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The Arts for Peace Festival has been an annual event in Orillia for 26 years.  For some reason I cannot explain, this year was the first time we had attended.  It is a beautiful, intimate music and arts festival on the grounds of the Stephen Leacock Museum in Orillia.  While there, we met and heard [...]

Cheryl Gaudet is a songwriter who hails from Nova Scotia. She has 2 CDs of original music out.  In 1990,she had a dream to host a festival at the wonderful Eaglewood Resort in Pefferlaw,Ontario.  I caught up with her at the 20th annual Eaglewood Folk Festival.  We reminisced about past festivals, talked about songwriting and [...]

Tyler Firestone is a 19-year-old Folk/Rock, singer/songwriter who lives in Wasaga Beach, Ontario, Canada. He has been playing guitar and harmonica for over 5 years, as well as the piano, mandolin, and other instruments. Songwriting is his passion. He has written over 60 songs since 2005.  I met up with Tyler at my songwriter’s group’s [...]

George Coventry has been a friend and musical influence of mine for over 17 years.  I’m astounded that it took me over 3 years to get him on For the Sake of the Song.  Over the past 40 years, George has written hundreds of songs.   He has a gift for telling stories and looking at [...]

Doug McArthur is a veteran Canadian singer-songwriter.  He has worked both as performing musician and in Arts administration with organizations such as the Festival of Friends, the Toronto Jazz Festival and the  the Eaglewood Folk Festival.  I caught up to him at the 20th annual Eaglewood Folk Festival.  Enjoy. Songs: Theme Music: For the Sake of the [...]

Collette Savard is a singer-songwriter with two CDs out, Zen Boyfriend and Most Improved Cheerleader.  She performs as a duo with her producer, multi-instrumentalist, John Zytaruk. They came to my school last week courtesy of Stellula Music as part of their Music in the Schools Week.  At the end of the week, Collette, John and [...]

I’m very sorry. For over a month the Sue Passmore show has been available without any sound.   I’ve run into my friend and fan of For the Sake of the Song , Jeff Potts, several times in the last six weeks.  Each time, he mentioned that he was unable to open my For the [...]

Paul Mills is known in the Canadian roots music scene as a musician, songwriter, producer, co-founder of Borealis Records and as a former sideman of Stan Rogers.  He often performs under the name of Curly Boy Stubbs.  We met at the booth of guitar maker, Ron Belanger at the Mariposa Folk Festival.  You can [...]

Matt Masters is a young country singer-songwriter from Calgary. His music is deeply rooted in old-time country music. I sat down with him at the Eaglewood Folk Festival to  talk songwriting. Songs: Theme Music: For the Sake of the Song (©2003 S. McGaughey) Bow River  (© Matt Masters) Sancho and Don Coyote(© Matt Masters) You can leave comments on the [...]

Sue Passmore is the second member of the Good Lovelies that I have been able to interview for my podcast. We found a semi quiet spot in the woods during a break in the rain at the  Eaglewood Folk Festival to sit down and talk songwriting. I interviewed her bandmate, Caroline Brooks over a year [...]