Abundance of benefits in Wolfville

BY WENDY ELLIOTT

The Advertiser

NovaNewsNow.com

Two upcoming benefit events in Wolfville should attract wide audiences on Friday and Sunday evenings.

The first on Dec. 7 will raise funds for War Child Canada and volunteer organizer Harry Roberts bills the event as an anti-war concert.

Set for the Al Whittle Theatre, Roberts has pulled together about 20 well-known musicians for the anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbour.

“We hope there will be lots of anti-war songs,” he says. “I know I’ve been unhappy for several years with U.S. policies.”

Among those taking part in the 8 p.m. concert will be the Hupman brothers, Kate Adams, Kathy Arsenault, Ken Shorley and George Woolaver.

On Sunday evening, a benefit for the Christmas turkey fund at the Wolfville Foodbank is planned for 7:30 p.m. at the Wolfville Baptist Church.

Members of the Fezziwig cast, including the first and second Mr. Fezziwig, will perform in a staged reading of the Second Shepherds' Play. It’s a famous medieval mystery play and thought to be the first comedy ever written in English.

It gained its odd name from the fact that in the manuscript it immediately follows another nativity play involving the shepherds.

The play is actually two separate stories presented sequentially: the first is a non-biblical story about a thief who steals a sheep. Then the storyline switches to the familiar one of the three shepherds being told of the birth of Christ by an angel, and being told to go to Bethlehem.

Paul Lauzon, who teaches at the Acadia School of Music, and several others will also provide music. Well-known local teacher and performer Nancy Denton-Peck will lead a carol sing.