Vancouver Folk Music Festival Scrapbook

Utah Phillips

2008-06-01T09:25:00.000-07:00

On the evening of May 23, 2008, the VFMF family lost a brother and mentor to heart failure, at the age of 73.

Throughout the history of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Utah has had a profound effect on how the Festival has evolved through the years and his philosophies and wisdom will continue to live through the many creative minds of the next generation of 'hell-raisers' singing good songs and sharing bad jokes.

Montage

2008-03-19T07:01:00.000-07:00

When I discovered that Dugg Simpson had left the Festival I struggled to find the words to let Dugg know how much he had enriched my musical sense . I'm not as good with the spoken word as I am with my visual memories. Dugg, this one is for you!

Make video montages at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Give the Festival For the Holidays

2007-12-11T18:33:00.000-08:00

Welcome!

2007-08-09T11:20:00.001-07:00

Introduction

When I first discovered the Vancouver Folk Music Festival during 2000, which marked the 23rd year of the celebration of music and dance at Vancouver's Jericho beach. This Vancouver Folk Music Scrapbook features my personal images and memories of the past seven years at the festival.

Enjoy!

Be sure to stop back often as this is an ongoing project.

Photos Copywrite Gayle Olson 2000-2007 unless indicated otherwise.
Commentaries courtesy of the VFMF artist mini-bios which were researched and written by Dugg Simpson and Sarah Kim, with editing by Julia Markus and Anna Nobile, and proofing by Renée Doruyter.

More photos available at the Flickr Vancouver Folk Festival Group:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/folkfest/

Stop by and share your Festival views. New members welcome!

Visit the Official Festival site

Keep The Music Playing - Support Your Festival!

Become a Member

Become involved with YOUR Festival.

Here's to our future - Discover how you can help ensure a sustainable future for the Festival:

Membership - Become a member of the Festival society or renew your existing membership. For $30 you can stake your claim in the Festival, attend the AGM and vote for the Board of Director. Memberships and donations of $30 or more receive tax receipts.
Sustaining Membership - Become a Sustaining Member of the Festival. A monthly donation of any amount keeps our cash flowing throughout the year.
Drink Your Blend - Drink Ethical Bean's Folk Music Festival Blend coffee all year. With partial proceeds going to support the Festival, this is one of the tastiest ways of helping us while also supporting fiar trade coffee growers. Give it as gifts to family and friends or make it your workplace coffee. Every bean counts.
Fundraise With Friends - Think of having a house concert, a clothes swap, a Folk Music Festival reunion in winter - just use your imagination, raise good old money and have fun. There will be special acknowledgements next year for those who go the extra mile.
Create New Partnerships - Encourage your company or organization to become a Festival Partner and contribute to the Festival as part of its outreach and community-building. From donating goods we might need in the Park or office, to services, or cash, there are lots of ways to help. Partnership guideline information is available here. (PDF file)

Click Here to contact your Festival

Yours to Share

2007-07-30T14:37:00.000-07:00

We're sharing our Vancouver Folk Music Festival memories at
Flickr and
YouTube.
Please join us!

Folk Festival Video

2007-07-29T09:59:00.000-07:00

Do you have video taken during the Festival? Consider joining our community at YouTube!

Next...

2007-07-25T09:13:00.001-07:00

The Collaboratory brought artists together before the Festival weekend to get to know each other, learn about each other's music and develop new music together for the weekend. The response from artists and audiences was so strong and so positive that the anniversary project has been remixed every year since 2002.

This year's Collaboratory, Next..., was the first Collaboratory to be presented on the Evening Concert Stage. It's based in the Festivals' growing creative community and in the neighbourhoods and nightclubs of Vancouver. Like past collaborations, it's based in music but from the earliest discussions, everyone involved wanted this version to go further. Dance, performance art and video were all included in this this special event. Beyond increasing the fear factor, complexity and resulting flow of adrenalin, everyone felt more voices was the right step.

Full biography at VFMF

Music Available at Amazon

Paul Belen (no luck club)
• Prosperity
• Happiness

Allison Russel (Po' Girl)
• Home To You
• Po' Girl
• Vagabond Lullabies

Adham Shaikh
• Collectivity
• Journey To the Sun
• Essence
• Drift

Anupam Shobhakar
• Mysterious Awakening

Tanya Tagaq
• Sinaa
• Tradition

Learn More About Featured Artists

Video by Tarun Nayar

A Walkabout with the POV Cam and the Folks during Next...

Utah Phillips

2007-07-24T18:46:00.001-07:00

Any analysis of this Festival's DNA would turn up a whole lot of Utah Phillips. His passions, and they are many, for music, history, justice, fun, and his intense curiosity and ability to see connections, have inspired much that is good about this weekend in the Park.

Full biography at VFMF

Music available from Amazon

Learn More About Utah Phillips

The Wailin' Jennys

2007-07-24T14:52:00.000-07:00

The Wailin' Jennys: Two albums, two Juno nominations, three extraordinary voices.

During the last six years, the Jennys have toured the world and offered audiences crystalline solace for broken hearts and life's setbacks. The trio are regular favourites on the National Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion for their meadow-bright harmonies and easy humour.

Full biography at VFMF

Music Available at Amazon

• 40 Days
• Firecracker

MySpace
Website

Sofia (Salt)

2007-07-24T13:43:00.001-07:00

Nothing is more powerful than the human voice. And when it comes to some of the most wide-ranging voices around, Allison Russell and Awna Teixeira have some of the sweetest that this country has seen.

Full biography at VFMF

MySpace
Website

Old Man Luedecke

2007-07-24T12:23:00.000-07:00

Mr. Luedecke (pronounced loo de key) seems too young to be so old school. He is something of an enigma, a rural man who writes of cities, a banjo player in the time of the turntable, and unplugged in extremis during a very wired era.

Full biography at VFMF

Music Available at Amazon

• Hinterland

MySpace

Website

Karen Savoca and Pete Heitzman

2007-07-24T11:23:00.000-07:00

Grit and sensitivity. Percussion and groove. Karen Savoca and partner Pete Heitzman craft and perform duets as "sinuous as two skaters gliding across ice," and they lay their voices across soul, R&B, and world rhythms that conjure a communion between audience and stage.

Full biography at VFMF

Music Available from Amazon

• In the Dirt
• All My Excuses
• Here We Go
• Sunday In Nandua
• On River Road

Website

Sarah Jane Morris

2007-07-23T19:38:00.000-07:00

Ms. Morris has been described as: sultry, seismic, provocative, infamous, outspoken, unorthodox, truly independent, her own woman, uncompromising, soaring, swooping, sensual and sophisticated, river deep, mountain high, and as one of the world's great jazz-soul vocalists.

Full biography at VFMF

Music Available at Amazon

• Love and Pain
• After All These Years
• Blue Valentine
• August
• Fallen Angel
• Heaven

Sunset with Sarah Jane Morris

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Walkabout with the Point-of-View Cam as the sun sets over the Pacific. Festival Folks dancin', hoopin', playin' and jugglin' as Sarah Jane Morris serenades.

Tapia eta Leturia

2007-07-23T14:49:00.000-07:00

Their music may seem quintessentially traditional to our ears, but at home Tapia eta Leturia are regarded as The Pogues of Basque music. From their early days in 1984 as a duo of trikitixa (diatonic accordion) and tambourine, their passionate approach has amped up the level of interest in the music at home and abroad.

Full biography at VFMF

Music available at Amazon

• Canada Tour 1996

Website

The Carolina Chocolate Drops

2007-07-23T13:24:00.000-07:00

The Carolina Chocolate Drops are Rhiannon Giddens (banjo, fiddle, and voice); Justin Robinson, (fiddle and voice); and Dom Flemmons, (guitar, banjo, jug, harmonica, snare, and voice). Their name "is a tribute-or homage, if you will-to a band from the 1920s called The Tennessee Chocolate Drops that was a well-known black string band with Howard Armstrong who was a fantastic fiddler and mandolin player.

Full biography at VFMF

Music Available at Amazon

• Dona Got A Ramblin' Mind

MySpace

Website

Carolina Chocolate Drops at the Stage 6 Heard in the Hills workshop.

Kellylee Evans

2007-07-23T11:55:00.001-07:00

Quincy Jones, Al Jarreau, Kurt Elling, Jane Bunnett and Tony Bennett have all been impressed by her voice and the energy she brings to the stage.

When Kellylee participated in the Thelonius Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition at The Kennedy Centre in Washington, DC she was awarded her second place, a phenomenal showing for a young artist with only a few performances to her name.

Full biography at VFMF

Music available at Amazon

• Fight or Flight?

MySpace

Website

30 Years in 60 Minutes with Timothy Wisdom

2007-07-23T10:48:00.000-07:00

Timothy has been DJing for over a decade across the country. An engineer at the decks and on the mic, he is known for his crazy scratching, instant remixes and amusing antics, earning him the title of "one of Vancouver's top party DJs."

With access to Festival Artistic Director, Dugg Simpson's vinyl and CD collection of past performers, Timothy has sorted through hundreds of songs and pieced them together like a musical quilt, premiering at the Festival. The performance was an incredible trip through Festival history!

Dancing Folks celebrate 30 years of real music with DJ/Turntablist wizard Timothy Wisdom, Fiddler Jaron Freeman-Fox, and percussionist Sasha Levin.

For the 30th anniversary of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Creative Directors Dugg Simpson and Sarah Kim commissioned DJ Timothy Wisdom to put together a DJ mix of music by artists who have played at the Festival in the past 30 years. Timothy went to work digging through old recordings and remixing snippets of audio to create this historical collage. The result is banjo meets breakbeats, fiddle verses flanger and a 60 minute mashup of various styles of folk from traditional to avant-garde and local to global.

Limited CDs are available at "Drive Organics" on Commercial Drive, Vancouver.
1045 Commercial Dr. 604-678-9665

You Are Here: Rae Spoon & Ivan Coyote

2007-07-23T09:19:00.001-07:00

Ivan Coyote and Rae Spoon's brand-new multimedia adventure You Are Here is one part family legend, one part hometown lament, and one part commentary on the corporate colonization of our country, flavoured by bluegrass ballads and served with a side of super-8 home movies from the '60s.

Full biography at VFMF

DVD by Ivan Coyote

• Transmission Vol. 2

Music from Rae Spoon

• White Hearse Comes Rolling
• Trucker's Memorial

Geoff Berner

2007-07-22T14:36:00.001-07:00

While Geoff Berner may be the spirit guide of the Brand, the Wedding Dance of the Widow bride is the work of the ensemble. Diona Davies' fiddle playing wails with a mad joy that scratches at the window and whispers away into the night, while Wayne Adams percussion is primal tribal.

In recent years, Geoff Berner has been engaged in a passionate pursuit of the roots of klezmer, a music born in Jewish communities in Russia and eastern Europe Klezmer is made by bands of Jewish musicians mixed with Roma, and other players that were the live entertainment at weddings and other celebrations.

Full biography at VFMF

Music Available at Amazon

• The Wedding Dance of the Widow Bride
• Whisky Rabbi

Geoff Berner MySpace
Geoff Berner Website
How To Be An Accordion Player - Book by Geoff Berner
Po' Girl/Diona Davies MySpace
Wayne Adams MySpace

Mushfig Ensemble

2007-07-22T12:38:00.000-07:00

The Mushfig Ensemble are mesmerizing in performance with powerful vocals, rich sonic textures and intricate rhythms performed on tabla, violin, tanpura and harmonium.

Singing in a dozen languages, they play Afghani and Indian traditional folk, devotional songs, audience clap-along qawwalis and more.

The ensemble is Mushfig Hashimi on vocals and harmonium, Said Moheb Hasimy on tabla, Cindy Babyn on violin and Sujata Verma on tanpura and supporting vocals.

Complete biography at the VFMF Website

Mushfig Hashimi Website

Liz Carroll and John Doyle

2007-07-22T11:19:00.001-07:00

Although she is from America, Liz Carroll is considered to be one of the finest Irish fiddlers in the world, having won the Junior All-Irelands, the senior All-Irelands, and at home she was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship, the highest accolade in America in folk and traditional arts.

Playing with Liz is John Doyle, a guitarist who has played with own Irish-American band, Solas, with Chanting House, and Susan McKeown. He has toured with Eileen Ivers, Tim O'Brien, Kate Rusby and Linda Thompson, to name a few.

Complete biography at the VFMF Website

Music Available at Amazon

• In Play

Liz Carroll

• Lost in the Loop
• Lake Effect
• Friend Indeed: Irish Fiddle and Piano
• Liz Carroll

John Doyle

• Wayward Son

The Folks dance during the Heard in the Hills Workshop featuring Liz Carroll and John Doyle with Carolina Chocolate Drops and Tapia Eta Leturia.

Bitch and the Exciting Conclusion

2007-07-22T08:06:00.000-07:00

It was a treat to have Bitch back at the Festival. Since her visit with Animal five years ago she has matured both physically and as an artist. Bitch has a new three-piece ensemble now which includes energetic drummer Lee Free, and the multi-talented Daniela Sea.

Whether through her singing or spoken word Bitch never fails to get her message across. One writer described their listening experience as "A menage a trois featuring Sandra Bernhard, Laurie Anderson and Che Guevera." Another suggest she is "One part Ani DiFranco, one part Indigo Girls, and one part Laurie Anderson."

Actor Daniela Sea belonged to a few punk rock bands before her role of Max on the The L Word. At the Festival she proved to be versatile on the keyboard, violin and guitar.

Dexterous drummer Lee Free completes the trio . Her cutting edge style and energy is a perfect fit for the Exciting Conclusion.

Full biography at VFMF

Music Available at Amazon

• Make This/Break This

Bitch & Animal

• Eternally Hard
• What's That Smell?
• Sour Juice and Rhyme

Bitch's MySpace

Bitch's Website

Daniela's MySpace

Daniela's Website

Lee's MySpace

Lee's Website

900 Million

Dancing with Bitch and Ganga Gi

Tanya Tagaq

2007-07-21T11:34:00.001-07:00

Tanya's music is not like any other singer. She's not even like any other Innu singer, but she is deeply grounded in its tradition.

It is not so much that she makes the music as she IS the music, making it very clear that throat singing is a very limited label.

For a number of years Tanya has been collaborating with DJ Michael Red. Through his laptop and a few tools Michael is able to loop and process Tanya's voice and weave in a few samples he has collected in Tanya's home town of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.

Full biography at VFMF

Music Available at Amazon

• Sinaa
• Tradition

MySpace

Website

Adham Shaikh's Dreamtree Project

2007-07-21T06:26:00.001-07:00

The Dreamtree Project is an Indian dub fusion collective weaving a magic carpet ride of classical Indian raga afloat a dub cloud of swirling tabla, mystical flute, spacey beats and booming bass lines. Beyond notions of East meets West, the Dreamtree Project conjures a space for all who long to be seduced by the power of music and communal enlightenment.

Mystical! Although not seen during the performance, these golden balls appeared in each of the photos when developed.

The Dreamtree Project includes Adham Shaikh who has been producing music for 18 years with a keen ear towards world music, weaving the sounds of India, Bali, Australia, Africa, Jamaica, the Middle East, Slovakia, Scandinavia, Turkey, and North America, into all aspects of his production.

The Dreamtree Project also features sitar virtuoso Uwe Neumann and tabla player Shankar Das. After studying classical and jazz guitar in Germany for 14 years, Uwe moved to India where he lived and studied with sitar Maestro Pandit Indranil Bhattacharya, receiving both bachelor and master degrees on sitar from Indian University in Shantiniketan. Shankar Das studied with the legendary Alla Rakha and Zakir Hussain, almost twenty years ago and has since become a master percussion. Flauist Marty Carter completes the quartet.

Full biography at VFMF

Music Available at Amazon

Adham Shaikh

• Collectivity
• Journey To the Sun
• Essence
• Drift

Uwe Neumann

• Metta Yoga Sound Massage

We just couldn't stand still during the best 15-minute sound check ever!

Po' Girl

2007-07-20T18:07:00.001-07:00

Allison Russell, Awna Teixeira, Trish Klein, Diona Davies, and drummer John Raham, are favourites among many generations audiences at the Festival. Where Alison's voice is rich and bluesy, Trish, Diona and Awna offer a smoother tone, creating a quality where you can just sit back and get lost in the song and forget all of your troubles.

The music of Po' Girl includes the blues, a gypsy fiddle, punk rock street poetry, Cajun love songs, Depression-era jazz, R&B and soul.

A versatile group, their collection of instruments include banjo, clarinet, slide guitar, piano, accordion, gutbucket bass, harmonica, penny-whistle, mandolin, violin, and more!

Full biography at VFMF

Group solidarity before the taping for CBC's radio programme Canada Live.

Music Available at Amazon

• Home To You
• Po' Girl
• Vagabond Lullabies

MySpace

Website

Ganga Giri

2007-07-20T16:36:00.001-07:00

From the south eastern coast of Australia, Ganga Giri brings forth ancient rhythms and future explorations of sound.

Ganga Giri features musicians, percussionists, Aboriginal singers and dancers, a DJ, and visual artists, from all corners of the globe.

Using the didgeridoo (idaki) as a tool of communication, Ganga invokes an ancestral world in the present moment through music.

Full biography at VFMF

Music Available at Amazon

• Tribe Vibe
• Didj Mania
• Termite Grooves

MySpace

Website

The Fugitives

2007-07-20T11:47:00.001-07:00

The Fugitives is the collective of multi-talented Vancouverites, Barbara Adler, Mark Berube, and Brendan McLeod.

There music can be described as slam-folk, folk-hop, spoken word folk cabaret, it is essentially storytelling, incorporating elements of stand up comedy, folk tales, lyrics and performance poems.

Full biography at VFMF

MySpace

Website

Brendan McLeod MySpace

Barbara Adler MySpace

Mark Berube MySpace

Mark Berube Website

Dougie MacLean

2007-07-20T11:13:00.000-07:00

Dougie MacLean grew up in the in the country in Scotland, and the music began there, first with his dad on the fiddle and his mom on the mandolin, and then with a pair of school frinds named Andy Stewart and martin Hadden.

While busking one day in 1974, Roy Gullane invited Dougie to join the Tannahill Weavers, where he remained for seven years. Since 1981 he has been playing solo, and for the past 25 years he has become one of the finest songwriters and performers in Scotland.

Full biography at VFMF

Music Available at Amazon

• Inside the Thunder
• Live: From the Ends of the Earth
• Tribute
• The Dougie MacLean Collection
• Marching Mystery
• Plant Life Years
• Snaigow
• Ingigneous
• On A Wing and A Prayer
• The Search
• Riof
• Perthshire Amber
• Craigie Dhu
• Whitewash
• The Titan
• Sunset Song
• Singing Land

MySpace

Website

Bhangra Authentic

2007-07-20T10:35:00.000-07:00

Appearing on the Friday Mainstage, Bhangra Authentic was an entertaining and educational experience from Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration.

The roots of bhangra is in the country with music that helped to keep things moving at harvest time in Punjab, a region spanning northern India and eastern Pakistan.

The main instrument, traditionally, is a double-headed drum called the dhol.

Full biography at VFMF

Website

Festival POV

2007-07-12T07:57:00.000-07:00

http://flickr.com/groups/folkfest/

We want to enjoy your point-of-view.

Share your Festival photos!

Welcome to the Vancouver Folk Music Scrapbrook Project

2006-12-31T13:09:00.000-08:00

Introduction

When I first discovered the Vancouver Folk Music Festival during 2000, which marked the 23rd year of the celebration of music and dance at Vancouver's Jericho beach. This Vancouver Folk Music Scrapbook features my personal images and memories of the past six years at the festival.

Enjoy!

Be sure to stop back often as this is an ongoing project.

Photos Copywrite Gayle Olson 2000-2005 unless indicated otherwise.
Commentaries courtesy of the VFMF artist mini-bios which were researched and written by Dugg Simpson and Sarah Kim, with editing by Julia Markus and Anna Nobile, and proofing by Renée Doruyter.

More photos available at the Flickr Vancouver Folk Festival Group:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/folkfest/

Stop by and share your Festival views. New members welcome!

Visit the Official Festival site

Keep The Music Playing - Support Your Festival!

Become a Member

Become involved with YOUR Festival.

Here's to our future - Discover how you can help ensure a sustainable future for the Festival:

Membership - Become a member of the Festival society or renew your existing membership. For $30 you can stake your claim in the Festival, attend the AGM and vote for the Board of Director. Memberships and donations of $30 or more receive tax receipts.
Sustaining Membership - Become a Sustaining Member of the Festival. A monthly donation of any amount keeps our cash flowing throughout the year.
Drink Your Blend - Drink Ethical Bean's Folk Music Festival Blend coffee all year. With partial proceeds going to support the Festival, this is one of the tastiest ways of helping us while also supporting fiar trade coffee growers. Give it as gifts to family and friends or make it your workplace coffee. Every bean counts.
Fundraise With Friends - Think of having a house concert, a clothes swap, a Folk Music Festival reunion in winter - just use your imagination, raise good old money and have fun. There will be special acknowledgements next year for those who go the extra mile.
Create New Partnerships - Encourage your company or organization to become a Festival Partner and contribute to the Festival as part of its outreach and community-building. From donating goods we might need in the Park or office, to services, or cash, there are lots of ways to help. Partnership guideline information is available here. (PDF file)

Click Here to contact your Festival

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Dance @ Twilight

2006-07-20T18:46:00.000-07:00

Twilight, Friday and the beginning of the 29th Annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanfolkfest/190013960/
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Dancing in the wedge. It's all good, as Vancouver's best summer party gets underway.

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Friday Evening, 2006

2006-07-20T18:42:00.000-07:00

Friday Evening, 2006
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Folk Festival blanket real estate is in great demand Friday night as the crowd settles down to a night of music and dance.

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In the Shade

2006-07-20T18:30:00.000-07:00

The Festival features seven stages, whether you choose to dance in the sunshine or prefer to settle in a shady grove of trees , you will find whatever you need to be comfortable while you listen to artists from across the globe.

In the Shade
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

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Dubbledance

2006-07-20T12:25:00.000-07:00

dubbledance
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Groovin' in the sunshine to the dub sound of Dubblestandart.

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Creative Kids

2006-07-20T12:24:00.000-07:00

creative kids
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

The Festival is family and kid-friendly with music, games, and activities for the young and the young at heart.

At the Little Folk area kids and thier families will enjoy hands-on creative activities, Circus Arts, face painting, waterworks, free play and special concerts with children in focus.

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Good Grinds

2006-07-20T12:15:00.000-07:00

food
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

All that dancing makes for a good appetite and the food area offers international cuisine and other goodies.

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hoops

2006-07-20T12:12:00.000-07:00

hoops
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

"Happiness spoken here."

And we have the hoops to prove it! Hula-hoopers of all ages display their rhythmic moves in the grassy clearing between stages 5 and 6. This is the strategic location where you can enjoy the tunes from both stages at the same time! Bonus, there is plenty of shade under the trees.

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What me trad?

2006-07-20T12:08:00.000-07:00

what me trad?
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Workshop hosted by James Keelaghan and featuring Salt and Bethany & Rufus.

James Keelaghan at Amazon

James Keelaghan Website - MySpace

Salt at Amazon

Salt Website

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Nucleus: Act 4

2006-07-20T12:03:00.000-07:00

Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Saluting The Grande Mothers.

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Nucleus: Act 3

2006-07-20T12:01:00.000-07:00

Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

The troupe at Stage Six.

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Nucleus: Act 2

2006-07-20T11:49:00.000-07:00

Nucleus: Act 2
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

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Nucleus: Act 1

2006-07-20T11:37:00.000-07:00

Nucleus: Act 1
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Nucleus incorporates circus arts, physical theatre, movement, costumes, props and masks to create a dream-like world.

Nucleus Website

Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration

2006-07-20T11:27:00.000-07:00

Bhangra is a form of dance and music that was founded sometime in the 1400s. Traditionally performed in celebration of the harvest, bhangra performers sing Punjabi Boliyaan lyrics that are often accompanied by the dhol.

Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

The Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration Website

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Dubblestandart

2006-07-20T09:52:00.000-07:00

Dublestandart began in 1990, working as a collective to craft a nwe style of dub. The band is based in Vienna, Austria and their music honours the roots of dub and broadcasting resistence from their hometown.

Dubblestandart
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Dubblestandart Music Available at Amazon

Dubblestandart Website - MySpace

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Najma Akhtar

2006-07-20T09:51:00.001-07:00

Najma
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

When Najima released her first album released a record called Qareeb (Closeness). The songs fused jazz and ghazals into music made for a voice to soar over - and it did - captivating listeners and critics on two continents.

Najima's Music Available at Amazon

Najima Akhtar Website

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The Mammals

2006-07-20T09:51:00.000-07:00

Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

The Mammals range over a vast musical terrain, from traditional ballads to Morphine and Kurt Cobain.

Music from The Mammals Available at Amazon

Mammals Website

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Friday Evening, 2006

2006-07-20T09:49:00.000-07:00

Friday evening clouds and a few sprinkles greeted festival fans on Friday evening. Before the evening was over a rainbow appeared briefly over the city of Vancouver and the clouds broke away in time for the signature festival sunset.

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Friday Evening, 2006
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The Angel Brothers

2006-07-20T09:48:00.000-07:00

Saturday morning set with The Angel Brothers, an all-acoustic bhangra-delic funk-folk fusion ensemble based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England.

The Angel Brothers Website

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The Angel Brothers
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Tribute to bollywood

2006-07-20T09:45:00.000-07:00

tribute to bollywood
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Debuting on this Angel Brothers tour is Bombay-born, London-based vocalist Sandhya Sanjana.

Angel Brothers Music Available at Amazon UK

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dancing to the beat

2006-07-20T09:43:00.000-07:00

Blue sky, sunshine and drummer/percussionist Keith Angel "gettin' down" on the grass with nid-mroning dancers.

dancing to the beat
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it's all about the attitude

2006-07-20T09:39:00.000-07:00

Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Utah Phillips, Ed Hamell, Dan Bern and Dubblestandart on the stage and it's all about the attitude? ... all good!

Utah Phillips Website - MySpace

Hamell On Trial Website

Dan Bern Website - MySpace

Dubblestandart Website - MySpace

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talkin' story... Utah style

2006-07-20T09:37:00.000-07:00

Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Utah sharing one of his "way back when..." stories with Ed and Dan during a short power outage on Stage Five. "He cracks me up!" is the response from Hamell on Trial.

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Attitude... All Good

2006-07-20T09:36:00.000-07:00

Attitude... All Good
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Adding a bit of dubblestandart dub to the attitude mix.

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breakdance

2006-07-20T09:35:00.000-07:00

breakdance
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

An impromptu break dance battle at Stage 7 to the turntablism tunes of the no luck club.

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Cyro Baptista

2006-07-20T09:33:00.000-07:00

Cyro Baptista
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Cyro Baptista of Supergenerous in a workshop hosted by the Grande Mothers.

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Dan Bern

2006-07-20T09:32:00.000-07:00

Dan Bern
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

According to Artistic Director, Dugg Simpson, "Dan is an apple-cart upsetter, a writer, a visual artist, songwriter, pain in the butt, tennis menace, band leader, baseball geek and brother. He's got authority and a bullship detector that updates daily."

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Dugg

2006-07-20T09:31:00.000-07:00

dugg
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Artistic Director, Dugg Simpson grooves out to a Grande Mothers special request.

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Generasian X

2006-07-20T09:28:00.000-07:00

Generasian X
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Workshop hosted by Lal and featuring Najma and the Angel Brothers.

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Don Preston

2006-07-20T09:27:00.000-07:00

Don Preston
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Grande Mother Keyboarist Don Preston dicussing a Zappaism with the Festival fans.

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The Grande Mothers

2006-07-20T09:25:00.000-07:00

The Grande Mothers
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

A question-and-answer session with the Grande Mothers, as band-members contemplate the origin of various Frank Zappa songs.

Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention at Amazon

The Grande Mothers Website

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Hamell on Trial

2006-07-20T09:23:00.000-07:00

Hamell on trial
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

In-your-face, outspoken commentary on the world from Ed Hamell the ranting, string-slamming singer/songwriter!

Hamell on Trial at Amazon

Hamell On Trial Website

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The Mammals

2006-07-20T09:21:00.000-07:00

The Mammals
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Sharing some music for a Saturday morning on Stage One.

Mammals Website

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Mighty Popo

2006-07-20T09:20:00.000-07:00

Mighty Popo
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Mighty Popo was born a refugee in Burundi and grew up in the capital city of Bujumbura where he was strongly influenced by an eclectic mix of music while he was young: West African juju and highlife, South African township jive, Caribbean reggae, alypso and soca, and American blues and R&B.

Available at Amazon Canada

Ngagara

The Mighty Popo Website

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Urunana rw'abadatana

2006-07-20T09:16:00.000-07:00

Urunana rw'abadatana
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

The Batwa people of Rwanda are people of the forest. Song is the principal way they communicate with the forest.

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Napoleon Murphy Brock

2006-07-20T09:13:00.000-07:00

Napolean Murphy Brock
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

The Grande Mothers Napoleon Murphy Brock started singing in a Baptist church when he was five and he's never stopped.

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no artificial sweetener

2006-07-20T09:08:00.000-07:00

no artificial sweetener
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

James Keelaghan hosts the Saturday mid-morn worlshop featuring Dan Bern, Mihirangi, Oliver Schroer, Ndidi Onukwulu and Madagascar Slim.

Tunes Available at Amazon by the Artists

James Keelaghan

James Keelaghan Website - MySpace

Dan Bern

Dan Bern Website - MySpace

Oliver Schroer

Oliver Schroer Website

Ndidi Onukwulu

No I Never

Ndidi Onukwulu Website

Madagascar Slim

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Ndidi Onukwulu

2006-07-20T09:03:00.000-07:00

Ndidi Onukwulu
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

With parents of Nigerian heritage, both the drive to overcome oppression and singing as a means of resistence is in Ndidi Onukwulu's blood.

Ndidi Onukwulu at Amazon

No I Never

Ndidi Onukwulu Website

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Mihirangi

2006-07-20T08:57:00.000-07:00

Mihirangi
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

A one-woman show, Mihirangi was born and raised in Aotearoa, land of the long cloud, and she is deeply rooted in the music of her heritage.

Mihirangi Website - MySpace

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Alison Russell

2006-07-20T08:53:00.000-07:00

Alison Russell
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Catching Salt's Alison Russell in a contemplative moment.

Music from Salt at Amazon

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not two be

2006-07-20T08:51:00.000-07:00

not two be
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Collaboratory featuring Barbara Adler, Ganesh Anandan (Ga Gi), Kytami, Alex Maher, Alison Russel (Salt) and Timothy Wisdom.

Ganesh Anandan MySpace

Kytami MySpace

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Kytami

2006-07-20T08:50:00.000-07:00

Collaboratory' not, two, be
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Kytami is an eclectic electric one-woman violin revolution and currently she is the member of four groups: Third Eye Tribe, Blackie LeBlanc, the Kytami Revolution, and the indie pirate-rock group, Lownote.

Kytami MySpace

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Old Songs New Voices

2006-07-20T08:40:00.000-07:00

Old Songs New Voices
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Workshop hosted by Salt, featuring Sine Lauitsen (Zar) and Sandhya Sanjana (The Angel Brothers).

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Salt

Salt Website

Zar

Zar Website

Angel Brothers

The Angel Brothers Website

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Oliver Schroer

2006-07-20T08:37:00.000-07:00

Oliver Schroer
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Unlike some of his fellow sonic explorers in New Music and Improvised Music, Oliver's music always stays connected to the listener. Every piece he plays springs from a story, a memory of a place in this world and he has a gift for telling you just enough of that story that as he starts to play, and you start to listen, you are setting out from the same place together.

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Oliver Schroer Website

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Supergenerous

2006-07-20T08:34:00.000-07:00

supergenerous
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

"Loco techno… freaky mambo… Sorta folk-jazz-world-bluegrass-Brazilian-old-timey-blues-cowboy," is one term when trying to describe Supergenerous.

Supergenerous at Amazon

Supergenerous

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Peaches En Regalia & Other Favorites

2006-07-20T08:27:00.000-07:00

Peaches En Regalia & Other Favorites
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

An afternoon set hosted by the Grande Mothers and featuring The Sisters Euclid and Cyro Baptista of Supergenerous.

Music from the Artists at Amazon

Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention

The Grande Mothers Website

Sisters Euclid

Run Neil Run

Sisters Euclid Website

Supergenerous

Supergenerous

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Ridley Bent

2006-07-20T08:23:00.001-07:00

Ridley Bent
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Imagine if Eminem was Canadian, read Steinbeck and Louis L'Amour, and then connected the dots from hip hop to a few of the great global grooves that began when everything was still 'unplugged.' That's Ridley.

Ridley Bent at Amazon

Blam

Ridley Bent WebSite - MySpace

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Scratch 101 with the no luck club

2006-07-20T08:23:00.000-07:00

scratch101
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Featuring scratch and Mac club crew creating specially commissioned folk music circa 2006 from classic vinyl and secret samples.

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Happiness

no luck club website - MySpace

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Kevin Breit

2006-07-20T08:13:00.000-07:00

Kevin Breit
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Kevin jammed along with the Grande Mothers with members of the two bands he played with at the Festival, The Sisters Euclid and Supergenerous.

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Sisters Euclid

Run Neil Run

Sisters Euclid Website

Supergenerous

Supergenerous

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Ganga Giri

2006-07-20T08:09:00.000-07:00

Ganga Giri
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Explosive and pulsating, at times ambient and flowing, Ganga Giri's music is a pumping percussive, multi-layered experience of complex grooves and raw, deep natural sound, with the beat mimicking the heartbeat of the Earth and its people.

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Ganga Giri Website

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Ganesh Anandan

2006-07-20T08:07:00.000-07:00

Ganesh Anandan
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Ganesh works in a world of percussion instruments, many of which he built or modified: polytimbral frame drums such as the bodhran, bendir and daff; a metallophone (Indian mallet keyboard); kanjira and kanriqq tambourines; the cheng (Loation mouth organ); bansuri and kural bamboo flutes from north and south India respectively; the moorching mouth harp; and a Chinese reed instrument called the baou. His voice reflects the harmonic approaches and traditions he has studied around the world.

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Trad, Anon and On

2006-07-20T08:01:00.000-07:00

Trad, Anon and On
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Tim Readmon & Shona Le Motte host Bethany & Rufus, Linda Tillery & Nina Gerber, in a workshop under the shady trees at Stage 2.

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Linda Tillery Website

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Under Heavy Manners

2006-07-20T07:59:00.000-07:00

Lillian Allen, Big Bass Theory and Dubblestandart provide a high energy beat

Under Heavy Manners
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

entices the crowd to get up and shake it!
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Lillian Allen

Conditions Critical

Dubblestandart

Dubblestandart Website - MySpace

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Zar

2006-07-20T07:52:00.000-07:00

zar
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

The music loops and spins and soars inside a verse, let alone through a whole song. They have the chops, an amazing understanding of arrangements and, like so many players coming up, have assimilated whole worlds of music, from traditional to classical, to the radio, to the net.

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Zar Website

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Afrodizz

2006-07-20T07:41:00.000-07:00

Their music is inspired by Fela Kuti, the Nigerian poet, musician and community leader whose music was so original and so powerful that he practically defines a genre, Afrobeat, with a groove that can stand shoulder to shoulder with Bo Didley.

Afrodizz
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

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Bethany & Rufus

2006-07-20T07:39:00.000-07:00

While minimal in instrumentation - they use only cello and vocals - this duo is on the up and up in many musical circles for their deeply soulful and luscious groove sound.

Bethany & Rufus
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Bethany & Rufus Website

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Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration

2006-07-20T07:37:00.000-07:00

Stage One- Little Folks Concerts are a perfect place for kids to experience hands-on music play.

Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Collaboratory* two, be

2006-07-20T07:35:00.000-07:00

Featuring Barbara Adler, Ganesh Anandan, Kytami, Alex Maher, Alison Russell and Timothy Eisdom.

Learn more about Collaboratory.

Collaboratory* two, be
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Ganesh Anandan MySpace
Kytami MySpace

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In the Park with Dan Bern

2006-07-20T07:33:00.000-07:00

Dan Bern
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

An afternoon with Dan, under the trees.

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Dub Pacifica

2006-07-20T07:30:00.000-07:00

Big Bass Theory hosts Ganga Giri

Dub Pacifica
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

and Mihirangi.

Ganga Giri at Amazon

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Dyad

2006-07-20T07:28:00.000-07:00

Dyad
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

The music Dyad play has been called Hillbilly, Appalachian, Old Time, Roots, Americana and dozens of other names over the last 100 years. Whatever the name and hip quotient, the songs and the melodies just keep rolling along.
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Utah Moment

2006-07-20T07:26:00.000-07:00

Utah Moment
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

While other singer/songwriters can only write about the past, Utah has lived it and shares it through his songs and stories. He has ridden the rails and hoboed across the USA. He's fought in a war and on picket lines. He was arrested for his anti-war activities and was even a candidate for the US Senate.

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The Grande Mothers

2006-07-20T07:23:00.000-07:00

The Grande Mothers
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Rare are the musicians who can even play Zappa's music, let alone make it live and breathe.

Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention at Amazon

The Grande Mothers Website

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Ivan Coyote and Spread the Word

2006-07-20T07:20:00.000-07:00

Ivan Coyote
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.
Ivan Coyote and the fine art of storytelling, Ivan has becoem an audience favorite at music, poetry, spoken word and writer's festivals from Anchorage to New York City.

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Ivan Coyote Website

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Clifton Joseph

2006-07-20T07:18:00.000-07:00

Clifton Joseph
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Clifton's poetry dubs further into jazz than other dub poets in Jamaica or the UK. To him it's no stretch between Miles, Monk and Marley. Jazz is a natural to a poet who grew up closer to Chicago and New York than to Kingston, Jamaica.

Dub Poets Collective Website

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Jericho Dub Sound System

2006-07-20T07:11:00.000-07:00

Jericho Dub Sound System
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

The Dub Lab is a special project created especially for this Festival. Think of it as a Collaboratory with a heavy dub emphasis.

Third Eye Tribe Website - Third Eye Tribe MySpace

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Tanya

2006-07-20T07:04:00.000-07:00

Tanya
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Tanya uses her ever-growing understanding of her art, and her singular technical skills, to create music rooted in thousands of years of tradition and completely make it about this moment.

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Sinaa

Tanya Tagaq Website - MySpace

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Zar

2006-07-20T07:00:00.000-07:00

Zar
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

The spark that first brought Zar's instruments and Sine's voice together was a music initiative by the Danish government in Serbia in 2001.

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Zar Website

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Leaky Heaven Circus

2006-07-20T06:56:00.000-07:00

Leaky Heaven Circus
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

This circus has roots, right here in Vancouver. It began with a friend talking to a friend and then some friends getting together and getting together again, until one day these friends had a deadline and a map.

Leaky Heaven Circus Website

Lillian Allen

2006-07-20T06:52:00.000-07:00

Lillian Allen
Originally uploaded by folkfestfan.

Lillian was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica and grew up there during the revolutionary musical rise-up of rock-steady reggae and, of course, dub.

Lillian Allen at Amazon

Conditions Critical

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