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PerformersOver in Festival Command, we're hunkering down to begin the process of determining the stellar lineup of our Twentieth Anniversary season of he Peterborough Folk Festival. It's a competitive process, with more than 1000 submissions of terrific music from across Canada and around the world. The lineup announcement will happen in late spring, so keep your eyes and ears peeled for it! We've got some super-secret surprises in the worls!
Performer Applications Please read this entire page carefully. The Peterborough Folk Festival accepts applications for PFF 2008 beginning October 1, 2007. Applications should include: The info sheet should include: Anything more than a CD and 1 page bio will be recycled. Seriously. The Peterborough Folk Festival is commited to presenting original music, with a focus on diverse, high-quality performance. We encourage submissions of all types and genres of music (scroll down the page to see examples of past performers). The festival takes place August 21-23, 2008. Electronic applications are accepted exclusively through Sonic Bids. Please click on the logo: Once selected, performers will be required to provide a high resolution digital photo (300 dpi), 50 word electronic bio, 2 copies of their most recent CD release, tech rider and stage plot. All materials received by PFF and its agents remain the property of PFF. All packages are reviewed by the PFF's Artistic Director. While all submissions are respectfully reviewed, due to the volume of material received only those of interest will be contacted. Please be patient. _______ This is a short list of some of the terrific acts who graced the festival stage in 2007! Samba Squad www.sambasquad.com Samba Squad has risen from a community based drumming group into one of the most dynamic and sought after acts on the Canadian world and Latin music scenes. Samba Squad was awarded the UMAC (Urban Music Association of Canada) Award for Best World Recording of 2001 for their self-titled release. The colourful thirty-plus member drum group performs a variety of samba-based West African, Caribbean and Afro-Cuban styles of Carnival rhythms on traditional Brazilian percussion instruments and has become one of the most exhilarating live music experiences in Canada. Bhangra Nation www.bhangranation.com A thunder of footsteps accompanies the rhythmic bea ohbijou www.ohbijou.com Shad K www.shadk.com Twilight Hotel www.twilighthotel.ca Hailing from the fertile music scene of Winnipeg Manitoba, Old Man Luedecke www.oldmanluedecke.ca A banjo songster like Old Man Luedecke is a rare type of Drea and The Holy Lowdown Band Drea Nasager was born to sing. She picked up the guitar at 19 and never looked back. Audiences quickly realized her potential, not only as a singer but also as a songwriter and a natural performer. Her sound melds folk, rock, country and pop, each song an individual expression. Her music has taken her across Canada twice with extensive tours in the Yukon Territory, St. John's NL, and most recently to Northern Europe where her performances at summer festivals in 2006 and 2007 have created a large following. As a solo performer Drea blends catchy melody and powerful lyrics with rasp, grit, power and sweet falsettos. Her live performances as a solo artist and now with The Holy Lowdown Band engages new and old fans with humor and traveled intensity; you will wake up with Drea's songs in your head. She is earning a reputation as a fierce musician, business woman and performer. As the PFF's Emerging Artist 2006, she'smade us proud, and we're excited to have her back with us this year. James McKenty and The Spades www.thespades.ca Allison Brown and The Goin' Concern www.allisonbrown.ca Allison Brown's sweet and powerful singing expresses her The County Boys www.myspace.com/thecountyboys The County Boys, Chris, Benj and Dave have accomplished many feats in the year that they have been together. Their original and high energy music inspires nights of dancing, foot stompin' and drinking in the many venues of Southern Ontario. They just finished there first CD of 13 original songs, which include three part harmonies, guitar, banjo, and upright bass. The performance was captured live off the floor from the local pub the Rusty Snail and was a collective effort among the three musicians who shared both the song writing and singing. The County Boys now live together in the County of Peterborough and share a three story bunk bed. They rehearse all day and then play all night. When they get tired of working on songs they work on astral projection. This makes the County Boys appropriate for almost any venue or function.
Donald Fraser Donald writes songs for big people and small people, short people and
Bradleyboy A singer/songwriter living in the village of Orono, Bradleyboy has been playing for the past ten years in various alternative folk/country/blue grass bands (The Town Hall Criers,The Kent boys) and solo projects with friends from the Durham area and abroad. His collaborators are diverse, but they all share the same high energy, live off the floor way of recording musical conversations, capturing moments in The Red Room, a recording studio located in Bradleyboy’s home in Orono. |
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ohbijou plays music to swell your heart.
musician; a songwriter of such hopeful goodness, rarer still. In the tradition of solo banjo men and women of days gone by, Old Man Luedecke sings his songs accompanied only by his loving five string, foot stomps and the occasional yodel. His songs are melodic gems blending old-time sensibilities with an unusual vision and poetic sense. Old Man Luedecke left the big old city of Toronto, met a girl in the Yukon, fell in love, bought a banjo and fell in love again. After a couple of years of love and banjo and the makings of a brilliant performing career in sunny Halifax, he returned to the Yukon with his sweethearts. There he woodshedded. He wrote a tone of songs over the next year and a half. He held regular gigs playing banjo in a gambling hall with can-can girls and in a honky tonk called the Snakepit accompanying piano barnacle Bob. After a time, he left again for Halifax to renew musical acquaintances and record his debut CD Mole in the Ground. That CD has become a smash on college radio, was featured on CBC's Atlantic Airwaves and is a hot item in stores and at shows. He continues to live in Halifax and perform there and around the country to ever-wider acclaims. His stage show blends hokum and inspiration into powerful and fun entertainment that will delight young and old. He's still sweet on the girl he met up there in Yukon, and the banjo. 
enduring character with a striking honesty. Framing melodies with well crafted, subtle guitar accompaniment, her collection of roots classics matched with her own original repertoire links the present to the past and glimpses the future with a unique vision. Allison tours regularly through Ontario and has also performed in Manitoba, B.C, and Quebec. Currently singing and playing guitar with a rootsy bluegrass trio, London's "The Goin' Concern," they regularly raise a ruckus with bluegrass, country, old-tyme, gospel, folk and more at pubs, legions, concert halls, campfires, festivals, neighbourly watering holes and country fairs. Dedicated to sharing folk music with the community, she is also the host of "For The Folk" on London's CHRW Radio 94.9fm.
tall people. With characters such as Billy Idle and Dr Gerald Von Greenhaus, he has performed at countless provincial parks, schools, camps and festivals. As a former member of the Paddling Puppeteers and writer/producer for the Cool Captain Climate Show, Donald has garnered both awards and accolades. His newest character, Boxcar Billy, shares history lessons and songs from the 1920's and 30's. Accidentally educating while having fun, Donald delivers social and environmental learning through laughter and song.