You Look Marvelous!
This is pretty much a photoblog, mostly pictures I've taken.
You can find out more about me over at candaceshaw.ca; I'm a music festival Director, actor, writer, Social Media Consultant (yep, I get paid to Tweet for musicians; it feels like the future), community organizer, bon vivant, creative genius, and adventuress.
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At some point very early Sunday morning, the hotel decided it had humoured us enough, so they kicked us out of the hallways and told us to go to bed. But there was some kind service stairway that somebody had scoped out earlier, and we ended the night in a civilized fashion - over whiskey, with song.
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A hotel-room jam at the OCFF conference - and who’s that lovely lady on the fiddle? I believe it’s Peterborough’s own Melissa Payne, Peterborough Folk Festival Emerging Artist 2011!
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I managed to get some great photos from the Ontario Council of Folk Festivals conference this past weekend, and I’ll post them soon, but here’s one of my favourites: 7:00am Sunday, after a night of friends, music, and jamming, James playing the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey as the sun rises over Niagara Falls.
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A few years ago, in my second year as Director of the Peterborough Folk Festival, I booked Canadian Hip-Hop artist and all-round good guyShad K to play the festival’s main stage. In the months leading up to the festival, a lot of Folk music fans commented to me about it; none of them were impressed. ‘Rap at a Folk festival?!’ they’d say incredulously, ‘What are you thinking?’ …
