. Sunday, March 20 at &
p.m. CBC-TV will telecast
yet another Superspecial
titled simply Buffy, Buffy is
at once a superb hour of
musical television and an
eloquent expression of the
Indian experience. It is
peace and love, truth and
reality wrapped up into one
magnificent performer.

8, EMTERTAINMENT, THE HERALD, Wed. Mar. 16, 1977

Buffy Sainte Marie - SUP

Buffy Sainte Marie,
songwriter and singer,
woman and Cree Indian.
Her musie reaches into an
audience and touches those
secret places where the soul
resides. It's an experience

ou don’t want to stop and

ope never does.

Buffy is a powerhouse
hour of original music

and thoughtful (as with
Soldier Blue) to the driving
and forceful (as with Honey
Won't You Hang Around).
Folk, rock, blues, songs with
a message, songs for fun,
they all get their turn in this
well-balanced _ special
centered on Bulfy Sainte
Marie who skips from guitar
to piano, from piano

‘Buffy Sainte Marie, the

shy, beautiful Cree woman,

born on the Piapot Reserve
in Saskatchewan, has paid
dues like all professional
performers. From her
experiences came such hits
as Universal Soldier, Indian
Cowboy In The Rodeo, Until
It’s Time For You To Goand
Piney Wood Hills. She’s

So ethos ae oe :

ERSPECIAL

negie Hall and ‘in London's
Royal Albert Hall, The |
Mareh 20 Superspecial was
recorded at Toronto’s On-
tario Place in the fall of 1975
before a very live audience.

Buffy was directed for
television by Paddy Samp-
son and produced by the

Ontario: Educational

Communications Authorit
(OECA) in cooperation with
Outreach Ontario. In every —
sense of the word Buffy is
truly a Superspecial!

mouth bow without missing
a beat or a word.

Harry Belafonte, who
provides evocative
narration throughout the
special, said in one segment
“Virtually all the music in
this concert was written by
Buffy. That's marvellous!
She sings of her own per-
sonal experience. trom the
Cree tribe, their sense of
community...their sense of
deep caring and natural
things...cruelty and in-
justice...making us aware of
the dignity, courage and
soul of all people.”

The comparisons are
inevitable. But she’s not
Baez. Not Collins. She is

ranging over the entire
spectrum of human
emotion, from the tender

performed her songs in
concerts all over North
America, at folk festivals
around the world, at Car-

POEMS WANTED

The National Society of Published Poets is compiling a book
of poems. lf you have written a poem and would like our
- society to consider it for publication, send your poem and a
self-addressed, stamped envelope to:

NATIONAL SOCIETY
, OF PUBLISHED POETS, INC.
Lom P.O. Box 1976 :
Riverview, Florida, U.S.A: 33569

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