THE FREE PRESS ENTERTAINMENT JANUARY 27, 2000 B3 ZlFAMOUS PLAYERS BIG SCRIINI BIG SOUND! BIG DIFFIRINCI! FAMOUS PLAYERS 6 Tel 612-3993 #172 - 1600 15" Avenue Schedule is for Friday, January 28 - Thursday, February 3 Matinees Sat. & Sun. Only - Famous Tuesdays, all tickets $5.00 - Visit our Interactive Games Room ADULT VIDEOS FOR RENT OR SALE Over 1,100 Titles! Check our sale prices! Open 365 days a year, lOam-Ilpm. No membership fees. 6475 HART HIGHWAY Violence Corse Lang Sugg Scenes NucMy dani retun One of the favourite 6 Play it to the Bone performers from PG past is coming back to visit. Singer/songwriter Danielle Hebert lived here in the early 90s, and worked for the venerable Other Art Cafe, contributing to its heyday. Now she is back to help re-launch another live music venue, the Fourth Avenue Blues Club. She hits the stage on January 28. Danielle can impress an audience in both official languages, which is impressive all by itself. She has been building a reputation as one of B.C.’s best French performers, but in the whole nation there isn’t a huge market for this, so she has to (and wants to) work in English as well. “(The French market) has always been quiet,” she says from her home in Vancouver. “In B.C. we have the summer festival (Festival d’Ete) but you maybe get to play it once every few years because there are so many artists, and it’s one of the only places for them. I’ve been travelling a lot. I’ve been all over the map - Edmonton, Winnipeg, Montreal a bunch of times, bars, cafes, schools. I've been performing a lot in English, I have to be honest. “There is a French-lan-guage circuit, sort of, but if you do it once you almost have to have another album to get to go back. In Quebec they (the industry) sort of want you to live there to put any interest into you. My plans are to be who I am and what I am, or else you could become a sort of cultural pawn. As far as I’m concerned, this is my culture - bilingualism - not French, not English.” One of the problems in being an independent artist like Danielle is having to do all the grunt work yourself. In one 10-month period recently she only completed one song, because she was too (^4 duQt ^D/trams 12613) Aw. 'TSthcr Qrowjr. V.(' v2P2c6 V/ s‘ TW: 562-55G7 QmU Wmm on oCC out "PmtnCn 6 GnOos... otc.) Ik 18 o» o(Wn fo mtn p.w wiw) Enter at: THF PAINCF. GEORGE FREE PRESS Book^gompany 1773 S. Lyon St. 1685 3rd Ave. 564-0005 563-6637 All Regular Priced Wash Packages. Complete Or Exterior Danielle Hebert performs tomorrow night at the Fourth Avenue Blues Club. Mo brushes means No scratches!! 1956 - 3rd Avenue • 563-0606 . Located at former Splash-N-Dash Location ■ ^ Not valid with other promo or discount Otter expires February 29, 2000 bogged down in managing, publicizing and appearing on behalf of her career. For her tour of Quebec alone she made 400 phone calls in a single month! For someone born to create, that was a hard and unwelcome period. Now the creative juices are flowing again. Her new album is about halffinished the recording process, she has a bunch of new material in the book, and for this trip back to northern B.C. she has her back-up band ready to go. She’s excited to return. “I have such good memories of Prince George,” she pines. “When I went away, I was thinking that things would be as good for me in the next town as it had been in PG, but it didn’t work out that way. In Vancouver it was hard to meet people and get work, and in PG I was welcomed so fast and was brought into the community so fast. For me it was something really precious. You say to yourself ‘aww, being in Vancouver, it’s business’ but if I was really honest with myself I’d leave it really fast.” True to form, when she comes to Prince George next week it won’t just be a one-night-stand and on to the next town. She will also do a bunch of workshops in local schools and a concert at Duchess Park Secondary for their French students. Danielle Hebert & The Book of 13 (her band) plays on January 28 at the Fourth Ave. Blues Club Tickets available at the venue. NORTHERN ... BLUE Finding yourself suffering from Cabin Fever? ^ is Winter more of a four letter word in your A vocabulary? Put those northern blues to use and let , 4 us know how this time of the year makes you feel J* in the form of a short story in 800 words or less. •> All entries must be received by 5pm February 14th. \ 1“ Prize - *100 Gift Certificate 2 ?d Prize - *50 Gift Certificate 3rd Prize - *25 Gift Certificate | Gift Certificates provided by Books & CO. winning entries will be published in the Free Press