Podcasts by The Folk
An investigation into the true stories and history of folk music in Canada.
Further podcasts by Mike Tod
Podcast on the topic Musikgeschichte
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TF014 Bonus Episode: Songs from The Folk from 2020-01-23T06:22:52
If you’ve been listening all the way to the end of each episode, you’ll know that each story ends with a song. That song is performed by a contemporary artist, paying homage to an old-time tune....
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TF013 Prince Edward Island: The Man Who Makes the Songs from 2020-01-16T04:57:04
If you’re from Prince Edward Island, or you've ever heard a song sung on...
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TF011 Ontario: The Ballad of Edith Fowke from 2020-01-02T04:32:12
A folklorist or a folk song collector is a person who studies folk music...
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TF010 British Columbia: From the Backwoods from 2019-12-19T07:10:47
In the 1940s and ‘50s in the interior of British Columbia, a logger and ...
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TF009 Nunavut: The Raven Jokester from 2019-12-12T06:28:37
Charlie Panigoniak, much like the raven in Inuit stories, was a jokester...
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TF008 Saskatchewan: Music and Peace from 2019-12-05T06:53:29
It is said that Leo Tolstoy wrote his last great novel just to get enoug...
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TF007 New Brunswick: Maritime Bluegrass from 2019-11-28T07:07:11
Bluegrass music is the fast-paced style of folk that became...
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TF006 Québec: A Fiddle on Fire from 2019-11-21T05:57:43
There is an old story in Québec about a Catholic priest who...
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TF005 Manitoba: The Red River Valley on Trial from 2019-11-14T07:15:18
“The Red River Valley” is a country-folk earworm that’s bee...
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TF004 Newfoundland: The First Lady of the Accordion from 2019-11-07T07:14:42
If you mention the accordion in Newfoundland, the name Minnie White is likely to come up. Minnie White is synonymous with accordion music in the province. But she did not gain this reputation as...
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TF003 Alberta: A Tale of Two Families from 2019-10-31T06:47:08
This is the story of two families, from opposite sides of North America, with two totally different lives, who intertwined in some very interesting ways. The first is The Carter Family from Virg...
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TF002 Northwest Territories: The Changing Roads from 2019-10-24T06:03:27
Is folk music still folk music if you play it on an electric instrument? Well, is a road still a road if it goes from dirt to pave...
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TF001 Nova Scotia: A Rising Tide from 2019-10-17T06:26:23
Perhaps no other region has produced more fiddle players and fiddle recordings, per person and per square inch, than a tiny island on the northern most tip of Nova Scotia, called Cape Breton. Of...
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The Folk: Trailer from 2019-09-12T21:11:45
What if I told you I had a story to tell that no one has ever heard before? A folk story that I find fascinating. A story about music that happened many years ago. A story that happened in your ...
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