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Preview Lennie Gallant... Lennie Gallant started writing songs as soon as he got his first Bob guitar, using just two chords. Then he found his uncle's Dylan records and never looked back. "I realized that with three chords you could do so much more." him and a growing list of prestigious Now he has five CDs behind awards, including eleven East Coast Music Awards and two Junos. His style truly is a rock-and-roll clam- fusion, based on folk roots spiced with a driving beat that consistently ouring for more. gets audiences out of their seats and At Cap College Theatre he will have just two other musicians The with him, Shehab lllyas on bass and Chris Church on violin. result, he says, will be "a little bit more intimate." though, will be Gallant's usual mix of well-known The set list, songs, less- B f c w T I T " and completely spectruWot I like^to mahi AndfedthA emotion new songs. "I like to cover a wide in a concert. I like to make people think and time. them laugh and I want them to have a great Ve picked up a few things along the way." Acadian ^ j j s j p w J they'll pick up is a sense of Gallant's Prince Edward Island roots. He's been including songs in French in his showM for ten years. Now he is about to release his first allFrench CD, m Vent Boheme. It's the result of a labour of love. Three of his four grandparents spoke French as their first lan- guage. But Gallant himself did not and only came to the language as an adu\ out with Acadian friends from other "When I started hanging communities connection. that n S h ' f lost the language There w a s connection I felt there was a real that didn't even have to be spoken about berweenifyself other people and them. And it's the same for Even though the language has from my aMgiunity. gone, there's still this confection. the Acadian culture." V You know you're still part of sj^^Asvve// as tlje Cap Colleg^how on April 4, Gallant will be on the weekend www.lenniegallant.com. of f a p ) ^ ^ ^ a y t e ^ e s r / r a / du Bo%^£oquitlam fUfMJj^J^^^ioi\ il^f^iallo^^e r live! March | April