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Saturday August 27, 2005
Folk Plus airs Saturdays
from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm on WJFF,
at 90.5 fm in Jeffersonville, N.Y. and 94.5 in Monticello N.Y.
We are Hydro Powered Public Radio and
stream online at WWW.WJFFRADIO.ORG
Folk Plus s a SING OUT! magazine Radio
Partner (www.singout.org)
The following introductions for songs from Folk Music CDs were collected a week ago today at the Ottawa Folk Festival on the Ottawa River in Ottawa Ontario, Canada. Introductions came from festival managers, venue operators and the artists themselves.
View just the setlist
here.
All photos by John Webber, unless otherwise noted).
| Chopper McKinnon - http://www.nutshellmusic.com/chopper/
Co-host of the evening performances, and DJ from Canadian Spaces on CKCU
Radio Carleton 93.1 Carlteon University, Ottawa
"This is Chopper McKinnon at the Ottawa Folk Festival, and I'd like Ang to play, something, anything! from Love Sweet Love, by Lynn Miles" Lynn Miles: I'm Lynn Miles. You are listening to WJFF, an amazing radio station thats hydro powered. Lynn Miles - 1000 Lovers 335
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(photo from www.nutshellmusic.com/chopper/) |
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Karen Flanagan McCarthy - Main Stage co-host and member of the
CKCU Ottawa Folk Festival steering committee.
"Bonjour, WJFF, d'Ottawa, Ontario. Je m'appelle Karen Flanagan McCarthy. Je suis animatrice de la scène centrale du festival folk cette année. Un de mes groupes preférés qui joue ici cette année est Genticorum, un groupe fantastique de trois musiciens de Montréal qui joue une musique assez speciale, traditionnelle, ça vous donnerais un petit goût du Canada Français. Ici, Genticorum." |
| Alexandre De Grosbois-Garand: "Bonjour, C'est Alexandre De Grosbois-Garand
de Genticorum.You're listening to WJFF Radio Catskill. We are Genticorum
and you are listening to Les Cousinages. It's a song about a pretty wierd
first night of wedding, because the wife have an unexpected guest."
(Angela) "Ii's in French?" (Alexandre) "Oui, en francais" (Angela) "Well than after it I'd like you to explain what happened in case people didn't grab it" |
(Alexandre) "After, ok, well it might be too explicit, the explanation.
The song is not explicit, but the song might be too explicit for airplay"
Genticorum - Les Cousinages
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Linda Tillory and the Cultural Heritage Choir - Don't You Ever Let Nobody Drag Yo' Spirit Down 448 Say Yo' Business - Earth Beat (Music for Little People) |
Melanie DeMore:
"Hi this is Melanie Demore of the Cultural Heritage Choir here at the Ottawa folk music festival where we are having a great time, surrounded by great music and wonderful people. I'm gonna introduce one of our songs which you will be able to hear on this great radio station, which I happen to love. I'm gonna introduce a song, lets see, I have so many favorites. How about "Aint nobody Gonna Drag Your Spirit down" with the cultural heritage choir, Wilson Pickett and Eric Bibb? Here goes"
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| Erin Benjamin :
"Hi my name is Erin Benjamin. I'm standing here in the parking lot with Angela Page at the Ottawa folk festival enjoying Linda Tillery right now off in the background. I think you are gonna hear something shortly from a fantastic Canadian band based in Alberta, Edmonton to be specific, a band called 'Old Reliable' and this is something off Pulse of Light and Darkness. They're an excellent band, check 'em out at oldreliable.com Old Reliable - Straight to Her Beauty
(picture from NERFA 2002, Kutcher's, Monticello, NY) |
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Anis Mitchell: Ok, well I'm Anis Mitchell and I'm standing here in the food court of the Ottawa Folk Festival and Natalie MacMaster is on stage. Shes like several months pregnant, she's dancing away up there. I'm supposed to say something about my songs. This song that you are about to hear is called 'Before the eyes of storytelling girls', and |
I wrote this tune in Egypt, I was studying abroad in college
in Cairo, I was learning a lot about Egypt and that region. The early 60s
let 50s was a time of a lot of progressive movements, there was a feminist
movement and a lot of art and architecture and general positive feelings
in the Arab world and the women whose point of views this song is from
is an Egyptian women who grew up in this time of a lot of optomism and
hope and lived to see the unravelling of that spirit, so it's her story.
Its called "Before the Eyes of Storytelling Girls"
Anias Mitchell -
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Ruth Moody: "Hello WJFF listeners, this is Ruth Moody of the group the Wailin jenny's from Winnepeg, Manitoba Canada. I'm talking to Angela here and Ive been asked to introduce a song. I'll tell you a little bit about "One Voice." It's a peace song and I wrote it about specifically peope coming together and singing together because thats what we do. I was at a folk festival in Ontario called Blue Skies and I was really struck by what a wonderful energy is created when people come together and sing together. But in a larger sense it's about people coming together and celebrating each other in all their simularities and differences. |
I don't think its that hard, it we really want to , to make a more peaceful world to live in for everybody. So that's what 'One Voice' is about" Wailin' Jennys - One Voice
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(photo from http://thebills.ca/) Chris Frye: "Ok, Ready? Hi this is Chris Frye of the Canadian folk group called 'The Bills' and you are gonna hear a tune called 'Lay Down' off our new album Let Em Run. |
So here it is, sort of a dark exploration of Victoria's underbelly
on...whats the name of this programme? ...start me agian, I blew it,
" Chris Frye, take two Hi everybody, this is Chris Frye of the canadian folk root's project called 'The Bills' and you are gonna hear a tune off our album, the song is called 'Lay Down' and the albums called Let Em Run. I hope you enjoy the song 'Lay Down' here on Folk Plus with Angela Page on WJFF Community Radio, yeah!" The Bills - Lay Down
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| Trevor Strong:
"Hi I'm Trevor Strong of the Arrogant Worms and you're about to listent to the new anthem which we wrote to replace the old one cuz it wasn't very good. The new Anthym is 'We are the Beaver." Arrogant Worms - We Are the Beaver
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Mike Regenstrief of CKUT Montreal
"Hi WJFF listeners to Angela's great radio programme Folk Plus. I'm Mike Regenstrief, host of Folk Roots, Folk Branches on CKUT radio up in Montreal. The song that I've picked is actually not a song, it's a poem by Tom Russell about the late Dave Van Ronk who was a friend of mine. In this poem Tom talks about a night Dave's apartment, which I had the pleasure of experiencing many times, so I felt like I was there when I heard Tom Russell do his poem, 'Van Ronk." Tom Russell - Van Ronk
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| Natalie MacMaster: .
Hello there, it's Natalie Macmaster here at the Ottawa Folk Festival and I'd like to introduce the next peice you're going to hear. It's from my blueprints cd and its called "The Appropriate Dipsitck" and it's written by Phil Cunningham Natalie MacMaster - (Phil Cunningham) The Appropriate Dipstick
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(photo from www.calgarychristian.com) |
While Natalie was onstage, I was leaving the area, and there was
a huge cry from the first 20 rows of the audience who lept to thier feet.
Kalan Porter! AHHHH. He is the 18 year old who won Canadian Idol. It was
a surprise, he wasn't expected until that evening show.
Kalan Porter - Praeludium and Allegro
Kalan Porter - How Many Roads
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| Anne Lindsay:
"Hi my name is Anne Lindsay and I'm a fiddler violinist from Toronto, Ontario and I'm here at the Ottawa Folk Festival getting ready to go on stage for a workshop. I would like to hear a track from my debut cd Evesdropping played, and its track number 7, called 'Rita.' Its a little bit of a twisty waltzy tuen in odd meters but with a lovely melody that carries through the whole thing." |
Evesdropping - www.anne-lindsay.com/ |
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Jiig - Fallen angle Music |
Ian Robb:
This is Ian Robb. I'm at the ottawa folk festival. I'd like to introduce you to this song, which is a a Cyril Tawney song. Cyril died earlier this year and will be sorely missed. This is a song from his time in the royal navy called a 'Chicken on a Raft.' A Chicken on a Raft is a fried egg on toast. This song really appears to be about breakfast, but its really not. It's about unrequited love. Here's Chicken on a Raft |
| Dean Verger : His mother was Helen Verger for whom they give
an award yearly.
"I'm Dean Verger. I own Rasputins folk cafe, it's been running for 25 years here in Ottawa. We are at the Ottawa Folk Festival. In the background you can hear some of the music thats being played this weekend. I've been asked to introduce a song. Well, before I actually introduce the song I will tell you this is the only song I've ever seen turned into amural. At the old Ottawa Folklore center on the side wall of the building they hired a sign painter to come in and paint the sheet music of Ian Tamblyn's Woodsmoke and Oranges on the wall so that people driving upand down the street would see and be able to learn, hopefully over a period of months, the song. It's become a classic for all who love to canoe and camp out in the wilderness. |
It's that freshness of song that in the middle of winter on the coldest day I can hear that song and say, hey, I dont care how cold it is now, pretty soon I'm back on the lakes and the rivers, throwing my canoe down the blue water. Ian tamblyn's "Woodsmoke and Oranges" Ian Tamblyn - Woodsmoke and Oranges
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Angela interviewing Terry and Carly I got talking with Terry Eagan who hosted the American Woman stage at the festival which I hosted. we spoke about Beth Furguson, who died a few years ago now, but was an Ottawa native. He chose "It will be alright" and mentioned that he loved so many of Beth's songs, I asked her daughter Cary to chose one, as she was sitting with Terry Eagan. Beth Ferguson - It'll be Allright
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Carly: I like dance on the Earth, its one of my favoritie
ones. I love that one, Its so georgous. Its the first one I always put
on when Im listening to the album. I don't know if you'd be interested
in this for your show, but the reason that I most recently picked that
as my favorite is because I just came into possession of all of her books.
She was a huge Margaret Lawrence fan which is what spawned the writing
of that song. So I've started to read all her books and gained a new appreciation
for the song. Its become a new thing for me, enjoying it on another level."
Angela: "They just gave an award to a 16 year old in the name of your mom. What was that awesome quote (of her moms) about not being defined by your illness or disability?" Carly : "That's something she always said in interviews. She didn't want it to be about her sickness at all, just about herself. She was always angry when a headline would come out focusing on that part of her. Beth Ferguson - Dance on the Earth
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| Chris MacLean:
"Hello, I'm Chris MacLean and I play with a band called Galitcha and we play north Indian folk music with a smattering of jazz and north American folk and a little bit of influence from China and North Africa. There is a song on our album called Balum Di Chidthi. Its a song I had a hard time recording because I don't speak the language, I learn it phonetically. I spent three hours in the studio on one particular word. It was the sound chidthi and midthi which i sounded alike to me, it meant something entirley different. I could be saying that recieving this letter is as sweet ...and rather than saying sugar, I was saying as dirt. So you wouldn't want to say that. |
There are a lot of words in cunjabi and urdu like taht for an English
speaking person, but i rather like singing this song, Angela's kind enough
to play it."
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Alex Sinclair: "Billy Boy is from that Rideau Canal show about a boat that blows up. I like it cuz I think its a really nice song. Jeff Byrd is playing bass on this, he's now with the ccowboy junkies, but it has an absolutely geogeous part hat he plays. I cant' remember what james ...I think James (Gordon) plays penny whistle. I think the band did a really good job on this one. Its a tear jerking song about a kid who gets blown up." |
| Dave Clarke:
"I'm sitting here at the Ottawa folk festival with Angela page and she has graciously asked me to intorudce a tune of mine. This is a tune called Flow Like river and its an insturmental peice inspired by the river that flows by my hoetown of montreal. Ive lived ed there for 50 years and im about to move away, but it will always be my home town." Dave Clarke - Flows Like A River
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Penny Lang:
"Hi this is Penny Lang at the Ottawa folkfest. I'm going to introduce a song called "Carry on Children" that I recorded some years ago. I had been living in the country at the time and I came into the big city and witnessed a few things that struck some chords so the song carry on children was written." Penny Lang - Carry On Children
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| Chris Smither :
"This is called Train Home. I wrote this after I had a conversation with Peter Mulvey about whether there was any time between beign alive and being dead. Chris Smither - Train Home
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(photo from crescentandfrost.com) |
Dan Marcus:
"This is Dan Marcus from the band Cresecent and Frost. Right now we're in Ottawa and we played at the Folk Festival and it was a blast. Its a pleasure to meet Angela Page and we are exctied to be on the radio show. Im picking a song from our new cd, Open Doors called "The carpenter's boat" becaue I heard that WJFF is powered by water and I think thats a fitting song. Hope you enjoy it." Crescent and Frost - Carpenter's Boat
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| Ken Whitely:
"This is Ken Whitely and welcome to all you WJFF listeners. I'm going to suggest that Angela play a song called "Sing with Me" cuz one of the things I like to do best is sing with people and thats what the songs all about. I recorded this at a live series of gospel workshops, because one of my favorite things to do in life besides sing with people, more specifically, is to sing with them at folk festival gospel workshops. I don't get enough just doing it in the summer so I staged a series and decided that thats how I would make my next record, by recording the whole series. I had special guests that I got to pick to do the workshop with me and thats how we did this. |
Ken Whitely - Sing With Me
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| Sarah Lee Guthrie: Alright, I'm gonna intro a song I
wrote called Holdin' Back. Its a song I wrote for the record. I found myself
in a hotel room with a bunch of other kids of... AJ Croce was there, Sally
Taylor was there, Ozzy Osbourne's kid was there, Phil Everly's kid was
there.
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What I really noticied was that I was pretty well alone as far as being
an optomist about it. Everybody had all these horrible things to
say, like 'My dad told me never to get into the industry; and 'My dad said
that people are gonna hate you' and all these negative things were coming
out of these kids' mouth. All I could say was that I thought it was
great and my dad said taht everybody is gonna love me and I was so, I don't
know, wide-eyed but I actually realized that I would like to remain so
and that about being an optomist about it all is really encouraging. I
didn't want to really want to turn that down, so instead of doing that
I wrote this song called Holding back kind of to them as a little bit of
a helping hand maybe, or also, to myself sometimes when Im feeling down.
So, this is holding back.
Sarah Lee and Johnny Irion - Holdin' Back
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| Eliza Gilkyson: "Hi - this is Eliza Gilkyson and whoa, theres lots of people in this room. We're at the ottawa folk festival here and you're listening to WJFF and Folk Plus. We're gonna listen to a song of mine, this is called "Man of God". I wrote this right after W got elected and I was feeling like - helpless. I just wanted to write something that reflected some of my issues around being told who i can worship and who im not supposed to worship nd i just resented that in our country right now we are bing forced into kind of a fundamentalist point of view on religion. I resent that. Right now a lot of us are down there trying to hold the line. man of god is written, not to convert anyone to my wasy of thinking but more . |
to kind of inspire the troops to hold the line for the things they believe in and the freedoms we hold dear. This is man of God Eliza Gilkyson - Man of God
(Eliza greeting Lynn Miles at the festival.) |
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Cary Cooper -
"Hi I'm Cary Cooper and you are listening to Folk Plus on WJFF. This is a little song that I wrote about my baby and it's called "Im Really Good at Loving You" Cary Cooper & Tom Prasada-Rao (The Dreamsicles) I'm Really Good
at Loving You
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| Harmonie Trowbridge - "Hi there, my name is Harmonie Trowbridge and you're about to hear "No Photographs" off my debut cd Amoraphobe. I worte "No Photographs" as a way to acknowleding a shift in my life from unrequited love to requited love. "No Photographs" was written by a definately an unrequited love. In the song I'm discussing the fact that when its unrequited love you don't have documentation to prove you are indeed in love with this person, no photographs, love letters and things like that. This song is lamenting the lack of concrete proof of the love that I was experiencing in a very real way at the time. So this is "No Photographs" |
Amoraphobe - harmonytrowbridge.net |
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(photo from www.joegrass.com) |
Joe Grass:
"My name is Joe Grass and you are about to hear my song bones which is inspired by the cliffs in Cape Breton Joe Grass - Bones
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| Chris White: Artistic Director of the festival and a performer.
"Hi this is Chris White and I'm the artistic director of the Ottawa Folk Festival. Wow has it ever been a fantastic weekend, and it's not over yet. I thought I could introduce one of my own tunes. You know, Lynn Miles, who is a fabulous singer songwriter as the listeners will know, told me once that its really easy to perform funny songs. You just go for the punch line. Her songs are not funny. Far from it. I recently released a cd of non-funny songs. This particular one is probably one fo the saddest songs on the cd, called House for Sale |
Chris White - House for Sale
Inner Voice - http://www.acappellacanada.ca/cdwhite/ |
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The Essential Bob Dylan - Columbia |
Gene Swimmer:
"Hi I'm director of the Ottawa Folk Festival here in Canada. I'm originally from NYC and I spent lots of summers in the catskills working right in the area of your radio staiton. Of course in those days there wasn't fm radio or npr or anything like that the big deal then was being able to listen to top 40 radio and Cousin Brucie. I guess the thing that sticks in my mind about folk music was that it absolutely blew my mind when there was Bob Dylan by Cousin Bruicie Morrow in the top 10 on wabc "Like a Rolling Stone" |
| Cary Cooper: "Hi WJFF listeners, this is Cary Cooper and I'm
going to introduce a song called "Worthy" but before I do, I would
like to share a quote with you. It was written by Marianne Williamson and
is as quoted by Nelson mandela in his 1994 inagural address and this is
how it goes:
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually who are you not to be? You are a child of God.Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. You were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within you. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light |
shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates
others." So here is "Worthy".
Cary Cooper - Worthy
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We should no longer accept the counsel
of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals,
we should look around and see what other course is open to us."
Rachel Carson
Thanks to all
well wishers with my curret battle with neurotoxic
poisoning and chemical sensitivities and welcome
to new listeners on the web. (http://pagewebberink.com/~angie/)
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments
that take our breath away.
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