Vancouver Folk Music Festival
co-founder Gary Cristall brings People’s Music to CBC
Canwest News Service article, July 4, 2008. Read the article...
New series explores folk roots. Article in the Globe & Mail, July 5, 2008. Read the article...
David Grierson talks to Gary Cristall. "At the 2001 Folk Alliance conference in Vancouver, the late broadcaster
David Grierson and former folk festival programmer Gary Cristall gave an
inspired tour through the history of folk music in English Canada. They
wove some tales and played some great music from our folk history. CBC was
there for the event, and we bring the whole story to you."
Listen to Gary Cristall on Definitely Not the Opera
Broadcast on CBC RADIO ONE Saturday March 3, 2001
HELP MAKE HISTORY
Where did folk music in English Canada come from? Why does it sound the way it sounds? Who did what, when and why?
I’ve been trying to answer these questions for almost a decade. Over those years I’ve compiled hundreds of hours of interviews, thousands of pages of notes and photocopies. The answers are going into a book I’m writing. My research is now in the sixties and heading for the seventies. Help me!
I want your memories, the contents of your basements- ‘informal’ tapes you made at folk clubs or at your group’s rehearsals, festival programs, club flyers, newsletters, posters and most of all, the Hootenanny sweat shirt Eaton’s sold in 1964! - just about anything that sheds light on how folk music developed.
Check out my book outline. If you’ve got something I might be interested in, email, write or call now.
Gary Cristall
PO Box 21547
1850 Commercial Drive
Vancouver BC
V5N 4A0
The fruits of my research to date were unveiled in the summer of 2008 on CBC Radio – in a five part series called The People’s Music on Inside The Music.
