Modern Folk
Sounds and stories of folk music in a modern age
Started with a project that I’ve been dreaming of. I’m going to find people who, in this modern age, still play folk music. I want to interview them, find out how they came about to be playing this music, hear what this music means to them, learn the stories behind this music that resonate for their whole community, and then to film them playing their music!
Kerala Songs in Niagara Falls, NY
I had not expected that life in Toronto would keep sending me across the US border. But securing immigration papers has meant my traveling thrice…
Welcome back … I mean, welcome to Canada!
I will confess off the bat to having committed what I have discovered to a big faux pax here: namely, thinking that a move to…
Dutch folk songs from Ate Doornbosch’s collection
25 years have now passed since the last broadcast of the Dutch radio presenter, Ate Doornbosch, who spent between 1957 to 1993 criss-crossing the Netherlands,…
Midwinterhoorn ceremony at winter solstice 2017
Now that spring has broken, it is finally time to complete projects that have lain dormant through the dark days of the year. Here is…
Backstage at the recording sessions
Last year wrapped up with the completion of recording sessions for my CD, “Folk Tunes, Translated”. I won the Prix de Salon from the Royal…