The Flying Cloud at the TRANZAC presents “A Mariposa Festival Preview”
with David Bradstreet, Robert Priest, David Newland, Julian Fauth, and Muddy York
7 pm door, 7:30 start – $20/$18 members of TRANZAC or Flying Cloud
David Bradstreet
David Bradstreet is best known for his song ”Renaissance” (“Let’s Dance That Old Dance Once More”) – a hit for Canadian icon, Valdy.
He has been recognized for his work as a singer/songwriter, composer and producer, twenty-one albums bearing his name; a high profile Juno Award early in his career; three subsequent Juno nominations and music credits including a Gemini nomination; film and television soundtracks and scoring; talent discovery and record production for numerous artists including Jane Siberry, Colleen Peterson, Nancy Simmonds, Bill Hughes, Jason Fowler and Robert Priest.He has toured extensively and is a veteran of many coffeehouses, concert halls and folk festivals.
Robert Priest
Poet Robert Priest definitely puts the ‘verse in diversity’.
The author of fifteen books of poetry. His most recent book is: Reading the Bible Backwards. He won the Acorn People’s Poetry Award for his now classic Mad Hand (1988).
As a songwriter, he co-wrote the number one hit, Song Instead of a Kiss,for Alannah Myles. You may even have seen him recently singing topical songs on CBC Televison’s Sunday Night News. He teaches a lyric-writing course at U.of T.’s School of Continuing Education.
David Newland
David Newland is writer, musician and host with a passion for the Canadian experience.
Born in Ottawa, raised on the shores of Georgian Bay near Parry Sound, David is a veteran traveler and global citizen. He’s now based in Toronto, where he makes music by night and media by day.
David is the founding force behind The McFlies and co-founder & co-host of the Corktown Ukulele Jam community. He logs dozens of gigs yearly as a solo performer, ukulele player and workshop host in addition to his many other pursuits.
Julian Fauth
The Toronto based singer and pianist practically redefines eclectic. His second album “Ramblin’ Son” opens with a free interpretation of Tommy Johnson’s “Maggie Campbell and passes through Fats Waller, “Will the Circle Be Unbroken”, Guitar Slim and a rank of quirky originals like the “Man on the Box” and “Cubist Blues”, delivering them in a voice redolent of smoky dives.
Muddy York
(Anne Lederman and Ian Bell)
Originally from Manitoba, fiddler/singer/composer Anne Lederman is strongly rooted in several Canadian musical traditions, old and new – Metis and French-Canadian, Scots-Irish, Eastern European and African. She sings in several languages and also plays mandolin, tenor guitar, piano, bones, feet, jawharp and more.
Anne began her professional career as a fiddler in the late 1970s touring with Harry Hibbs, Newfoundland’s “favourite son”. In 1983, as half of duo Muddy York with Ian Bell, she released the ground-breaking recording Scatter The Ashes: Music of Old Ontario (just re-released on CD).
Always a part-time musician, Ian Bell has none-the-less performed professionally across Canada and in the United States for over a quarter century. On his own and with a number of ensembles he has appeared at numerous folk festivals (Winnipeg, Mariposa, Edmonton, Ottawa, Yellowknife, Owen Sound, Lunenberg , Montmagny, and others) and in concerts in every sort of venue.
