Winterfolk Cascades Through The Downtown Danforth In Toronto

Alfie Smith's solid blue kickoff ignited Toronto's 13th annual Winterfolk frolic Friday at Danforth and Broadview

The Heavyweights Brass Band stirred up a profound crisis of stomp and holler and then marched away into the night.

 

West coast roots hero David Essig applied a deft slide to his 12-string guitar, which he calls "the steam locomotive of the blues", educating and rousing a rapt audience.

The Jessica Stuart Few unpacked their jazz / folk / manga repertoire at Terrio's with a tight and trippy performance.

Rae Billing and Lynn Miles shared wisdom, wit and harmony yodelling with an afternoon audience at The Black Swan and Linda McRae provided a country quilt of stories and songs, ending with a singalong on "Be Your Own Light".

Noah Zacharin's fingerstyle embroidery decorated the afternoon for an amiable crowd at Dora Keough.

Kristine Schmitt busted homestyle rambles at Dora's evening showcase as Hotcha's Beverley and Howard, and chantistas Isabel Fryszberg and Clela Errington gave full frontal support.

 The O`Pears enchanted a room that was just about ready to hoot with elaborate harmonic ideas and original melodies of persuasive distinction.

Whoa Nelly popped fuses with their highly charged country swing and ballads.

And The Wanted gave us a hot chance for a Saturday night wail-along with 

These Boots Are Made For Walkin`, amongst other classics.

Photos by Paul & Kim Corby

Playlist for Show Of Friday The 13th Of February

Commissioner of Selection: Paul Corby

( brought to you by Audible Auricles, Visible Ventricles and Cardiac Convertibles )

Guests : Linda McRea and Sina Salimi

5-7 p.m. online http://www.radioregent.com/ and at tunein.com .  
Canadians in Asterisk’d RED.

Videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/CorbysOrbit?feature=mhee

5:00 Trance Ending

(February is African Heritage Month)

* Jojo Bennett feat. Ken Lazarus ~ Make It Roots, Reality & Culture NEW DISK

Wasis Diop ~ Dames Electriques / N.O.P. ~ No Sant

Jah Cure ~ All Of Me

Beck ~ Heart Is A Drum ~ Morning Phase

5:20 Outliving 

*Linda McRea ~ Be Your Own Light / Interview / Singing River (live) / Flowers Of Appalachia (live) ~ Fifty Shades Of Red / Shadow Trails (unreleased)

5:45  Instrumelting

* Lenny Solomon ~ Slow Slide Into Blues ~ The Blues Violin NEW DISK @ The Jazz Bistro Tuesday 17 February

* Jayme Stone feat. Margaret Glaspy ~ Maids When You're Young ~ Lomax Project NEW DISK

* Sina Salimi ~ Interview / Departure (live) / Where Do Our Dreams Go? ~ @ Revival Saturday  https://www.facebook.com/events/942246885792951/

6:15 Folk Frolics 

* Mimi Oz ~ Your Eyes ~ Three Of Swords ~ @ The Tranzac for The Secret Songs Of Sam Larkin Monday 16 February

* Rae Billing & The Unpayables ~ I Only Want It All ~ Walls & Fences @ Winterfolk XIII all weekend

Nicolette Larson (Lotta Nic Remix) ~ Lotta Love ~ What Is Hip?

Van Morrison ~ Come Here My Love ~ Veedon Fleece 

The Streets ~ Dry Your Eyes ~ A Grand Don't Come For Free

* Crabtree & Mills ~ I Love To Love ~ Flights Of Fancy @ The Free Times Cafe tonight

*Anne Lindsay ~ Valentine ~ Hurry On Home

Tal Farlow and Lenny Breau ~ My Funny Valentine ~ Chance Meeting (Live At The Sign Of The Times, 1980)

with Toronto music listings fondly displayed.

 Get out and love some music and whomever else you should happen to run in to.

For mighty were the auxiliars which then stood Upon our side, us who were strong in love! 

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very Heaven! ~ Wordsworth

Folk Of Winters and Deserts

A steadily inspiring Canadian songstress over several decades,Linda McRea,  will perform and talk on the show at 5:30 about her current revitalization with the release of Borealis' compilation Fifty Shades Of Red.

She is in town to perform at Winterfolk XIII and to record a new record with west coast musical manipulatista, Steve Dawson.

Linda's official Winterfolk Schedule: 

Saturday >2:30-4:00 pm: The Black Swan with Lynn Miles and Rae Billing >  Songwriting Workshop

$15 Advance,$20 Door  (including, at 1:00 "The Story Behind The song")

DORA KEOGH, 141 Danforth Ave, Toronto 10:00 Closing for HOTCHA!’s
Americana Pie

Sunday > They Put the Folk in Winterfolk

Doors open at 6:00  The Black Swan $15 Advance, $20 Door

7:00 – David Essig

8:00 – Linda McRae

 9:00 – Ken Whiteley

10:00 – Lynn Miles

And at 6:00, Sina Salimi will be rising into the Orbit to play the santur and radiate a little love as his show for Link Music Lab’s ‘International Link Series’ approaches.

WHERE ? Revival Bar, 783 College Street WHEN? Saturday, February 14 – 8:00pm

HOW?  $25 adv. / $30 door @ http://www.linkmusiclab.com/file/Sina_Salimi_Briga.html and at Pegah Book Store  

Playlist For Show Of 6 February

Commissioner of Selection: Paul Corby

( brought to you by Zambezi Zambonis, Congo Toboggans and Africanada  )

Guests : Jane Lewis and Brian Gladstone

5-7 p.m. online http://www.radioregent.com/ and at tunein.com .  
Canadians in Asterisk’d RED.

Videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/CorbysOrbit?feature=mhee

5:00  The Bright Continent

(February is African Heritage Month)

Tony Allen ~ Woman To Man ~ Homecoming (2002)

Beautiful Nubia & The Roots Renaissance Band ~ Monkey Wear Shoe ~ Sun No 'Bey Sleep (2011)

* King Achilla Orru ~ The Hero's Praises ~ Songs From The Heart Of Africa

Kinobe ~ Abataka (The Elders) ~ Soul Beat Africa

* Bet E. & Stef ~ Triste (Nicola Conte's Jazz Dub Radio Remix) ~ Remix Deluxe

Jimmy Smith ( Dec. 8 1925 - Feb. 8 2005 ) ~ Fungii Mama ~ Go For Whatcha Know (1986)

Illustration by GEORGE RODEZ

5:30 Post Mortem Pre-eminence

Bob Marley ~ Natural Mystic (alternate mix) / Running Away (alternate mix) 

Bob Marley ~ I Shot The Sheriff ( Roni Size Remix ) ~ Legend Remixed

King Tubby ~ Murderous Dub with a reading of the assassination passage from Marlon James' "A Brief History Of Seven Killings" 

Bob Marley  ~ Jah Live ~ Songs Of Freedom

Joan Baez ~ No Woman No Cry ~ No Woman No Cry

Joan Baez ~ Give Me Corn Bread ~ Another Day, Another Time : Celebrating The Music Of "Inside LLewyn Davis"

6:00 Gathering Jane

* Jane Lewis ~ Evening Come / Interview / Stay With Me / Carry You Home ~ Stay With Me

* Anne Lindsay feat. Amy Laing ~ Tour En L'Air ~ Soloworks CD release tonight @ Heliconian Hall

6:30 Folktastic

Olivia Chaney ~ Imperfections ~ @ The Dakota Tavern 6:30 p.m. Tuesday 10 February

* Trent Severn ~ Like A Donnelly ~ Trent Severn @ Acoustic Harvest Saturday St. Nicholas Anglican Church

1512 Kingston Rd., Toronto (one block east of Warden Ave.)
* Tony Quarrington ~ Fly Away To Waikiki ~ Mad About Uke @ Winterfolk XIII Feb.13-15 Danforth /Broadview

* Brian Gladstone ~ Interview Re.: http://www.winterfolk.com/

* Lynn Miles ~ Blue Blue Town ~ Black Flowers vol. 4 @ Winterfolk XIII Feb.13-15 Danforth /Broadview

* Mark McLean ~ Silent Prayer ~ Playground @ Jazz Bistro Friday & Saturday with a bouquet of Toronto music listing arranged appropriately within

* Corinna Rose ~ Lost Like You ~ Northeast / Southwest @ The Cameron House Back Room Wednesday, 11 February

First Friday In February Features Jane Lewis, Totally Live, and Bob Marley, Dreadfully Great

                                                                                                           Photo by Leonard Poole

Guelphian singer Jane Lewis has a new disk out,

and at 6:00, she will be providing us with Orbital access to her song-writing, teaching and up-coming performances: 

Valentine s Eve in Georgetown from  7-10 pm 

and with Gathering Sparks at 

Winter Folk Camp in 

Haliburton - Mar 6-9 -

http://www.macartstudios.com/winter_folk/jane-lewis.html

And

The Dread will be honoured, seventy years after his birth with music and natural mysticality.

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