Dispatches from the Mariposa Folk Festival – Day 2 (Saturday) daytime workshops
For weather watchers going into this weekend’s Mariposa Folk Festival — and who isn’t a weather watcher among festival goers and organizers —things looked...
Dispatches from the Mariposa Folk Festival – Night 1 (Friday)
I started off the evening at the Pub Stage, where Blue Moon Marquee were knocking out the full-house crowd with their greasy, high-energy brands...
The Chat Room: Mike Boguski
For the past several years, Blue Rodeo keyboardist Mike Boguski has been exploring a range of sonic avenues with some of Toronto’s finest musicians...
The Mariposa Folk Festival: the songwriters
The Mariposa Folk Festival, taking place this weekend in Orillia's Tudhope Park, is one of the premier showcases for Canada’s greatest songwriters, and the...
Shannon Thunderbird’s “lost and found” is inspired by children lost at residential school
"Lost and Found" is the latest video off the album Walking Through the Fire by Sultans of String. Ts’msyen Elder Shannon Thunderbird wrote and...
Richard Barry’s must-see list for the Mariposa Folk Festival
It had been a while since I'd attended a Mariposa Folk Festival prior to visiting the beautiful Tudhope Park site last year.
I was reminded...
Album review: Lynne Hanson – Just a Poet
Ottawa-based singer-songwriter Lynne Hanson has released her 10th studio album called Just a Poet.
Lynne has again teamed up with producer Jim Bryson, who produced...
8 reasons why Mariposa 2024 will be a feast for my hungry ears
The Mariposa Folk Festival unfolds this weekend in Orillia, and as always, it's a veritable smorgasbord of talent. After a long winter of watching...