Jeremiah McCaw's folkpage
Jeremiah McCaw's Welcome to my site. I live in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. The main purpose of this site is to give some shape to folk & folk-oriented activity in this area and (of course) to share my love of folk music. Obviously I'm going to do my best to promote the superb performers I've gotten to know over the years. I might even indulge in a wee bit of shameless self-promotion, but I'll try to keep it subtle, okay? (On the other hand, if you'd like to know something about the group I'm currently part of, simply click on Jericho)
I'm going to keep this homepage as simple as possible, 'cause slow-loading pages give me a great big pain in the Royal Canadian. I assume that's not an isolated feeling.
I want to specially mention and thank Jay Linden for having hosted this site on his webspace for so long. Jay is a fine songwriter and performer and I strongly recommend a visit to his own website to acquaint yourself with this excellent artist.
My e-mail address (new
as of Jan/08): 
jeremiah@jeremiah.ca
Carry on, mes amis!
So - here's what I've got to offer from here:
(Among many other things, the interim homepage of the new Brantford
Open Stage is here.)
The Folk Calendar - an overview of happenings in this area (southwest central Ontario). |
Club Listings As up to date as I can manage; this is a listing of all the folk clubs
of which I'm aware. Mostly (but not entirely) I'm ignoring Toronto itself,
not out of snobbism, but because the folk community there is very centralized
and therefore an almost independant entity. In conjunction with the
calendar, you should end up with a fair picture of what be happenin'
out there. |
Links - to performers I know, enjoy, respect & and just plain think
you should oughta know about; |
Grand River Folk Communityserving an area of Ontario including suchlike places as: Arkell Brantford
Cambridge
Elora Fergus Guelph Kitchener-Waterloo Paris St. Jacobs & many points in between.... |
Audience GuideThere's a chance that you may not be familiar with the way a lot of folk clubs operate. Hopefully, this will help. Understand, I'm not pompously laying down the law here - this is just my observation of the workings most of the clubs that I frequent. |
Performer Guide Same caveat as the Audience Guide |
| Words About Music snippets of prose that have struck me as particularly evocative. Consider the following: The Bass by William Matthews Good Jazz by Charles Mingus Fiddler Jones from Edgar Lee Masters A Gracious Thing from John Steinbeck (this particularly evocative passage from "The Grapes of Wrath" caught the attention of John & Sheila Ludgate, aka "Suburban Folk". The resulting song, "Steinbeck's Guitar", is being used by the Steinbeck Centre in Salinas, California. Go to their site, Suburban Folk & click on 'FILM' to hear it.) |
The Ten Commandments
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Acoustic Bass GuitarsJust some random thoughts on a subject of particular interest to me. |
"Started July 21, 2006, acousticroof.ca is a network that aims to facilitate the growth of house concerts in communities for the benefit of music artists, and audiences." The growth of house concerts as viable performance venues is a relatively recent phenomenon. Here's an even more recent site dedicated to them. |
Festival Stage ManagementA to Z
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AND, just for the record, this page was originally done on Mozilla
Composer; I don't know nuthin' 'bout no html, the background on this page is
a lovely soft magenta, and if it comes up blushing pink on your computer,
Okay, okay, all that miserable nagging. E-nuff awready! Just as an experiment, let's try this. On my machine this is now a soft pastel, I' don't know, sorta salmon. If it ain't on yours, see previous statement!
