Tanglefoot to perform in Orangeville

Caledon and Orangeville grandmothers and friends are presenting the Canadian folk band Tanglefoot Feb. 2 at the Opera House in Orangeville.

This will be a fund-raiser for the Stephen Lewis Foundation.

Tanglefoot combines vocal harmonies, instrumentals and original song writing, based on fascinating and little known tales from Canadian history. The band was once described as "Stan Rogers Meets Van Halen."

Recently, Tanglefoot won the 2007 Canadian Folk Music Award for Best Vocal Group. The award was a celebration of the band's 20- year career touring North America and Europe, and they are now one of the best known Canadian folk bands. Theirs is a high energy performance and fans are always on their feet at the end of every show, applauding for multiple encores.

The concert is being presented as a joint effort of the Canadian Federation of University Women and the Orangeville Go Go Grannies. Their aim is to fund raise for the Grandmother to Grandmother Campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. The Foundation seeks to ease the burden of African grandmothers who are faced with raising literally millions of children who have been orphaned by the AIDS pandemic.

Join with the local grandmothers from Caledon and Orangeville in supporting the work of the Stephen Lewis Foundation.

Tickets are $20 each and are available from the Opera House ticket office at (519) 942-3423, or from Acoustic Traditions Music, Blighty's Tuck Shop and Booklore, in Orangeville.