B.C. icon David Foster pulls name from Saanich arts centre
It turns out that David Foster isn’t so keen on the David Foster Arts Centre.
The Victoria-born music icon — winner of 15 Grammys as a songwriter and producer — told the suburb of Saanich he no longer wants his name associated with a multimillion-dollar addition to the local Cedar Hill Recreation Centre.
“I don’t think I’d ever have expected it,” said Saanich mayor Frank Leonard, after receiving a phone call from Foster’s people last week to say the music mogul was pulling his name from the community-centre wing.
The 9,000-square-foot facility, slated to open next spring, will include art and pottery studios, a sound studio, a multi-purpose room for dance and other activities, and a community art gallery. The facility will cost about $4- to $5-million, Leonard said, including $2.6 million in federal and provincial stimulus funding.
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