B6 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER W ednesday, M ay 17, 2000 A unique & wacky team building experience for organizations, big & small Thursday, June 22, 2000 Oakville Entertainment Centre 11:00am - 2:00 pm For more information call: (905) 522-5171 Award-winning songwriter will perform at Waterfront (Continued from page B5) Register today! M l together 7 individuals, including yourself, and say... YES, WE CAN SEND A KID TO CAMP! Challenge yourself, challenge your team mates, challenge your organization. The more pledges you raise, the more HAPPY CAMPERS there will be... and you'll benefit, too, from a line-up of incentive prizes that recognizes your outstanding fund-raising effort on behalf of the kids. 1 Canoe x $1,300 = A Happy Camper (It costs $1,300 to send one child to an Easter Seal Camp for 1 week.) Fill out the information below and: Fax The Easter Seal Society at or Phone The Easter Seal Society at Entry deadline June 2, 2000. r want to register a team of 7 in i PORTAGE FOR EASTER SEAL KIDS I Team Captain: _ i -------- society MMWiaU PENEC | I G a te w a y I I The CfcKms Bures · Address: _ _Postal Code:_ City:__ Fax: Phone: _ E-mail: How many people are in your organization? _ "I've always been a writer, a life observer," she says, adding that she plays piano by ear, which is a bonus when it comes to songwriting. "I'm much better at buying a classical piece on a CD and playing it...than (playing it from) sheet music. It's just faster for me. I can hear it. I know what it is." M akin's brief musical hiatus came to an end when she decided to improve her skills by enrolling at the Faunt School o f Creative Music in Lbs Angeles. And she is still working on her professional certification, improving her arranging, performing, studio, improv, rhyth mic, ear, reading and writing skills. "Music is a language. You're learning the language of music, and you have to be able to communicate thoroughly in that language," she explains. "You really have to have a mastery of the music language. And that's my internal goal." Her external goal, she adds, is to write songs that move people in any number of genres pop, ballads, instrumental music, and rock/alternative. "I actually won four awards last year in the U. S. for four of my songs. Three of them were pop songs and one of them was a rock/alterna tive kind o f song," she says explaining that the `Top 100' award winners were selected by the Billboard Songwriters Association. In other words, 96 other songs also won awards that year. However, Makin adds, about 50,000 songs were in the running. She chooses to sell her material in the U. S. because, she says, it provides her with a larger market and, of course, more radio stations for more air time. But she wouldn't even consider living south of the border. "It's a market issue. A gold record in Canada is only 50,000 units. A gold record in the U. S. is 500,000 units. I'm a songwriter who gets paid per unit per song," she explains. "But I've been to Los Angeles too many times. I don't think I could live there...I am Canadian, and I truly enjoy living in C anada...I don't want to get rich being a Canadian artist. I just want to have the freedom to be a Canadian artist." Although Makin doesn't have a Canadian distribution deal as yet, her CD is available through the internet at M P3.com. And she plans to promote her second CD more actively in Canada, beginning with a Canadian, or perhaps even an Oakville, launch. Two o f her award-winning songs are on her first CD. And that CD, she says, demonstrates the diversity o f her songwriting and of the musicians she hired to work with her. "The songs that I chose to put on my first CD, For < the M oment , really express the different moments in life - situations that people find themselves in," she says. Her two other award-winning songs will appear on her second CD, Be Free. All four songs have also been put on ho\d by publishers to present to well-known singers for recording. But Makin doesn't know which singers will be approached. "I'm not really into being this famous per son. I want to be an excellent, proficient musi cian and the best artist that I can be. But at the same time, I really w ant'to get radio play," she says. "It's the need .to communicate. An artist doesn't paint a painting not to have it hang in a gallery for other people to enjoy." M akin can be seen and heard performing at the Oakville W aterfront Festival on Saturday, June 24th from noon to 1 p.m. in Towne Square and from 3 to 3:30 p.m. on the Coronation Family Stage, as well as on Sunday, June 25th from 1 to 1:30 p.m. on the Bronte M arina Stage. Both her CDs will be available at those locations during those times. She will also be part o f the W aterfront Festi val's Battle o f the Bands. Biographical information on Makin, excerpts of her songs and dates for her appear ances in the Golden Horseshoe area are avail able on her website at www.moragmakin.com. A brand new Penningtons Superstore Bargain price for folk concert trio The W hite O ak Folk Club is fea turing a special Spring Fundraising Concert at its regular session on Sun day, May 21st, beginning at 7 p.m. in the Oakville Rod and Gun Club, 36 Upper M iddle Rd. E. (near Sixth Line). This special event, designed to raise money for the club's Forever Young Folk Festival in July, will fea ture David Leask and Paul Langille. Leask first performed at the W hite Oak Folk Club during its second sea son. He is an excellent performer, and his concern for the world around him is reflected in his writing. He has two CDs to his credit, In the Blood and 100 Camels. Langille is a newcom er to the club, who did a few songs in the hopes o f selling a couple o f his CDs. He ended up selling 20. He will be a great addi tion to the fund-raising concert with his com m anding presence, raspy voice and fluid guitar work. Tickets for the fundraiser are $15. A special package price of $40 (a savings o f $11 over individual admis sion fees) is available and includes the fund-raising concert, the Forever Young Folk Festival on July 8th and an Eric Bogle Concert on July 31st (at the Knights of Columbus Hall). The Forever Young Folk Festival will feature the music o f John Prince & a Piece o f the Rock, Don Bray, Nonie Crete, Eve Goldberg, Donald McGeoch, Glen Reid and Sirens will all be featured, as well as a wealth of Oakville talent. The day kicks off at 11 a.m. with workshops and perform er spotlights until 5 p.m. The evening concert com mences at 5:30 p.m. and goes until 11 p.m. Food, raffles and door prizes will also be part of the day. Tickets are $20 in advance (until June 18th) and $25 thereafter or at the gate. For information or tickets for any of the above mentioned concerts, call 842-7960 or visit the W hite Oak Folk Club w ebsite at www. pathcom . com /~jeremiah/W hiteOakFolk.htm/. opens today in Oakville! Come celebrate with our event! Choose 2 items at the same price from a great selection of T-shirts, Tank Tops, Blouses, Shorts, Skirts & Pants and pay: 2 ^ 2 0 Reg. $12.99 ea. 2 * 2 5 Reg. $14.99 & $16.99 ea. 2 ^ 3 0 Reg. $19.99 & $22.99 ea. Hurry! Sale ends May 21, 2000 W hile q u a ntities last! Night ofawards dinner, dance and cabaret Enjoy the Oakville Drama Series awards presentation, cabaret and dance on Saturday, June 10th at 7 p.m. in the Royal Canadian Legion Hall. Guests will have the opportunity to see who wins the three Subscribers' Choice Awards, mingle with the per formers and subscribers, laugh and sing-along with the cabaret, eat a latenight buffet and dance until 1 a.m. Tickets are $25 each or $175 for a table of eight. M ake cheques payable to the Oakville Drama Series and send them to David Nash, 2355 Fifth Line West, #17, M ississauga Ont., L5K 2M8 or call 855-1439. 2501 Hyde Park Gate, at Hwy. 403 & Dundas St. Oakville (905) 829-2659 S/ZES 14 32 100 S T ORE S ACROSS CANADA *0ur Buy 2 & Save event is also available at all our other Penningtons Superstore locations. Canada's leading retailer off plus-size fashions & intimate apparel for women!