Gordon Lightfoot tribute show shuts out key performers, including long-time promoter Bernie Fiedler

Bernie Fiedler , the 85-year-old bon vivant and former boy soprano, is dropping truth bombs. Both he and the late troubadour, who were long-time great pals and business associates, sang in children choirs . Fiedler says tapes of their pipsqueak voices still exist.There is no reason not to believe Fiedler was a superior singer. Of course, Lightfoot was no slouch as a kid crooner himself.

“I was going to talk to Dylan, but then the estate told me I wasn’t a part of it,” Fiedler says. “I just had dinner with Joni Mitchell at her house in Los Angeles. She’s frail, but if I would have asked, she could have said a few words in front of a camera.” Massey Hall issued a statement to The Globe, saying that Lightfoot was “an artist’s artist” who was “deeply appreciated by a vast number of songwriters worldwide,” and that the selected performers represented a “wide-ranging group of artists, spanning multiple generations of acclaimed Canadian singer-songwriters.”

It was in 1964 when Fiedler first saw Lightfoot at Steele’s Tavern on Toronto’s Yonge Street strip. He caught the last song of the set, walked up to the stage as Lightfoot was stepping down from it and offered to double his weekly pay – $200, up from $100 – if he moved to the Riverboat.The Riverboat was the foremost folk club in Canada, rivalling the Troubadour in Los Angeles, the Bitter End in New York and the Cellar Door in Washington in stature.

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