Kim Barlow with chicken breasts, braised red cabbage

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RED TOP MOTOR INN

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Juno nominee Kim Barlow headlines at the Red Top Motor Inn, Iron Bridge

For the final show of 2006, the Red Top Motor Inn is proud to present singer-songwriter Kim Barlow with musican Jody Walker on October 13 and 14.

The show will be preceded by a seasonal fall dinner.

Kim Barlow is a leaf set in stone: jagged as a Yukon horizon; tender as spring.

Her songs are wry and impassioned, deft distillations of the beautiful and absurd world she inhabits.

Playing guitar, banjo, and cello, the Juno nominee uses her training as a classical musician to create complex and unexpected settings for her fables of lost children, plaints of lust, and songs of protest.

Barlow is at her best when giving free reign to her marvelous imagination and hybrid approach to construction and phrasing. A fine vocalist with unmistakable traces of Joni Mitchell in her delivery, Barlow really shines as a lyricist. - Hank Davis, Goldmine Magazine

Humour, lust, and empathy are the themes that run through Barlow’s songs; living in an environment where you can die if you wear the wrong clothes seems to have impressed her with a sense of life's fleeting fragility. - Alexander Varty, The Georgia Straight

Kim Barlow was born in Quebec, and raised in rural Nova Scotia.

She graduated from Florida State University with a BA in music.

She taught herself to play the banjo beside a campfire in the Yukon and from there embarked on an eccentric musical career that has taken her from Inuvik to the UK; and from Martha's Vineyard to the Vancouver Folk Music Festival.

Along the way Kim produced three CDs and one son.

Her second CD, Gingerbread was nominated for a Juno award in 2003 in the roots/traditional category.

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Menu

Our Own Baked Bread and Mushroom Spread
Corn and Potato Chowder
Leek Vinaigrette
Breast of Chicken in Madeira Sauce
Braise Red Cabbage and Wild Rice Flan
Spirited Pumpkin Pie
Coffee or Tea

The Red Top Motor Inn is located in Iron Bridge, Ontario, 115 kilometres east of Sault Ste. Marie and 185 kilometres west of Sudbury.

We are 24 kilometres from Blind River and 27 kilometres from Thessalon.

Special getaway rates ($25 for two people) will be offered to patrons who wish to stay overnight in Iron Bridge and not drink and drive.

Show times: dinner/show

Friday October 13 - 6:30 p.m.
Saturday October 14 - 6:30 p.m.

Price for dinner and show is $50 per person, plus taxes.

Reservations are required.

Reservations: 705-843-2100 or 1-877-843-2100 toll free

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