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8 NO EXCHANGE NECESSARY DANCE OF THE LEPRECHAUN An evening of Irish fun and frolic to celebrate St. Patrick's Night with Canada's most famous musician BOBBY GIMBY, and the Lance Harrison Quartet. Tuesday, March 17, 1981. A special 'shamrock' menu for two, under $40 and a great evening of dancing at no extra charge. BOBBY GIMBY LANCE HARRISON.

Together again March 17-28, 1981 Call 689-9211 (local 242) for reservations. tf" SHERIDAN COLLEGER in Oakville, Ontario Canada helping of heavy rock (including a rather humorous number, I Don't Wanna Be Awake), and, rather surprisingly, two instrumental a jazzy Untitled and a Gary Numan-ish Electric Detective. Travers is particularly proud of Electric Detective, since he played all the instruments on it with the exception of bass, which Cowling added later. "I just went into the studio to make a demo, and I was playing around with this little electronic synthesizer, and I came up with the tune, added guitar, and just kept adding to it." has some other songs he expresses complete confidence in, Russ Ballard's I Surrender and It Can't Happen Here. And a sure indication of the band's versatility is their guitar-crunching rendition of a short version of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

Glover explains that for several years, "in fact, ever since the Deep Purple the band has been doing "short snatches" of classical music on stage. (Keyboardist Don Airey is a classically-trained pianist.) "We've done bits of the Brandenburg Concertos, and we used to do the 1812 Overture. And when we started doing this album, we had been doing the Ninth on stage, so we decided to stretch it out and do a long version of it. "We want to have a bit of a laugh, and show people that classical music isn't all deadly serious." presents the International Summer School of Animation from May 19 to Aug. 21, daily Three intensive summer sessions will lead to the college's three-year Classical Animation diploma pro gram.

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(416) 845-9430. Sheridan also operates the School of Crafts and Design, Canada's argest and best equipped laciiity devoted exclusively to crafts educa By FIONA McQUARRIE Sun Music Critic Pat Travers is a man of few words. But he is more than happy to talk about his haircut. For a heavy metal rocker to shear his long locks is close to heresy, but Travers, who is calling from his home in Orlando, Florida, accepts it quite happily. "I did a photo session a few weeks ago," he says, "and the hairstylist trimmed my hair and just kept on trimming because I liked it.

"I was on Saturday Night Live a few weeks ago with Todd Rundgren and nobody recognized me." Travers is more adept at expressing himself through his music, which has made him a steady seller on vinyl and a dependable concert attraction. He headlines the Coliseum Concert Bowl Monday. Travers lovers practically needed a scorecard to keep track of the band's lineup last year. Guitarist Pat Thrall quit and rejoined the band several times, and no one seemed quite sure as to the status of drummer Tommy Aldridge. But all is now calm; Thrall and Aldridge have left, and the band is now Travers, bassist Mars Cowling, and drummer Sandy Gennero, formerly of Blackjack.

"When Tommy originally joined the band two years ago, we made an agreement that he would stay two years, and after that if he wanted to pursue his own music he could," explains Travers. "Pat well, after our last tour ended in August, he wasn't quite sure what he wanted to do, and he took a long time making up his mind. We needed someone who was more committed. "Though the lineup's shrunk down to three, it's three of the hardest working musicians you'll find." Travers' latest album, Radio Active, has just been released in Canada. It features a healthy jP 4 A i i i Opening for Travers is Rainbow, a band that includes two former members of the legendary Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore (who won the Guitarist of the Year category in the 1980 Melody Maker Poll) and bassist Roger Glover.

The band has been together for six years, and also recently underwent some personnel changes; drummer Cozy Powell left to join the Michael Schenker Group, and was replaced by Bob Rondinelli, and vocalist Graham Bonnet has been replaced by Joe Lynn Turner, formerly with Fandango. Glover, resting up in Cleveland after spending 24 hours trying to get out of Baltimore airport was fogged in and we couldn't switch points out that the band doesn't consider itself strictly a heavy metal outfit. "The heavy metal format is too restricting. A band has to sell records to justify a tour. There's no stigma to having a hit record.

Some bands think you lose your integrity if you make a commercial record. That's a fallacy." Rainbow's latest album, Difficult to Cure, has one very airplay-oriented number, the breezy Magic, which Glover admits to having his doubts about. "I wonder if it isn't a little too commercial." But it also FOP SEEIES JANEOLIVOR Queen Elizabeth July 17, 1981 8 pm JOHNNY MATHIS Orpheum Jan. 19-20, 1982 8 pm CORDON LICHTFOOT Queen Elizabeth Nov. 20,1981 8pm LOU RAWLS Orpheum Sept.

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