Glen Reid is a veteran of the Canadian Music scene. He began to make a name for himself in the late 1960s, in the folk community in the Yorkville district in Toronto. Throughout tht 70′s he was a session musician and band member on several popular Canadian television shows including Singalong Jubilee, John Allan Cameron’s Let’s Have A Caleigh, The Ryan’s Fancy/Tommy Makem Show, The Harry Hibbs Show, and the George Hamilton IV Show.
In the 80s he moved to Burks Falls Ontario, where he worked as a cabinet maker, raises horses and became a well known luthier.
You can read more of his stories and purchase his albums at glenreid.com.
By the time this is released, the 2011 Mariposa Folk Festival will have passed. This is the last of my interviews recorded at the 2010 edition of Mariposa. I have known Blaise Alleyne for several years, mostly through social media. Blaise is a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, Catholic, and programmer from Toronto. He is deeply interested in the Free culture movement who contributes to free software projects, is a regular contributor to Techdirt, and releases his music under Creative Commons Licences. He is in demand as a violin player with many Ontario musicians, including, Mike Celia, Dave Borins and Robyn Dell’Unto.
Next weekend is the 51st annual edition of the Mariposa Folk Festival, and I still find I have 3 shows from last year to release. Last summer, I finally got the chance to interview Suzie Vinnick. I first became aware of Suzie and her amazing voice in the late 80s when I was attending university in Saskatoon. Suzie was a featured performer on a local radio station, C95′s compilation of local musicians, Cityworks 88. Over the years I have seen her perform at numerous festivals, but this is the first time I had a chance to chat with her. You may also recognize her voice from the “Always Tim Horton’s” jingles. Enjoy.
If you are at the Mariposa Folk Festival next weekend, you will find me in the Children’s village building drums with sonotube and packing tape. Drop by and say hello.
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Last summer I sat down with Canadian Folk legend Caitlin Hanford, at the 50 anniversary of the Mariposa Folk Festival. Caitlynn Hanford is a solo-singer songwriter, she is 1/4 of Quartette with Sylvia Tyson, Gwen Swick and Cindy Church, and she sings in the Marigolds with Gwen Swick and Susie Vinnick. She is also an elementary school music teacher so our conversation steered towards a discussion on teaching music to children.
For four years, I would record interviews for For the Sake of the Song all summer at festivals around Ontario, then I would release them year round on a twice monthly schedule. This winter, I found my busy home and worklife was very busy. I also have been quite focussed on my other podcast, The Catholic Roundup. So I did what so many other long running podcasters eventually do. I Podfaded.
After four years and 120+ interviews with songwriters I think I accomplished what I set out to do when I started the podcasters. I have interviewed some amazing musicians, I’ve grown as a songwriter, and I have done the radio show I always wanted.
But I still have about half a dozen unreleased shows from last summer and fall, and occasionally I run across a musician I would really like to interview. So I’m not going to end this show completely– just become a periodic podcast producer.
The 51st Edition of the Mariposa Folk Festival is right around the corner on July 8-10, 2011. I still have 4 unreleased interviews from last year’s festival with some wonderful musicians. I will try to release these shows leading up to the festival this year.
To get this started, please enjoy a few of my pictures from last year’s Mariposa Folk Festival.
Dave Borins is a Toronto singer-songwriter who seemingly effortlessly crosses between folk, country, and hard-edged rock and roll. I caught up with him at the Mariposa Folk Festival. Dave and his band will be recording a live album on October 20 and 21, 2010 at Hugh’s Room in Toronto. It is bound to be a great event.
To cap things off, it turns out that today is his birthday, a fitting day to release this episode. Happy Birthday Dave.
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Paul Mills is known in the Canadian roots music scene as a musician, songwriter, producer, co-founder of Borealis Records and as a former sideman of Stan Rogers. He often performs under the name of Curly Boy Stubbs. We met at the booth of guitar maker, Ron Belanger at the Mariposa Folk Festival. You can hear the sounds of the festival around us as Paul shares some stories from his long career as a producer, and we discuss songwriting, and the role of the producer in the recording process.
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Paul Mills
