Gordon Lightfoot (5/8/1982)
A Wings Stadium Concert Scrapbook Page
Artist(s): Gordon Lightfoot
Date: 8 May 1982
Tickets: $9.75 & 8.75 (reserved seating) + 25¢ surcharge per ticket for parking
Attendance: 4,000
Notes: Lightfoot’s third appearance at Wings Stadium, his first since 1976.
Setlist*: Hey You, Sundown, Carefree Highway, Hangdog Hotel Room, Triangle, Summertime Dream, 14 Karat Gold, In My Fashion, Shadows, Blackberry Wine, Baby Step Back, Race Among the Ruins, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, (break) All the Lovely Ladies, Christian Island (Georgian Bay), Ghosts of Cape Horn, Minstrel of the Dawn, If You Could Read My Mind, Beautiful, Song for a Winter’s Night, Gotta Get Away, The Auctioneer, Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Old Dan’s Records.
*unconfirmed, but likely similar based on other shows around the same time (e.g., Philadelphia, PA).
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Kalamazoo Gazette , (left) 26 March 1982, (right) 28 March 1982. Kalamazoo Public Library
Kalamazoo Gazette , (left) 18 April 1982, (right) 25 April 1982. Kalamazoo Public Library
Kalamazoo Gazette , 2 May 1982. Kalamazoo Public Library
Kalamazoo Gazette , 8 May 1982. Kalamazoo Public Library
Kalamazoo Gazette , 10 May 1982. Kalamazoo Public Library
Sources
Articles
“Returning”
Kalamazoo Gazette , 26 March 1982, page 19
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Kalamazoo Gazette , 28 March 1982, page 31
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Kalamazoo Gazette , 18 April 1982, page 37
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Kalamazoo Gazette , 25 April 1982, page 31
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Kalamazoo Gazette , 2 May 1982, page 18
“Lightfoot returns”
Kalamazoo Gazette , 2 May 1982, page 21 (B-3)
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Kalamazoo Gazette , 8 May 1982, page 2
“No Lightfoot mementos”
Kalamazoo Gazette , 8 May 1982, page 9
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Kalamazoo Gazette , 8 May 1982, page 10
“Lightfoot on Lightfoot: balladeer charms Wings crowd, gives backstage look at himself”
Kalamazoo Gazette , 10 May 1982, page 33