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Sunshine guaranteed as two large festivals wrap up Sunday

By KEITH LACEY With the promise of yet another beautiful day of sunshine, there promises to be huge crowds on hand as the Northern Lights Festival Boreal and Sudbury Caruso Club Italian Festival wrap up for another year.
By KEITH LACEY

With the promise of yet another beautiful day of sunshine, there promises to be huge crowds on hand as the Northern Lights Festival Boreal and Sudbury Caruso Club Italian Festival wrap up for another year.

GEORGE LEACH
If you love jazz music, today will be a special day at the 31st annual NLFB as numerous jazz bands are scheduled to play on various stages on the final day of the festival.

The Jazz Lamas will take to the main stage amphitheatre at 2 pm. They will be followed by The Latin Jazz Piano at 3 pm, where musician Hilario Duran will take the audience through an overview of what is called Latin Jazz. One of the world?s foremost Cuban jazz piano players, Duran will be accompanied by his bass player and drummer and some special guests.

In the Canvas Cabaret beer tent, the Solar Jazz Ensemble will kick things off at noon today.

After the Franco-Ontarian group Les Batines and the Road Dog Divas perform, there?s more jazz at 3 pm with song stylist and acclaimed guitarist Mose Scarlett sharing the stage with Tony Quarrington, an innovative jazz guitarist and composer of more than 500 jazz tunes and original songs.

Nunavut singer-songwriter Lucie Idlout performs at 4 pm in the Canvas Cabaret, followed by George Leach, another aboriginal singer-songwriter from British Columbia, who won Best Male Artist and Best Rock Album at the 2000 Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards.

Jazz once again will be prominent tonight in the Canvas Cabaret tent.

Sudbury?s own Chantelle Soganich, who returns home after spending the last decade attending school and performing in Michigan, kicks off the evening program at 7 pm.

She will be followed by Richard Hale and the Jazz Trio and the Sudbury Jazz Orchestra. Hilario Duran will finish off the festival in the Canvas Cabaret tent performing his own acclaimed Cuban jazz.

On the Grace Hartman Amphitheatre main stage this evening, singer-songwriter Stephane Paquette will gets things started at 7 pm.

He will be followed by festival favourite Jackie Washington, who will be joined by Mose Scarlett and Tony Quarrington.

Lucie Idlout will once again perform, before festival headliners The Cowboy Junkies perform before what promises to be a full house.

The Cowboy Junkies are one of Canada?s most respected and critically-acclaimed bands of the past 15 years.

Their music is haunting and sparse one moment and then rocking, aggressive and loud the next.

The band?s signature sound features the prominent vocals of Juno Award winning songstress Margo Timmins, who is ably backed by her brothers Michael, the band?s chief songwriter, and Peter.

The workshop stage, arts village and children?s area will all be humming with activity starting at noon and continuing until early evening.

For those people with enough energy, the Townehouse Tavern should be rocking well into the early morning hours Monday as the rock and roll band Jesus Murphy and the Sonofaguns and African fusion band The Mighty Popo share the stage.

Tickets for the main stage evening concert are $25 for adults. Children under age 10 get in free.

Meanwhile, over at the Italian Festival at the Caruso Club, the annual Sunday mass will be celebrated by Bishop Jean Louise Plouffe, who leads the Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie. The mass begins at 10:15 am and will include a performance by the Caruso Club Choir.

Brunch begins in the upper hall at 11:15 am with youth games, food and music continuing all day in the outside tent.

A chicken and pasta dinner will be served at 4 pm, followed by an awards presentation at 6 pm and another evening dance. Admission is free. The dance begins at 7 pm.

A raffle draw will be held at 11 pm, followed by the closing ceremonies.

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