RUSH Drummer To Deliver Acceptance Speech At CANADIAN SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME

March 27, 2010

Jane Stevenson of the QMI Agency reports that RUSH drummer Neil Peart will write and deliver the acceptance speech as he, bassist-vocalist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson are inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame at a gala ceremony Sunday night at the Toronto Centre For The Arts.

"Public speaking isn't easy for me and I know all the evening the blood will be roaring louder in my ears," Peart, 57, said. "But it's a challenge and I love those kind of things. Even performing live, after all these years, is an intensely tense (experience) all day long and leading up to show-time and then just before it, again the blood rushing in your ears, and heart pounding, and everything feels tingly and kind of unwell. But it's a challenge as well to go up there and play well under those circumstances."

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