Building a community Guy Rodgers leads ELAN for third year
by Sarah Deshaies
There was no finer PR moment for Montreal’s arts scene than when Paul Giamatti accepted his Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical for incarnating Mordecai Richler’s iconic anti-hero in 2010’s Barney’s Version. Gushing to millions of viewers, the bespectacled Hollywood actor showered praise on the “incredible beautiful city that I dream about.”
The moment repeated itself days later, when the ecstatic independent band Arcade Fire proclaimed its home base’s greatness to the Grammy crowd. "Thank you, merci, to Montreal, Quebec, for taking us and giving us a home and a place to be in a band,” said frontman Win Butler as his bandmates beamed and clutched golden statuettes for Best Album of the Year.
It’s moments like these that make Guy Rodgers smile.
