Month: August 2006

By Rachel Betts-Wilmott

Gauntlet: Folk musicians are traditionally struggling. I hear when you were really struggling, you had some very dubious employment. Dan Bern: Yeah, when I first moved to L.A. for eight hours a day I had to wear headphones and in each ear was a different all-news radio station. I had to write briefs for every… Continue reading Music Interview: A Dan Bern of all trades

By Kyle Francis

The first time I heard that music, it did something to me,” Marc Savoy recalls. “It really confused me. I was about five or six years old, and when I heard those instruments together–the accordion, the fiddle–it did something to my head. If I had experienced it as an older person, as a teenager, I… Continue reading Music Interview: Home-cooked Cajun music

By Emily Senger

Gauntlet: What is your favourite folk festival memory?Awna Teixeira: The workshop with the D. Rangers and That 1 Guy, it was amazing. Ana Egge: And Kris Kristofferson, he just broke my heart.Alli Russell: It was so inspiring. G: What is folk music and how do you fit into the genre?AE: Folk, to me, shouldn’t be… Continue reading Music Interview: Salty feminism

By Rachel Betts-Wilmott

There’s a certain romanticism to country music, though it may be hard to believe with acts like Shania Twain and Kenny Chesney making a farce of denim and cowboy hats. There was a time when playing country music meant something more than showing your midriff. Kris Kristofferson is living evidence of this classic era, when… Continue reading Music Interview: These Old Dusty Boots