The fifth Montreal Folk Festival on the Canal announces its lineup
Photo of Peter Yarrow (left), Paul Stookey and Mary Travers in 1980 from Gazette files. Peter Yarrow helped bring folk music into the living rooms of mainstream America as part of Peter, Paul and Mary....
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Photo courtesy of the Montreal Folk Festival on the Canal Tim O’Brien has an encyclopedic grasp of roots music in all its manifestations. The multi-instrumentalist – he plays just about anything with...
View ArticleConcert review: Roger McGuinn at the Corona Virgin Mobile Theatre; June 12, 2013
Photos by Pierre Obendrauf/ The Gazette Seeing the avuncular, easygoing figure telling stories and playing some tunes you just might remember at the Corona Virgin Mobile Theatre Wednesday night, it was...
View ArticleMontreal Folk Festival on the Canal follows the current where it leads
It may not be the biggest. It may not be the most brash. But the Montreal Folk Festival on the Canal is, hands down, the most chill festival in town, taking place in one of the more chill parts of...
View ArticleMontreal Folk Festival on the Canal follows the current where it leads
Co-founder Matt Large is content to let the nine-year-old fest grow gradually. This year's edition runs from Wednesday, June 15 to Sunday, June 19.
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