends and all of the staff send their love and infinite positive energy to Kingston with Annemarie, hoping to partially imitate what she has always given to us at Abbotsford. 2009 will bring new classes, new instructors and events as well as tried and PHOTO: LAURA true activities. Our fitness groups will continue to keep fit and have a good Dinner and dancing time doing it. It is always heartening to see our many groups “loiter” after an BY Pat Goyeche activity, sharing a coffee or meal in a relaxed atmosphere. Our luncheons will One feels compelled at this time of year to reflect on the year past. We start up again in January every Tuesday and Thursday at noon; please register have much to celebrate, some pause for thought and lots to look forward to at two working days in advance by calling 613-230-5730. The menus are set and Abbotsford. include soup, sandwich/main meal, dessert and coffee/tea, all for $7.00!! The “The Best Bazaar in the City” has surpassed our grandest hopes this past fall. general public is most welcome to attend these luncheons. When all the beans were counted,we hit and surpassed the $20,000 mark! This Mary Cook will be our special guest for the 1940s Ladies Luncheon to be is to-date our most profitable bazaar and we would like to thank the greater Ot- held on Thurs., Feb. 12. Ladies are encouraged to don apparel from the 1940s tawa community for its support. Our need to fundraise as a not-for-profit facil- to help honour and represent the women who worked in factories, volunteered ity is sometimes daunting, but this community event is a showcase for what we at home by “keeping the home fires burning” or indeed were overseas during can do when we work together. Thank you! WWII. Registration for this presentation and luncheon are necessary, so please Another highlight for 2008 would be our Christmas Dinner and Dance held contact Abbotsford for more information. Pick up the winter guide at Sun- on Dec. 18. We hosted forty folks (limited seating) from the community to a nyside Public Library or Abbotsford House and check out Abbotsford News on spectacular dinner sponsored by the Lord Lansdowne Retirement Residence. the Glebe Centre website: www.glebecentre.ca Chef Kevin Desormeaux outdid himself. Dinner was followed by The Swamp- water Jazz Band and the dance floor was duly scuffed as the band kept the willing and the talented dancers busy and wanting more. IN THE HEART OF THE GLEBE Richard Merrill Haney, Ph.D. (Counselling & Mediation) “You are your dreams...limited only by your fears.” • Individual, Couple and Family Counselling • Comprehensive Family Mediation (with or without lawyers) • Hypnotherapy • Life Coaching Bank St. at Lansdowne Pk. email: [email protected] 234-5678 (by appointment) www.ottawacounselling.com OYECHE G PHOTO: PAT Council President Annemarie Groot Feb.-June Thursday, February 26 2009 TUYA’S MARRIAGE* OT China 2007 (86 min.) Need Renovations? 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Bruce’s wife Anne, who passed Bruce’s professional career as an away in 1997, was a chair of the engineer involved a lot of travel to Glebe Report board of directors. places like Southeast Asia. When The Anne Donaldson Scholarship he retired, he became enthusiastic- in Journalism at Carleton University ally involved in his local commun- was established by the board in her ity, especially at the Glebe Report, memory. Later on, Bruce became a as both a business columnist and board member, putting forth not only as a board member from 1999 to the business point of view, but also 2005.