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Orillia's own musical icon will be featured on CBC's The Hour on Tuesday at 11 p.m.
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Lightfoot featured on CBC's The Hour
Posted By Randy Lucenti
Orillia's native son and music icon Gordon Lightfoot will be featured in an exclusive television interview on CBC's The Hour.
Lightfoot, 69, will be featured on the show, hosted by George Stroumboulopoulos, on Tuesday, May 6 beginning at 11 p.m.
The internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter and living-legend, who was born and raised in the Sunshine City, grants few interviews. The TV appearance comes prior to a four-night engagement by Lightfoot at Massey Hall in Toronto from May 7 to 10.
The interview will also appear on The Hour's website at
www.cbc.ca/thehour, according to the shows publicity person Julie Booth.
Lightfoot Jr., who was born Nov. 17, 1938 to Jessica and Gordon Lightfoot, last performed in his hometown as the final night's headliner at last year's Mariposa Folk Festival in July of 2007. He also performed at St. Paul's United Church last June.
As a youth, Lightfoot sang in the choir of St. Paul's under the direction of choirmaster Ray Williams. During that time as a "boy soprano," Lightfoot competed in amateur talent shows on CFOR radio, performed in a high school quartet (The Collegiate Four) and in the annual Kiwanis music festivals. The 50th annual Orillia Kiwanis Music Festival wrapped up earlier this week.
In December of 2006, Lightfoot performed at a sold-out Orillia Opera House following up with a smaller concert the next day at St. Paul's.
When he turned 18, Lightfoot moved to California, where he studied at Hollywood's Westlake College of Music in 1957. He returned to Canada in 1958, and his musical career grew from there.
Lightfoot embarked on his first Canadian tour in 1967. From 1967-71, he toured through Europe and Australia. He curtailed his touring schedule in 1972 after contracting Bell's palsy, a condition that left his face partially paralyzed for a time.
It wasn't until 1971 that his own version of "If You Could Read My Mind" became a top-10 hit. The song was originally featured on his 1970 album "Sit Down Young Stranger," which had not sold well. After the success of the song, the album was re-released under the new title "If You Could Read My Mind" to capitalize on the success of the song.
In 1974, his classic single "Sundown," from the album of the same name, went to No. 1 on the American charts. He followed up with such hits as "Carefree Highway," "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and "The Circle Is Small (I Can See It In Your Eyes)."
In the fall of 2002, before he was to play the second of two benefit concerts for Soldiers' Memorial Hospital and the Sunshine Festival at the Opera House, he suffered a near-fatal abdominal hemorrhage that left him in a coma for nearly two months. He recovered and later returned to the music business with the album "Harmony" and an appearance on the television show "Canadian Idol."
The musical legend has received 15 Juno Awards and been nominated for five Grammy Awards. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001. He was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 1998.
In 2003, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honour. Lightfoot is also a member of the Order of Ontario, the highest honour in the province.
He began his most recent tour in Knoxville, Tenn. on Feb. 11 and will conclude his 54-date 2008 schedule on Oct. 19 in San Diego, Calif.