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Playing Since: 1977
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[Teaching] [Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]
Occupation: music teacher/musician
Gender: Male
Age: 68
My Instruments:
no-name pre-war open-back, S.S.Stewart tenor, home-made fretless, home-made open-back.
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
John Hartford, Pete Seeger, Howie Burson, Mike Seeger, Tommy Thompson, Robin & Linda Williams, New Lost City Ramblers, Tom Paley, John Cohen, Red Clay Ramblers , Michael Cooney, Hedy West, Derroll Adams, Karen Dalton, Cathy Fink, Chris Coole , Arnie Naiman, Bob Carlin, Mac Benford, David Holt, Ola Belle Reed, Brian Pickell, Mac Benford, Wade Mainer, Roscoe Holcomb, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Raymond McLain, Gus Cannon, Dock Boggs.
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Also some friends from southern Ontario who may not be as famous, but I learn something every time I play with them or listen to them: Jay Edmonds, Rick Baur, Dennis Delorme, Karen Taylor, Kate Jarrett, Sam Allison and Teilhard Frost (who also builds wonderful gourd banjos)...
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You will notice that all of these (except John Hartford, whose playing I have loved since I first bought Morning Bugle thirty years ago) are old-time banjo players, since this is the type of banjo music I enjoy playing. I have many favourite musicians who play 3-finger/bluegrass style banjo (like Al Kirby) and tenor banjo and who play other instruments, but if I put them all down the list would be too long for anyone to bother to read it anyway. I realize that some of the players I have listed are also bluegrass players, but their old timey style was what attracted me to their playing.
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Thursday, March 08, 2012 @6:17:21 PM
1964 was the first year that the Mariposa Folk Festival was held in Toronto. It was held in Maple Leaf Stadium and some of the performers were Ian & Sylvia, The Greenbriar Boys, Joni Anderson (later Mitchell), Gord Lightfoot, Rev Gary Davis, Buffy St Marie, Mississippi John Hurt, Tom Kines, David Rea... With my brother Bob and our friend Dennis, I hitch-hiked down to Toronto and we set up our camp at the edge of the CNE grounds by the Princess Gates. The police didn't appreciate this so Terry Whelan, Gord Lightfoot's partner in the Tu-tones invited us to sleep in his back yard. There were about thirty of us there.
Here is a picture of a workshop that I took. The workshop participants are Rev Gary Davis, Gordon Lightfoot, Mississippi John Hurt and Tom Kines.
The photo on the left of "four young men, one with guitar" appeared in the Toronto Telegram. I just found it while browsing the Mariposa Archives site. That's me on the left with the glasses.
 
On the right above is a picture of the Greenbriar Boys on the main stage with the late John Herald on guitar, I believe Eric Weisburg is playing bass, Frank Wakefield is just peeking over the banjo player's shoulder. Who is the banjo player? It doesn't look like Bob Yellin. (Thanks to Don Borchelt and Greg Levasseur for identifying the banjo player above as the late Winnie Winston.)
Here's a better photo of Frank Wakefield:
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