WATERS STILL RUNS DEEP
Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters performs Tuesday at Rogers Place on his Us + Them tour. He plays a second show there Wednesday night.
The girls are a bundle of energy.
Raeya Jarvis, 13; Sare Bissoondatt, 12; and Gina Decoine, 12, are three of the 12 lucky kids given a chance to share the Rogers Place stage with legendary former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
All 12 belong to the Boys & Girls Clubs Big Brothers Big Sisters music and dance programs, and were to join Waters to perform Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2). The kids range in age from 10 to 15 years.
“Further down the road, they will look back at this experience and relish it,” Daniel Edwards, club co-ordinator for the Rundle Boys and Girls Club, said Tuesday.
It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, he said.
Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) is a song that takes aim at rigid schooling, with its lyrics: “We don’t need no education/ We don’t need no thought control/ No dark sarcasm in the classroom.”
So, do these barely teens know who Roger Waters is?
“No,” Decoine said with a giggle. What is Pink Floyd?
“It’s a band,” Bissoondatt said with an air of confidence. “Roger Walters is the singer of the band. Waters. I keep saying that wrong. It’s a band that’s famous.”
Their parents, of course, know the band, the girls said.
“My sister loves Pink Floyd,” Bissoondatt said.
Dressed in black, the girls chatter about dance moves and the lyrics.
“It’s pretty easy,” Jarvis said of the words.
When asked what she understood about the lyrics, she said: “It’s against like teachers and stuff.”
They haven’t met the legendary singer, but are looking forward to it.
“I hope we don’t embarrass ourselves in front of him,” she said, jumping up and down on the balls of her feet.