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Red Robinson feted for music industry contribution
Veteran DJ and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honoured
Malcolm Parry, Vancouver Sun
Published: Saturday, August 02, 2008
Jamie
Nicholson and Steve McCarthy flanked Red Robinson at the Vancouver
Music at the Vancouver Music Industry awards (Photo: Malcom Parry) |
BETTER RED: Veteran disc jockey Red Robinson is a member of Cleveland,
Ohio's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The B.C. government recently named
him one of history's 150 most-influential people here. The Vancouver
Sun contributor received a closer-to-home tribute Tuesday. That was
when longtime music friends and associates honored him with the Bruce
Allen/Sam Feldman Legend Award "for outstanding contributions to the
Vancouver music industry."
That was at the Powell-at-Columbia Canvas Lounge, which sits kitty
corner from a recording studio owned by rock-manager Allen's client
Bryan Adams. The joint was jammed when Vancouver Music Industry
organization founder Jeff Dawson fronted a gala that, with a related
golf tournament, raised a reported $60,000 to support the Sarah
McLachlan Foundation's music-education programs for needy children.
Sarah McLachlan (left) with Vancouver Music Industry gala's Su Bailey, saw her Foundation gain $60,000. (Photo: Malcom Parry) |
In the 1950s, when the Canvas Lounge existed as the less tony Anchor
beer parlour, Robinson introduced CJOR and CKWX's teenaged listeners to
the likes of sport-jacketed Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly
and Elvis Presley. He was fussed over Tuesday by the Melodic Blue
ensemble's much-tattooed Jamie Nicholson and Steve McCarthy, who have
more ink in their hides than a swing band's sheet-music library. Even
gala host Terry David Mulligan, whose musicbiz and police gigs have
presented many strange sights, was forced to smile.
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