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Carpenter and Cohn coming to festival Singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter will be one of the headliners during the 2013 Vancouver Island Music Festival. Mary Chapin Carpenter’s music speaks to the most personal and most universal of life’s details. With 12 albums and 13 million records sold, Carpenter has won five Grammys, two CMA awards, two Academy of Country Music awards and is a Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee. Throughout her career, Carpenter has had a string of gold, platinum and multi-platinum albums, yielding such hits as Never Had it So Good, He Thinks He’ll Keep Her, Down at the Twist and Shout, I Feel Lucky, I Take My Chances, Shut Up and Kiss Me, and Tender When I Want to Be. Iconic artists including Joan Baez, Wynonna, Maura O’Connell, Mary Black, Cyndi Lauper, Dianne Reeves, Betty Buckley, Tony Rice and Trisha Yearwood have recorded her songs. Carpenter’s newest album Ashes and Roses has been described as her most powerful in years and is a collection of stunningly beautiful songs. Joining Carpenter on stage at MusicFest in July at the Comox Valley Exhibition Grounds is Grammy-award winner, singersongwriter Marc Cohn. A brilliant tunesmith, Cohn has the passion of a great soulman. He’s a natural storyteller, balancing the exuberant with the ... see COHN ■ A2
THE MAEVE MCKINNON Trio performs for Navigate powered by NIDES (North Island Distance Education School) students. Vancouver Island MusicFest sponsored the school visit and will sponsor more school performances in the future as part of a new partnership with Comox Valley schools. PHOTO COURTESY KIRK FRIEDERICH
MusicFest inspiring students in their schools Renee Andor
partnership with the Comox Valley School District where MusicFest will pay for some of its festival musicians to make special performances at various Comox Valley schools. “This is a small way MusicFest can give something back to our community in a real way, and
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After drawing huge crowds each summer for years, Vancouver Island MusicFest will now feature smaller performances designed to inspire Comox Valley students. MusicFest is starting a new
influence on him when he was a kid. He saw it inspire his own kids as well. “We see this (with kids) at the festival and it is perhaps the most rewarding part of what we do,” he continues. “There is nothing like seeing a child’s lights come on, ... see FESTIVAL ■ A2
it’s important we do so,” says MusicFest’s Doug Cox. “It’s a great thing for everyone. And we want to make sure the musicians we work with are fairly placed in various schools throughout the Valley so it’s not just going to one group of kids in particular.” Cox adds music had a profound
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