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6th Annual Princeton Traditional Music Festival Free Admission
Princeton, BC
16 - 18 August 2013
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2013 Festival Committee Back row: Derek Winter, Ole Juul, Stu James Middle Row: Mary Masiel, Pat Schmunk, Jon Bartlett Front Row: Johanna Nott, Rosemary Doughty, Rika Ruebsaat, Darnella Armitage (Photo: Pat Mullin)
FROM THE FESTIVAL COMMITTEE It’s our sixth year, and once again we welcome Princetonites, their friends and relations and our many visitors to this year’s Traditional Music Festival. We hope as always to present the best of traditional music from our region, province and country, and we are very happy to welcome all the musicians, singers and dancers who give their time, experience and talent so freely this weekend. We thank, too, the advertisers in this who make this Program Guide possible – please remember them when it’s time to purchase. We thank our Town and our District, the BC Government as well as our federal government for their financial support, which make and keep this festival free to all.
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Welcome from the Committee..................Page 3 The Festival and Princeton's Musical Heritage ..................................................................Page 4 A Note of Thanks......................................Page 5 Dignitary Welcomes..................................Page 7 Something Old Something New................Page 8 Performers.................................................Page 9 Music Workshops....................................Page 16 Performers...............................................Page 18 Kids Lore................................................Page 25 Camp Songs............................................Page 26 The Princeton Traditional Music Society ................................................................Page 27 Song Hunting in the Similkameen Valley ................................................................Page 28 Balkan brass Music.................................Page 30 A Toast from Angelique Wood................Page 31
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The Festival and Princeton’s Musical Heritage Princeton is a mining community in the interior plateau of BC, founded in the mid nineteenth century as a farming and ranching area.
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The opening of mines in the early part of the century and the subsequent emergence of the logging industry brought people to the town to work, and each new arrival brought with them a musical heritage. That musical heritage was first explored in the mid nineteen sixties by Phil Thomas, and is included in his collection now deposited in the Aural History Archives in Victoria. Two Princeton residents, Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat, have explored the archives in the Princeton Museum for evidences of that tradition in print.
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This tradition forms the foundation of the Princeton Traditional Music Society, which is organizing this Festival. Performers are chosen on the basis of their knowledge of heritage musical traditions of the Princeton area such as fiddle tunes and logging and mining songs. The Festival thus provides a forum in which the community as well as visitors can experience and become familiar with the rediscovered regional and local traditional music.
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Their work has resulted in the publication of a CD, “Now It’s Called Princeton”, the proceeds of the sale of which goes to maintain the Festival. They also published in the fall of 2011 their collection of verse, poetry and songs titled Dead Horse on the Tulameen: Settler verse from BC’s Similkameen Valley (Canadian Folk Workshop, Princeton). The book also contains historical essays on the development of the Princeton area and archival photographs.
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Princeton began to flourish as a town with the triple discoveries of gold, of coal, and of copper in the surrounding areas. It was also the junction of the Vancouver, Victoria and Eastern Railway and the Kettle Valley Railway. Ranching is still a strong contributor to the local economy. Logging is currently one of the town’s economic mainstays with the Weyerhaeuser mill providing many full-time jobs.
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This Festival could not be run without the generous assistance we have been offered by so many people our performers, volunteers, and billeters. A huge thank you to them all! Thank you to Lisa Carleton for the production of the Festival Guide. Funding for the Festival comes from donations from Festival attendees, as well as grants from the Town of Princeton, the Regional District of OkanaganSimilkameen, and the Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage Program of Canadian Heritage. In addition, we acknowledge the financial support of the Province of British Columbia.
COME AND DANCE! The Festival begins with the opening ceremony on Princeton’s town square at 6 p.m. on Friday August 16. Right afterwards there will be a participatory dance with a live band right on the street. Everyone is welcome and you don’t even need to brig a partner. Kick off the Festival and kick up your heels!
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Our History ~ Museums PRINCETON & DISTRICT MUSEUM & ARCHIVES Visit the Princeton Museum … discover their world class fossil and mineral collection ... view the numerous artifacts from the whole area … learn more about the history of Granite Creek, Coalmont, Blakeburn, Princeton, the Similkameen Valley, ...
The Similkameen valley was settled between 1860 and 1900, and runs “from mines to wines” – from the mining communities of Tulameen, Coalmont, and Princeton to the agricultural orchards and vineyards of Keremeos and Cawston. The valley has three fine Museums, in the towns of Princeton, Hedley and Keremeos. Here you’ll find photo and document collections, historical artifacts and a wealth of local knowledge about the foundation and settlements of the communities throughout the valley, and the coming of the railway that united the communities in 1909. Visit these museums and get to know your valley!
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It’s that time of year again when over a hundred talented traditional musicians get together with the citizens of the Princeton area to make three days of fine music, song and dance. To those of you who are here for the first time, I promise you a memorable experience. To those for whom this is becoming a regular high point of the year, I say “welcome back!” Our thanks as always go out to the citizens, who open their homes (and their hearts) to the musical throng; to the organizers in the Princeton Traditional Music Society, for bringing back to our attention the musical traditions of the region, and for all their devoted attention to detail which makes this a very special Festival; and to the performers themselves, who give their art so freely and share it so readily.
6th Annual Traditional Music Festival Once again, on behalf of our fine citizens, we extend a warm and hearty welcome to our 6th Annual Princeton Traditional Music Festival. Music being the truly "international language," it transcends all generations and cultures. Our Princeton hospitality is at its finest as we host three days of superb entertainment provided by a gifted group of outstanding musicians and vocalists. We are truly blessed to have our Traditional Music Festival Society led by Jon and Rika and supported by a host of very dedicated sponsors and volunteers. To these good people, we extend our heartfelt thanks and appreciation. Welcome; Enjoy — and see you again in 2014!
Brad Hope, Area H Director, Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen
Dear Festival Participants, I would like to personally welcome you to the sixth annual Princeton Traditional Music Festival. I have had the good fortune to participate in several festivals as a performer. f enjoyed myself thoroughly and believe you will too. This great event would not be possible without the dedication of Rika Ruebsaat, Jon Bartlett and other members of the Princeton Traditional Music Society. Thanks to them we have a world-class event right here in Princeton that showcases the traditional music of Canada and other countries and fosters an appreciation of many cultures through people's love of music. While you take in the Festival, leave some time to explore what else the museums, businesses, services and landscapes of Princeton and area have to offer. Have fun, and enjoy the music and your stay. Sincerely, Alex Atamenenko, MP for BC Southern Interior www.princetontraditional.org
Frank Armitage Mayor - Town of Princeton
Welcome, visitors to Princeton! And a big thank-you to local residents who support this great community event in so many ways. The Princeton Traditional Music Festival is a wonderful showcase of diverse musical cultures. Founders Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat and their hard-working committee have put together a fantastic program that appeals to all. From the musical performances to the informative workshops, there's something for everyone to enjoy. If you're visiting Princeton for the first time, I also encourage you to explore the town and its beautiful surroundings. I wish everyone a great time! Jackie Tegart, MLA Fraser-Nicola
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Something Old, Something New This year’s Festival continues our interest in the music and dance cultures of eastern Europe, reflecting our area’s early settlement by miners from many parts of Eastern Europe, including Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia and Galicia. We welcome back Orkestar Slivovica, who have made such a fine impact on the town in previous years, and our MP, Alex Atamanenko, with songs in Russian and English. They will be joined by Oxygen Orkestar, an eastern European band from Nelson, and Hazem Matar, an exceptionally talented singer and oud player, from Saudi Arabia, and we hope to have with us Ikrom Sulaymonov, from Samarkand in Uzbekistan, a renowned player of the “quashar rubab”, a traditional five-string instrument. This year we have two new stages at the Festival, both of them indoors. The Princeton Library, adjacent to the town square will feature performances from 10 am until 1 p.m. on Saturday. These performances will be unmiked, and the setting a little more intimate than at one of the larger stages. There will also be an open stage from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Saturday at Golden Hills Grocery, 141 Bridge Street, one block from the Vermilion Stage. Another new addition to the weekend is the Saturday evening Honky Tonk Dance and Barbeque. This event is being organized by Jason Gasparetto, Rick Law and Rick Freeman who have kindly offered to donate all proceeds to the Festival. The event takes place from 7 to 11 p.m. on Saturday, August 17th at Riverside Community Centre, 148 Old Hedley Road (cross the brown bridge, turn right and it’s about 200 meters on your right). The dinner will be a barbeque including corn on the cob, followed by a dance featuring Country, Bluegrass and Texas Blues Music from local musicians and some special out of town guests.
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Dinner will be Bar-B-Que with Slaw and Corn on the Cob Featuring Country, Bluegrass and Texas Blues Music from local musicians and some special out of town guests!
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MARY ARMITAGE Mary Armitage is both a traditional folk singer and a songwriter and has performed in a variety of venues in the Lower Mainland, both solo and as half of “King’s Shilling” This year Mary pays tribute to the homelands of early immigrants with a selection of traditional and traditionally inspired original songs supporting the theme “Across the Atlantic”. Mary sings a capella and with guitar accompaniment. She encourages audience participation with humour and energy, so bring your best sing-along voices.
Aviva! is a Raks Sharqi dancer with a twist! Aviva’s love of bellydancing began with her first shimmy about five years ago. Since then she has become wholly immersed in the art form, involving herself in every class, workshop and performance opportunity available. With training from Vancouver dancers as well as from internationally renowned dancers, Aviva is well versed in the art of bellydance performance technique. She draws inspiration from both traditional and fusion styles of bellydancing as well as from her training in traditional and contemporary African Dance. Aviva takes her greatest joy in sharing her love of the art form with others. Visit her website at www.avivabellydance.com
ALEX ATAMANENKO & LAWRENCE HALISHEFF It is with great pleasure that we once again welcome Princeton’s Member of Parliament, Alex Atamanenko, to the Festival. Alex has been singing for many years both as a solo performer and with a group called the Balladeers. He performs regularly in seniors’ homes in the Castlegar area. Alex will be singing Canadian folk songs, songs of the 1960’s folk revival as well as songs in Russian, a language he learned at home. Alex is joined in his performance by Lawrence Halisheff.
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Laura Bassett is a New Hampshire native who grew up with folk music and the sea chanteys of the Mystic Sea Music Festival. After discovering the active folk singing community in Boston, she has since moved to Seattle, where her ballad voice can be heard at pub and chantey sings. She has a love for collecting songs that tell good stories. Laura will be participating in the Traditional Ballads workshop. CAITLIN MARIE BELL Caitlin Marie Bell is a New York City-based folk singer from Snellville, Georgia, whose music and storytelling are primarily centred around the roots of the American folk tradition. Classically trained and inspired by the blues, Appalachian, country and classical styles on which she was raised, Caitlin writes songs and arrangements that strive to keep the American folk tradition alive. Caitlin has CDs for sale at the Festival and you can visit her website at www.reverbnation.com/caitlinmariebell BLACKTHORN Blackthorn is a Vancouver-based folk group whose repertoire celebrates the traditional music of Scotland and Ireland as well as the folk music of English and French Canada. From lively jigs and reels to heart-wrenching airs and ballads, savour the melodies and intricately woven harmonies that bring this music to life in a new way, mixed with humour and, above all, fun. Blackthorn has CDs for sale at the Festival. Visit their website at www.blackthornband.com www.princetontraditional.org
Princeton Traditional Music Festival 2013 CLAIRE BOUCHER & BRAD HURLEY Claire Boucher is a native of Sarzeau on the Rhuys peninsula in southern Brittany. Her involvement in Breton traditions started with dance, followed by traditional singing. She sings songs and teaches dances from her part of the country. She is accompanied on voice and flute by her partner Brad Hurley, who has played traditional Irish and Breton music for thirty years. Visit their website at www.coureursdeminuit.com LES CANADIENS ERRANTS Les Canadiens Errants consists of Jasmine Fiona and Chantal Lemire, two Langley Fine Arts School alumni who have reunited to make music together. The duo focuses on traditional Canadian songs, sung with inspiring harmonies, accompanied by ukelele and violin. Jasmine is a ballad singer and an ardent lover of folk music of many traditions. Chantal is a violinist and music theorist. From the coasts of BC to Nova Scotia, Les Canadiens Errants will take you on a trip across Canada in song, stopping in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Quebec, and Newfoundland. CLADDACH Claddach sings traditional and contemporary songs that illuminate social and/or political aspects of the human condition. Sometimes they choose a song just because they like it and it’s fun to sing with others. They also play Celtic tunes for dancing, hoping to encourage people to get up and dance. Claddach has CDs for sale at the festival.
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DARK WILLOW Dark Willow pairs the sound of the Irish whistle, with the strong voice of traditional and contemporary songs. David Donaldson is a wonderful composer of traditional-sounding whistle tunes and beautiful waltzes. Ellen van der Hoeven has brought her lovely voice to the Festival several times and accompanies songs and tunes with guitar and mandolin. Together David and Ellen play Scottish, Irish and English songs tunes as well as some original compositions. This year they will be joined by Tom Rawson, of Seattle, who adds his open back banjo, mountain dulcimer, and vast repertoire of crowd pleasing sing along songs to the mix. ERRATICA Erratica is an allpurpose, ever-ready kitchen party band. They perform songs and tunes from a variety of folk traditions in a variety of ways and on a variety of instruments. This year regular band members Don Davidson, Jane Slemon and Cameron Stewart welcome Michael Burnyeat as guest fiddler. Erratica has CDs for sale at the festival. Visit their website at www.erratica.ca
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Princeton Traditional Music Festival 2013 ET TU FLUTE Et tu Fluté consists of Irish flute players Brad Hurley and Becky Deryckx. Brad began playing traditional Irish music in the 1970s and has played for dances, concerts and festival workshops all around the east coast. He appears as a guest musician on five CDs and is currently working on a duo CD with Roscommon fiddler Ellis Crean. He has also developed a popular website on the Irish flute at www.firescribble.net/flute. Becky is a more recent addition to the Irish musical tradition. She plays primarily in pub sessions in the Pacific Northwest but travels regularly to the east coast and to Ireland to expand her understanding of the music. Brad was one of her early mentors and they have remained close friends ever since. JOHN GOTHARD John Gothard is a long time traditional singer and musician. During his performances with voice, guitar and English concertina, you might hear anything from sea songs and traditional ballads to songs of Irish immigration to North America. ROSALEEN GREGORY Rosaleen Gregory was born in England with Irish, Welsh and Scottish ancestry. She first discovered traditional ballads as literature and then discovered that they had tunes. She has been singing traditional songs and ballads for over fifty years and now has a repertoire of over three hundred songs. She has participated in many ballad workshops in Britain and Canada. She is a regular contributor to Canadian Folk Music, the magazine of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music, and has recently produced CDs of ballads, which are for sale at the Festival. Rosaleen will be joined onstage by David Gregory. Visit her website at www.rosaleengregory.ca
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TIM HALL Tim Hall is a singer of songs from varied traditions – from old-time to maritime to ragtime. He is an accomplished instrumentalist on guitar, banjo and concertina and a collector of wonderfully clever and fun songs. HARD ROW Hard Row consists of Kim and Kaila Sinclair, a father and daughter duo who have been performing together for almost twenty years. With their melodic sound, they sing traditional ballads of love, loss and lament. Kaila’s soaring voice and Kim’s unique guitar styling weave around and through the music they love. With reflection and a sense of humour Hard Row connects their music with the relevance of history and the world today.
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Princeton Traditional Music Festival 2013 STEW & BETTY HENDRICKSON Music has always been part of Betty’s Hendrickson’s life. Thirteen years ago her husband bought her her first hammered dulcimer, an instrument that she always enjoyed listening to. A few years later she surprised herself by performing at an open mike, and has performed solo and with other musicians ever since. Stewart Hendrickson plays fiddle and guitar, and sings traditional songs from the British Isles and America. He studied voice while majoring in Chemistry. He taught Chemistry for 28 years and then was a research professor before retiring to become a full-time folk musician. He studied classical violin as a kid, but gave it up in high school for guitar and singing. After moving to Washington he picked up the violin again to become a fiddler. The Hendricksons have CDs for sale at the Festival. Visit their websites at www.stewarthendrickson.com/bettyhendrickson.html IN THE FAMILY WAY In the Family Way is a trio consisting of Rob Corbett along with his son Chris and daughter Emily. The group has performed for many years at family functions and selected venues in the Okanagan and beyond. Their trademark sound features tight harmonies on a variety of traditional songs accompanied by guitar, mandolin, ukulele and harmonica. IRISH WAKERS The Irish Wakers met at traditional Irish jam sessions at the Wolf and Hound pub in Kitsilano. They play jigs, reels hornpipes waltzes and polkas as well as singing sea shanties and other traditional songs. They perform at pubs, fundraisers and festivals. Visit their website at www.Irishwakers.com
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WORKSHOPS KIDS’ LORE AND CAMP SONGS Saturday 1 – 2 pm, Museum Stage This is a participatory workshop designed to tap into your childhood memories. It focuses on informal games such as “Red Rover”, or rhymes such as “Eeny Meeny Miney Mo” that you learned as a child. It also focuses on summer camp songs such as “Fire’s TRADITIONAL BALLADS from the Child Burning” or “It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More”. Host Collection Rika Ruebsaat will get the ball rolling by sharing a Saturday 11:30 - 1 pm, Vermilion Stage few of her own memories in hopes that she’ll trigger Ballads are songs that tell stories. Traditional ballads yours. She will then call upon audience members are ones that have been passed down over hundreds to share the songs, rhymes and games of their own of years telling stories of love, murder and passion. childhoods. You don’t need to be a singer or even Today’s balladeers are Rosaleen Gregory, Hard Row, remember all the words. This is not a performance Chris Roe, and Emily & Lyn Van Lidth de Jeude. but a conversation between the past and the present. The Festival presents concerts by individual performing groups and also workshops. A workshop focuses on a particular topic and is presented by a panel of singers and musicians who are on the stage at the same time. A host will introduce the panel and guide the workshops.
THE BLUES Saturday 12 - 1 pm, Museum Stage Emerging from the field calls and chants of slavery days, the Blues became a popular commercial music among blacks in the 1920’s and 30’s until it eventually spilled over to embrace us all. Sharing this music today are Jason Gasparetto, Barry Hall, Orville Murphy and Henk Piket.
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SHANTY SESSION Saturday 2 – 3 pm, Gazebo next to Vermilion Stage In the days of the tall ships sailors used to sing songs called “shanties” while they worked. Shanties provided the rhythm that went with a particular job as well as giving sailors extra “oomph” to raise a sail or haul up the anchor. They’re great fun to sing along with, so join the throng under the gazebo! John Gothard, North by West, Shanghaied on the Willamette, Phillip Tidd, Brian Robertson and many more.
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WORKSHOPS SONGS AND TUNES OF LA FRANCOPHONIE Sunday 10 –11 am, Museum Stage France is the motherland of “La Francophonie” and Quebec, Acadia, Louisiana, and many other places are its children. Sharing this music today are Jeanette Angel, Claire Boucher and Lyn Pinkerton. FIVE BANJOS Sunday 10:30 - 12 pm,Vermilion Stage There are many jokes about banjos, but when played well they are a joy to the ear. This session features five banjo virtuosos who will delight you with their frailing and fingerpicking. Barry Hall, Tim Hall, Stuart James, Dave Marshall and Jerry Middaugh. IRISH JAM Sunday 1 – 2 pm, Vermilion Stage Put a bunch of passionate Celtic fiddlers, guitar players, flautists, pipers, and the like on stage together and see what happens! Blackthorn, Claddach, Et Tu Fluté, Stewart Hendrickson, Irish Wakers, Stuart James, Port na Gael, the Psycho Acoustic Ceili Band, Chris Roe and Triskele.
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FIVE FIDDLES Sunday 3 – 4 pm, Museum Stage The fiddle is the powerhouse of the band and the centrepiece of the session. Today’s fiddlers are Gerry Bradley of Port na Gael, Annie Brown of PsychoAcoustic Ceili Band, Mary Brunner of The Irish Wakers, Michael Burnyeat and Rosie Carver of Blackthorn.
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Stuart James is from Princeton and had this to say about his music: “I have been privileged over the years to be part of a grand conversation, of which this festival is an instance, between friends with whom I share a love of traditional music and song. In my case it is the music and song of the British Isles, and of its North American variants, both unaccompanied and with banjo. I think of this music as an act of communion, in the best and original sense of the term; that is to say, as a distillation and embodiment of the collective human experience. I hope to convey to our listeners some of the force of this tradition; of the hold it has on us; and of the pleasure it affords us. If so, I will be inordinately (and no doubt insufficiently) pleased.”
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Princeton’s own Kettle Valley Switchmen consists of Jason Gasparetto and Rick Freeman on guitar, and Rick Law on bass. Together they will take us on a walk down south where the blues came from. Jason hails originally from Ontario and has performed in blues, country and rock groups in the US and Canada. Some of his inspirations have been Big Joe Turner, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Lightning Hopkins, Robert Johnson and Eric Clapton. Rick Law discovered traditional music at the Mariposa Folk Festival in Toronto and Rick Freeman has enchanted Princeton with his singing and fine blues guitar when playing with the Backdoor Blues Band. LEMON GIN Lemon Gin consists of Lyn Pinkerton and Jim Edmondson who have a flair for singing exquisite harmony renditions of songs of adversity and struggle without taking themselves too seriously. They have been making music together for thirteen years. Lyn pays dulcimer and banjo and Jim plays guitar. They choose their songs carefully from a repertoire of traditional Appalachian and British songs, sea shanties and other songs of work. Jim has CDs for sale from his previous group – Three Strong Winds. www.princetontraditional.org
Princeton Traditional Music Festival 2013 HAZEM MATAR Hazem Matar is originally from Saudi Arabia and plays the oud, a lutelike instrument strung similarly to a twelvestring guitar. The oud dates back to ancient times and is played throughout central Asia and North Africa. Hazem has played the oud, for over 20 years. He studied Arabic classical music for oud and vocals with one of Saudi Arabia’s great masters, Ghazi Ali. Well-known for his technique and musical spirit in his home city of Jeddah, Hazem brings the Arab world’s rich musical tradition to Princeton. Hazem plays with a Middle Eastern jazzrock fusion quartet called Tarab, whose CDs are for sale at the Festival. Visit the group’s website at www.tarab.ca MICHAEL & DON Michael and Don are Michael Burnyeat on fiddle and Don Davidson on mandolin. In 2010 twelve-year-old fiddle student Michael was asked to sit in on the Celtic jams at the Jericho Folk Club in Vancouver. Two years later he became the lead fiddler at those sessions. When asked to perform elsewhere, Michael asked Don Davidson to join him on mandolin. Michael and Don continue to play at the Jericho jams. As a duo they have performed at farmers’ markets, at UBC’s Apple Festival and at the Tipper Restaurant supper series.
MURPHY AND MIDDAUGH Orville Murphy and Jerry Middaugh play old-time and traditional songs about the “good old days” of the civil war, prohibition, the Depression and World War II.
Orville is originally from Kentucky where he learned to tell stories from Uncle Jim. He learned to play Gospel, hymns and blues on the harmonica from his grandmother and his aunt. Jerry Middaugh is originally from Ohio and has deep roots in Appalachian music. He sings and plays guitar, banjo and mandolin. Murphy and Middaugh have CDs for sale at the Festival. Visit their website at www.MurphyandMiddaugh.com
JANET MICHAEL Janet Michael is a Newfoundland-British Columbian. Although she has spent a great deal of her life in the theatre, music has always been a huge part of her life’s purpose. She is overjoyed to have this opportunity to share her unique musical heritage and some of the songs she has made inspired by that heritage.
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North by West consists of Jon Bartlett, Rika Ruebsaat, Simon Trevelyan and Henk Piket. The group has been singing together for many years and is well-regarded in the maritime music community. They have sung at festivals on both coasts. They are all Honorary Life Members of the Vancouver Folk Song Society and are among the founding members of the VFSS ShantyCrew. North by West has CDs for sale at the Festival. Sing along with them! ORKESTAR SLIVOVOCA Orkestar Slivovica is Vancouver’s home-grown Balkan Brass band, playing wedding and festive music from Serbia, Macedonia, and other distant and mysterious lands, where it is known as Trubachi and no such occasion is complete without it. The 8-12 piece brass ensemble plays and sings a diverse repertoire, from insanely fast dance tunes to heart-wrenching songs, often in crooked rhythms and exotic scales. Orkestar Slivovica has CDs for sale at the Festival. Visit their website at orkestarslivovica.org OXYGEN ORKESTAR Oxygen Orkestar from Nelson plays its own, sometimes comic, version of Balkan brass music, a genre that originated in 19th century Serbia when military bands began playing local folk music. The group is an assorted mix of mustachioed snappy dressers who play trumpet, soprano sax, trombone, tuba and snare drum. Sometimes they wander offstage and get lost in the crowd, but just follow the upbeat music and dancing girls and you will find them. Oxygen Orkestar will have you dancing in the street.
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Princeton Traditional Music Festival 2013 PORT NA GAEL Port na Gael means “tune of the Gael”, and that’s exactly what this four-piece group plays – mostly Irish most of the time. From four-part harmonies to spirited reels, the group’s focus is on traditional music with vitality, sometimes updated with original arrangements, but always true to its roots. The occasional foray into Canadian, Scottish and English songs provides a folk influence to the lively mix. Port na Gael has CDs for sale at the Festival. Visit their website at www.facebook.com/portnagael PSYCHO ACOUSTIC CEILI BAND
THE RABBLEBERRIES The Rabbleberries came together for Victoria’s 2005 Tall Ships Festival. They liked each other’s company so much that they thought up a band name and kept singing together. Sharon Hazelwood is a long time singing activist. She and Karen Gillmore are also members of the vocal quartet Virgo Rising. Alan O’Dean teaches autoharp, plays guitar in open tuning, and writes songs as though he were somebody famous. They will be joined by Ron Gillmore in his first appearance at the Festival. The Rabbleberries has CDs for sale at the Festival. Visit their website at www.rabbleberries.ca
The Friday evening ceili is a friendly dance that can be enjoyed by all. Dance to toe-tapping traditional Irish music played by Annie Brown on fiddle, John Gothard on concertina and Dave Marshall on guitar. The fun-loving Keri-Ann Thor will teach all the dances, making them accessible to all. No experience is required and you will feel like an expert ceili dancer by the end of the evening.
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Jeannette Angel is a performance artist and scholar currently living with her family in Kelowna. She comes from a French background and grew up in Manitoba where she attended the Festival du Voyageur for years. Jeannette considers singing as part of a way of life, a form of communication and a natural way to share with family and friends. Jeanette sings a capella and will be sharing her rich repertoire of French-Canadian songs. Jeannette will also be joined by her mother Barbara Angel and daughter, Eva Rae Angel-Fox. Together they call themselves Les Racines, which means roots, and we welcome them to their first appearance at the Festival.
Brian Robertson is perhaps best known for his finely crafted songs about the west coast based on a lifetime of living and working there. His work life has been varied – commercial fisherman, cabbie, engineer, economist and historian – and from that springs the variety and depth of his subject matter. He is a purveyor of some fine songs about work, love, travel, local history and the blues as well as being a singer of rousing shanties. When he’s not singing solo, Brian is a passionate Celtic musician, performing with the Irish Wakers and as a frequent guest with The Jocelyn Band. Brian has CDs for sale at the Festival
CHRIS ROE Chris Roe has been a lover of traditional music since she first heard the Chad Mitchell Trio in 1963. She has been a Morris dancer, a student of early music, a harp player and an active member of the maritime music community in the Puget Sound area. Her main passion is a capella singing. She welcomes audience participation. Chris has CDs for sale at the Festival.
SARA JANE SCOUTEN Sarah Jane Scouten is based in Montreal but comes originally from Bowen Island. She composes modern folk and country songs that draw on Bluegrass, old-time and folk traditions. Sarah tours all over Canada with her music. This will be her third time at the Festival where she will be singing traditional songs picked up on her travels. Sarah has CDs for sale at the Festival. Visit her website at www.sarahjanescouten.com
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HELEN SHILLADAY Helen Shilladay began singing quite by accident in pub sessions in Derbyshire several years ago. She quickly got hooked on the companionship, the traditional songs and, of course, the beer. She soon became a regular on the vibrant Derbyshire folk scene. Singing solo and with her duo, “Fair Game”, she has supported Anthony John Clarke, Bob Fox and her friend and mentor Lester Simpson. She also sang at festivals. Her choice of songs generally falls under the themes of sex or death (sometimes both), which gives her a large repertoire to choose from.
SKWEEZA Skweeza has been performing together for six years. The group brings a love of traditional European music and song. You are likely to hear anything from Ladino ballads of the Sephardic tradition to Roma songs in SerboCroatian and perhaps a tune or two from the rural villages of England and France. Skweeza consists of Andrea Georgiev on guitar and vocals, Judith Heather on accordion and vocals and Rich Williams on melodeon, guitar and vocals. SOFT FOCUS Soft Focus consists of Marian Buechert and Steve Britten who have been performing together for thirteen years. Marian has been singing traditional songs for almost thirty years. The duo has performed at the Northwest Folklife Festival, the BC Renaissance Fair, on radio and at many venues in the Lower Mainland. They look forward to the Princeton Traditional Music Festival. Soft Focus has CDs for sale at the Festival. Visit their website at www3.telus.net/softfocus
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Sound & Fury Morris has been dancing around Seattle and the Pacific Northwest since the waning days of the last century. Morris dance traditions date back hundreds of years, their origins lost in the mists if time. Morris is a street performance tradition, typically seen outside local pubs. When the dancing is over the dancers retire to the pub to enjoy the finest ales and ciders on tap!
Triskele Celtic Duo features Myranda O’Byrne on vocals and lap-stringed dulcimer and Michael Price on mandolin and harmonica. Both of them play guitar, bodhran and spoons. Their performances include traditional Irish and Scottish ballads and airs, sea songs and lively reels and jigs. Triskele has performed on radio and at festivals and special events in the Okanagan and elsewhere. In the winter months they teach music to children in a small Mexican fishing village. Triskele has CDs for sale at the Festival. Visit their website at www.triskele.shawwebspace.ca
IKROM SULAYMONOV Ikrom Sulaymonov comes to us all the way from Samarkand in Uzbekistan. He sings and plays traditional Uzbek music on the Qashqar Rubab, a five-stringed lute-like instrument found throughout central Asia. Ikrom will perform two music works – Dilkhiroj and Bilakuzuk – that are traditional entertaining musics performed by the people of Uzbekistan over the centuries. Ikrom has CDs for sale at the Festival.
PHILLIP TIDD Phillip Tidd has been singing a capella traditional songs for more than fifty years. Raised in England in the 1950s and ‘60s, he was greatly influenced by the folk revival. A regular at the Vancouver Folk Song Society in the 1970s, he now lives in the Shuswap and sings at coffee houses. He recently spent time in England and was a regular at the Devizes Folk Club there. He is currently learning to play concertina. This year Phillip intends to focus his performance on songs with what are called “floating verses”, that is, verses that seem to float around such that they appear in several different songs.
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EMILY & LYN VAN LIDTH DE JEUDE Emily and Lyn Van Lidth de Jeude are a mother and daughter duo who have been members of the Vancouver Folk Song Society for a very long time, and they love to sing. They are especially fond of traditional songs. Although most of their repertoire is from the States, they enjoy traditional music from all over the world. Some of their songs are sung acapella and some are accompanied with acoustic instruments. WITHOUT A NET Without a Net consists of David Lowther (who sings and plays things you strum) and his wife Mary (who sings and plays things you blow into). Together they perform a mixture of traditional klezmer music -- traditional dance music from eastern European Jewish communities -- and original songs with a frequent political bias. Without a Net has CDs for sale at the Festival. Visit their website at www.withoutanet.ca
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KIDS’ LORE ~ Rika Ruebsaat When you were a kid playing tag or hide-and-goseek, how did you choose who would be “it”? Was it “one potato, two potato” or was it “eeny, meeny, miney moe”? Did you play clapping games such as “Stella, Stella Ola” or “Pretty Little Dutch Girl”? Were “Red Rover”, “Simon Says” or “Kick the Can” played in your neighbourhood? Did you ever play ball games such as “One, Two, Three a-Larry” or “Anti-I-overhead”? What ghost stories did you tell at sleepovers? All of these are examples of children’s oral culture or kids’ lore. Kids’ lore is made up of such things as skipping and clapping rhymes, songs, games and jokes generated by kids and shared entirely by kids. It is unmediated by adults and is not learned from written sources, but is passed on orally. After immigrating to Canada as a young child, it was through kids’ lore that I became Canadian.
Skipping rhymes were a vital part of girls’ oral culture. “Fudge, fudge, tell the judge” and “Spanish Dancers” were heard in schoolyards throughout the English-speaking world. “Don’t go to Eaton’s Anymore” was a quintessentially Canadian rhyme that likely had variations in other countries. Clapping and singing games such as “Rubber Dolly” and singing games such as “The Wind Blows High” were also played almost exclusively by girls, although boys very occasionally joined in. As pre-pubescent children we explored our sexuality with rhymes such as “Roll Me Over in the Clover”, which was also popular among soldiers and which I learned at the age of eleven. We tested the limits of obscenity and grossness with many rhymes and stories. Through ghost stories we dealt with night fears and mortality.
Put-downs are such as “inkpink you stink” suffused There is a difference our daily interactions as did between informal kids’ riddles, tongue-twisters (“the games and those games stump thought the skunk classified as sports, such as baseball or hockey. The stunk and the skunk thought the stump stunk”) and latter have codified rules that are enforced by a referee parodies such as “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells”. or an umpire and require specialized equipment that must be purchased. There’s also a numerical score at Kids’ lore is so ephemeral that when I asked my the end of the game to determine who won or lost. own children when they were teenagers what they Informal kids’ games such as hide-and-go-seek, on recalled from their own childhoods they had trouble the other hand, usually require no equipment or use remembering. We hope you can remember on whatever is to hand such as balls or tin cans. They Saturday at 1 pm on the Museum stage. Please join also have rules, but these are not codified and there me and share your memories. is no impartial arbiter to enforce them. There is also no score at the end of the game and often there are even no winners and losers. In order to choose who is going to be “it” in a game children use counting out rhymes such as “Eeny, Meeny, Miney Mo” or “One Potato, Two Potato”. www.princetontraditional.org
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CAMP SONGS ~ Rika Ruebsaat
There were also humorous biblical songs such as “The Darkies’ Sunday School” which included If you were a Girl Guide or a Boy Scout you likely what I call “cute racism”. Living in the racially went to summer camp, or perhaps your church had homogenous Kootenays of the 1950s I didn’t know a camp that you went to. What songs did you sing what a darkie was. My favourite verse of that around the campfire? Was it “Fire’s Burning” or “It song was the one where Shadrack, Meeshak and Ain’t Gonna Rain No More”? Summer camp songs Abednego are saved from Nebuchadnezzar’s fiery were typically sung around the evening campfire. furnace by wearing asbestos underwear. Cute racism They brought the community of campers together also appeared in such songs as “The Cannibal King” and allowed everyone to wind down after a day of and “Zulu Warrior” (which coincided with the Mau outdoor activities. The songs were taught orally by Mau uprising in Kenya). camp counselors who had probably learned them when they went to summer camp. I learned campfire Toying with naughtiness was a common theme in songs at Camp Galilee on Slocan Lake in the campfire songs. Words such as “hell” or “ass” were kootenays in the1950s. I have spoken with people my left out or replaced in a “nudge, nudge, wink, wink” age that went to camp in other parts of Canada and fashion with other words such as in this verse from they know the same songs I do. “It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More”: The most well-known campfire song must be “Fire’s Burning”; at Camp Galilee we also sang a beautiful round called “Rise Up, O Flame”. At church camps many of the songs were biblical, such as “We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder” and “Ezekiel Saw a Wheel”.
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Of all the fishes in the sea my favourite is the bass He climbs up on the seaweed And slides down on his hands and knees. The army generated a whole repertoire of songs, many of which were adopted by summer camps. “The Quartermaster’s Store” is a ubiquitous example. At camp Galilee we had a version of “I don’t Want No More of Army Life” called “I Don’t Want No More of Galilee”. Songs that punctuated the day such as “Why Are We Waiting”, “Announcements” and the one that begins “Mable, Mable, if you’re able, take your elbows off the table” also originated in the army. In fact, summer camps were modeled on army camps in many ways. Instead of barracks you have cabins or dormitories, instead of sergeants you have camp counselors in each cabin. The “commissioned officers” (camp administrators) are housed separately. Sleeping quarters are inspected daily. My children learned an entirely different repertoire of songs when they went to summer camp in the early 1990s. As my generation dies off, I suspect the only place we will find these songs is in old songbooks such as A Pocket Full Of Song. We hope you can remember of them on Saturday at 1 pm on the Museum stage. Please join me and share your memories.
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The Princeton Traditional Music Society The Princeton Traditional Music Society was founded in August 2007 to promote “traditional” music, music that has been passed on from one person to another. It might be a lullaby sung by a parent to a child, which the grown-up child then sings to his children. It might be a harmonica tune played in a logging camp, which another logger remembers and plays at other camps. It might be an ages-old ballad. It might be a rude song about a pain-in-the-neck foreman, made up and sung among a group of miners to let off steam. Phil Thomas, the noted folk song collector and author, collected such songs in Princeton in the early ‘sixties, and discovered such songs as “There’s a Mine in the West where the Tulameen Flows” and “The Banks of the Similkameen”. Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat, the founders of the Society, have spent the last eight years researching in the Princeton Archives’ holdings of local papers in a search for more such songs. The Society has already issued one CD, “Now It’s Called Princeton”: Songs & Poems of BC’s Upper Similkameen. Bartlett and Ruebsaat are the authors of Dead Horse on the Tulameen: Settler Verse from BC’s Similkameen Valley, a book which contains over a hundred of these verses and songs, together with historical essays and archival photographs. Each year the Society mounts the Princeton Traditional Music Festival, a free three-day event with stages on the streets of downtown Princeton. Over one hundred twenty performers are presented, all of whom give their songs and music for free: in return, town citizens accommodate them, and the weekend is one long party. The Festival is strongly supported both by the Town Council and by the Regional District, and draws further financial support from donations (the Society is a registered charity), from the BC Gaming Commission and from Heritage Canada. To join the Society, speak to someone at the Festival Office.
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Song Hunting in the Similkameen Valley
Our search for the older musical traditions of the Similkameen valley continues. These traditions lie buried, like a gold seam, under a vast deposit of commercial music. The topsoil, as it were, is modern “country” music, and immediately below lies what used to be called “Top 20” music – Elvis and the Everly Brothers, the Beatles and the like. Below lies a layer of radio music, from such singers as Jimmy Rogers, music emanating from powerful radio stations in Denver and Texas and heard at night all over the west. This music, often live, flooded western North America in the years following the 1920’s. Earlier still are the earliest phonograph records, and at the bottom, immediately above the homespun traditions, are sheet music, mostly originating in New York’s “Tin Pan Alley”. These layers, of course, are not clear-cut, but are identified by the predominant forms of transmission. Many people still today listen to early recordings of 20’s and 30’s singers, and many more are fans of Presley or the Beatles. By “homegrown traditions” we mean songs remembered and still sung (rather than only or just listened to), songs often transposed from their original form to reflect local events, places or people. The earliest collectors of this form of music were made in the late eighteenth century, when “literary gentlemen”, fascinated, in an era of growing nationalism, by earlier national traditions, searched old manuscripts and books for evidences. The Grimm brothers collected the fairy stories of Germany from people of their acquaintance, and from peasants in the farms and the forests. The collecting tradition still continues. In Canada, Helen Creighton collected much material in the Maritimes, as did Marius Barbeau in Quebec and Acadia, and Edith Fowke in Ontario. We owe what we know of BC’s musical heritage to a Vancouver teacher, Phil Thomas (1921-2007). He was an enthusiast of American jazz and folk music in the early fifties, and was intrigued by the songs Edith Fowke had collected and played on her CBC show “Folk Song Time”. He began in 1954 to form a collection of what he could find in BC. He spent many summers touring the province, meeting singers in out-of-the-way places and recording their songs. His collection of some 500 items is now lodged in the Aural History Archives of the BC Provincial Archives. Phil Thomas visited Keremeos in August 1961 and collected songs from Mrs. Corkel. He visited Princeton in October 1963 and collected songs from Bob and Peggy Baird, and Pinky Foster. In September 1964 he collected songs from Bill Frew in Coalmont, and in August 1970 he collected songs from Art Rider, Art Hewitt and Art Shenton in Princeton and from Herbert Clark in Keremeos. These twenty-two songs represent his findings in the Similkameen valley. Some of them are reproduced in his book, Songs of the Pacific Northwest (Surrey: Hancock House Publishers, 2nd revised ed., 2006), and some have been rerecorded by Thomas himself and by myself and Rika Ruebsaat. Rika Ruebsaat and I worked with Phil Thomas for over 30 years in the popularization and dissemination of BC’s heritage of song, and wanted to continue the work after his death. But many, if not most, of Phil’s informants were by that time dead, and younger singers didn’t have a BC repertoire. The wave of commercial music which arrived by radio from the late 1920’s had covered the traditional “seam” completely; his informants had learned their songs, as most of us do, before they were twenty years old, and thus before radio had encouraged their silence. Continued on page 29 28
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Song Hunting in the Similkameen Valley ...From page 28 We knew that Phil Thomas had found songs sometimes printed in local papers, and wanted to see if we could find any such in the local papers of our new hometown of Princeton. The local Museum fortunately had an entire back run if the local papers from 1900. In it, we were delighted to find a mass of locally created material, some of which we published in our Dead Horse on the Tulameen: Settler Verse from BC’s Similkameen Valley (Princeton: Canadian Folk Workshop, 2011). Trips to Selkirk College’s massive holdings of Kootenay papers proved that this was no flash in the pan; the sixty or so papers we inspected there from the 1890’s to the First World War revealed over 3,000 examples of verses and songs. In Princeton in 2012 we heard an intriguing rumour; that someone other than Phil Thomas had come through Princeton, in the mid 1960’s, and collected local singers. We could find no trace of this expedition through catalogs and the Internet. On a recent trip back east, I took the opportunity to visit the Museum of Civilization in Ottawa. I spent a few hours with some very helpful archivists, and was overjoyed to find, after much searching, the source of the rumour. I had found the Pickering Collection, made by Fern Pickering and Ken Peterson on two trips (September– November 1966 and June-July 1967). They had travelled throughout southern BC and had collected some 234 songs and tunes, in Kaslo, Lardeau, Nelson, Nakusp, and Slocan Park in the west Kootenays, in Williams Lake, and Australia in the Fraser watershed, in Princeton and Coalmont in the Similkameen, in Penticton and Enderby in the Okanagan, Campbell River and Sooke on Vancouver Island, and in Pender Harbour, Squamish and Vancouver on the coast. The singers and the songs that most interested me, of course, were those from the Similkameen. Art Shenton, visited in 1967, three years before Phil Thomas met him, contributed two songs. Pinky Foster sang three songs, Meyers Waugh sang two and his brother Robert one more, and Bill Frew of Coalmont contributed seven. Thomas Coyne, whom Phil never connected with, sang four more, including www.princetontraditional.org
a song titled “Westly Everst” (properly, “Wesley Everest”), a requiem for a local labour leader who was lynched 11 November 1919. The song appears in the Industrial Workers of the World’s “little red songbook” as “The Tragedy of Sunset Land” and attributed to Lorne Roberts (another unionist, imprisoned in the Walla Walla Penitentiary after the Centralia massacre), and set to the tune of “Silvery Colorado”. The Wobblies, as IWW members were popularly called, were often keen singers, and the songbook (more properly known as IWW Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent, which has gone through 38 editions since 1905) was to be found in the pockets of many politically conscious workers. Are there other songs still unfound in the valley? Almost certainly. Perhaps a document bearing songs will surface in one of our three museums; perhaps some old-timer made himself a little record of songs he knew and loved. Just as the old prospectors never gave up hope of a “showing” (and prospectors still today work the creeks in the area), so too do we live in hopes of further discoveries of that seam of traditional song lying beneath our feet.
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Balkan Brass Music: An Introduction This year we are indeed fortunate to have two Balkan brass bands appearing at the Festival – Orkestar Šlivovica, from Vancouver and Oxygen Orkestar from Nelson. For those not familiar with this type of music, Oliver Schneider, Orkestar Šlivovica’s bandleader, has kindly sent us the following background information. Balkan countries are famous for their elaborate wedding rituals, with specific live music being an integral part of every wedding. The genre referred to in the West as “Balkan Brass” is a deeply rooted tradition from Southern Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia, and to a lesser extent several neighbouring countries. Particularly throughout Serbia this music is regarded as a strong part of national identity, and is performed at many other occasions as well such as festivals, civic events, house-warmings, and any other important moment in people’s lives. The music tells stories of joy and happiness as well as deep sorrow and longing. Instrumentation includes harmonies of multiple trumpets; powerful driving rhythms of low and mid-brass; the eastern double-headed drum; and beautiful ornamentation of saxophone, occasionally clarinet and accordion and powerful vocals. It is most often performed by Roma (“Gypsy”) musicians although there are increasing numbers of non-Roma bands as well. Tunes vary from ballads that reveal the eastern influences of the Ottoman Empire, to folk, pop, or even jazz-inspired interpretation with full Balkan brass orchestration, depending on the needs of the occasion. The Guca festival in central Serbia draws hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world to listen to twenty competing bands vie for the titles of best trumpet and best orchestra, while dozens more perform on the street and in temporary restaurants for tips. Orkestar Šlivovica is a BC Balkan Brass band, and is currently studying under the, Serbia. Demiran and his son, Novica. They live in Southern Serbia at the hub of Roma (“Gypsy”) Balkan Brass movement, where they lead the Demiran 'erimovi' Orkestar. While Europe and USA are being swept up in the Balkan Brass band craze, Vancouver’s Orkestar Šlivovica is eager to introduce this beautiful musical tradition to British Columbians. Studying directly with Serbian Roma trumpet master Demiran 'erimovi', 3-time winner of the international trumpet festival at Guca, Orkestar Šlivovica attempts to be as authentic as possible while still remaining accessible to Canadian audiences. The band has been performing Balkan brass music for 5 years and has played over 150 shows including festivals, late-night dance parties, folk dance events, and many weddings. For more information, contact Oliver Schneider, bandleader and manager, at orkestars@gmail.com, 604-612-1050 or check the band website for more details and updates: orkestarslivovica.org 30
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A TOAST TO THE MUSICIANS and Volunteers of the 2013 PRINCETON TRADITIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL
ANGELIQUE WOOD
DIRECTOR, Regional District Okanagan-Similkameen, Electoral Area “G”
THANK YOU ALL FOR MAKING THIS FESTIVAL A SUCCESS The generosity shown by all the musicians who travel great distances and perform free of cost is a great gift which I hope you appreciate. Please consider purchasing the CD’s of the performers who you like; this is a tangible way of demonstrating your support and enthusiasm for this young festival, which I hope continues for many years to come. www.princetontraditional.org
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