January 21, 2010: Today the great Canadian author, musician and raconteur, Paul Quarrington passed away at the age of 56 after a long battle with lung cancer. Paul has long been one of my favorite novelists, and he was a mighty fine songwriter as well. I was honored to interview him for my podcast a couple of year ago. I first released this show on April 8, 2008.
Safe Journey Paul. May you rest in peace.
For many years I have enjoyed the novels of Paul Quarrington. Paul is a Canadian author who has written novels, magazine articles, screenplays and songs for over 30 years. He has received the prestigious Governor General’s Literary award for English Fiction and the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour. In the early 80′s, he had a number 1 Canadian single with Martin Worthy as Quarrington-Worthy. He and Martin Worthy also toured for many years with Joe Hall and The Continental Drift. They are still together as the core of Pork Belly Futures, which also includes Chas Elliot, Stuart Laughton and Rebecca Campbell.
This episode of For the Sake of the Song is a bit unusual. In November, Pork Belly Futures played a benefit concert for the Twisted Pines Music Festival in Penetanguishene. Paul Quarrington and Claire Cameron also did public readings at the Midland and Penetanguishene public libraries. Their day was so tightly booked that I could not record a dedicated 1/2 hour interview with Paul. Instead, you will hear us at the library readings, performances by Pork Belly Futures at the concert that evening, and short interviews with Paul Quarrington, Martin Worthy and Chas Elliot.
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Ariana Gillis is a young up and coming singer songwriter with a voice that soars to the sky and a shock of purple hair. She is accompanied by her father David Gillis. Ariana and Dave came to my school during Stellula Music in the Schools week and I spoke with them after school had ended.
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Dawn Tyler Watson and Paul Deslauriers are individually known as the cream of Canada’s blues and rock performers. A few years ago they got together and realized that they have incredible chemistry together as an acoustic duo. I spoke with Dawn and Paul during Stellula Music in the Schools week.
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Trevor Finlay is an Ottawa singer-songwriter who is currently living in Nashville, co-writing with all takers and touring throughout the United States and Canada. I spoke with Trevor during Stellula Music in the Schools week. Trevor has four CDs available on his website.
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I first saw Katherine Wheatley perform at the Eaglewood Folk Festival in about 1993. She became an instant favorite of mine. Over the years we have seen her in concert dozens of times, and several years ago I had the pleasure of opening for her and Wendell Ferguson at the Orillia Folk Society. Katherine Wheatley is a veteran of the Canadian Folk and roots music scene. She plays in a number of bands. She is a solid guitar player. Her vocals and melodies are as expansive as the prairies. In her songs, she weaves wonderful stories of ordinary people that are deeply rooted in Canadian soil.
She released two albums in the 90′s, ‘Straight Line’ and ‘Habits and Heroes’. Her long awaited new album, Landed is now available on her website. You can find her music at katherinewheatley.com.
I interviewed Katherine on the grounds of the Canterbury Folk Festival in Ingersoll in the midst of their 10th anniversary celebration. You can hear some of the festivities going on around us.
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Michelle Rumball has been a fixture of the Toronto Music scene for almost 20 years. In the early 90s she was lead singer for folk-rock legends, The Grevious Angels. She now writes and performs as a solo singer-songwriter, as a member of the new trio Beauty Saloon, and in a number of bands around Toronto. I caught up to her at the wonderful Rockin’ The Cradle series of concerts promoted by my sister as a venue for people who love music with babies and young children.
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Taylor Davison is a high school student and songwriter. We had a chat on the Sunday morning of our our songwriting group’s winter getaway weekend. My apologies if I sound tired. It was a music filled weekend.
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