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  1. What Is This Book About?
  2. Beginning in the Middle - Mariposa, 1961
  3. The Invention of Folk Music
  4. A Child Shall Lead Them
  5. Canadian Beginnings
  6. Gibbon and the Canadian Mosaic
  7. Red Is The Colour- The Other Mosaic –1900’s-30’s
  8. The Early Labour Song Tradition in Canada
  9. Red Front to Popular Front
  10. New Deal and No Deal
  11. Birth of a Nation
  12. Put Canada First!
  13. People’s Songs and People’s Music
  14. The Golden Age of Canadian Folk Song 1947- 1962- The Beginning
  15. The Emergence of a Repertoire
  16. The First Tour- The UJPO Folksingers
  17. Foreign Affairs
  18. World Music in the Golden Age
  19. Founding Folkies
  20. From Bonavista to the Vancouver Island
  21. Sam Gesser and Folkways Canada
  22. Country and Folk
  23. The “Revival”- Folk as Pop
  24. Mariposa Revisited- The End of the Beginning
  25. The Boom - Early Canadian Folk Professionals and the Marketplace
  26. The Songwriters
  27. East is East and West is West- Halifax, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver & Smaller Towns and Smaller Scenes
  28. Folk Rock
  29. The Real Boom- Folk in the 70’s
  30. The Festivals
  31. The Message in the Music- Political and Social Images in Songwriting and Folk Music in Canada in the 60’s and 70’s
  32. Bigger Than Ever- the 80’s
  33. New World, New Music
  34. The Little Folk- Children and Folk Music
  35. Looking Forward – Looking Backward- Folk Music at the End of the Century and the Beginning of the New Millennium
  36. What Does It Mean
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25. The Boom - Early Canadian Folk Professionals and the Marketplace

For a few years in the early 60’s folk music was seen by the music industry as a viable form of popular music. Artists such as Bonnie Dobson, The Halifax 3, Karen James, The Couriers, Ian and Sylvia, etc. were contenders. Most signed with major US labels that were building folk music stables. Some adapted to the demands of the industry, some resisted. Some went on to fame and money; some didn’t. The first coffee houses and folk clubs began in major cities; the outlines of an industrial infrastructure took shape.
Captioned photo ran in the Accent on Youth section of the Winnipeg Free Press on Saturday Oct 12, 1963 on page 30.
Eaton’s ad ran in the Winnipeg Free Press on Saturday Nov 30, 1963 on page 32.
National Music ad ran in the Regina Leader Post on Thursday Feb 24, 1966 on page 24.
Hudson’s Bay Company ad ran in the Calgary Herald on Friday July 9, 1965 on page 36.
Hootenanny Hoot movie ad ran in the Calgary Herald on Tuesday Dec 17, 1963 on page 15.
Nabob Coffee ad ran in the Regina Leader Post on Thursday Sept 15, 1966 on page 12.
Cover of Sing and String Magazine, Issue #3, Spring 1961.
Program for a CBC-TV special concert of folk music taped at the First Floor Club in Toronto on Oct 21, 1960.
An ad for the Canadian Guild of Folk Artists’ weekly Hootenanny, drawn by Ken Danby
Ad drawn by Ken Danby for the Gate of Cleve, a Toronto coffee house
Ad for the Bohemian Embassy, a Toronto coffee house (one of the first) and home to the Canadian Guild of Folk Artists’ weekly Hootenanny. As printed in the program for Hear Us Sing, a concert produced by the Canadian Guild of Folk Artists at Casa Loma on July 23, 1961.
Photo of The Folkmasters (Pete Wyborn, Kell Winzey, and Alan MacRae) performing at The Question Mark coffee house in Vancouver in 1960
Photo of Pete Wyborn performing at The Question Mark coffee house in Vancouver in 1960
Photo of the Chanteclairs (Beverlie Sammons, Klaas Van Graft, and Alan MacRae) in the back of a Studebaker for the cover of their album, Just For A Lark. The band also wrote and performed songs for Studebaker advertisements.
Handbill from the Canadian Guild of Folk Artists’ “Folk Songs in Concert” at the University of Toronto’s Hart House Theatre on May 22, 1961
Album cover for The Courriers, The Courriers Sing Hallelujah
Photo of Bonnie Dobson as it appeared on the cover of her self-titled album in 1972.
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