Fraser Union
Fraser Union is a Vancouver-based Canadian folk music group, formed in 1983.[1] CBC Radio helped bring early national attention to them on the Max Ferguson Show. For four decades their music has most often told stories of Canadian working people[2]. Their focus on labour and progressive issues drew them into collaboration with Tom Wayman[3] and the Vancouver Industrial Writers' Union[4]. Together they produced Split/Shift: songs and poems of the workplace[5]. Fraser Union's festival performances include the 2007 Vancouver Folk Music Festival[6], where they presented a stage titled "Songs of the Pacific Northwest" dedicated to the work of BC folk song collector Philip J. Thomas[7]. In 2008 they returned to the Vancouver Folk Music Festival [8]to do the same for the legendary Utah Phillips. They have also performed at Vancouver Island MusicFest, ArtsWells, Filberg Festival, and the Princeton Traditional Music Festival,[9] among others throughout British Columbia. In addition to festivals, they perform regularly in folk clubs, and in concerts to benefit social causes.[10]
Their group name derives from the intersecting references to the Fraser River, Simon Fraser University, Fraser Street, etc., all significant to the band’s location in Vancouver. By the time of their first, self-titled, recording in 1988[11] they were a male quartet: Roger Holdstock, Henk Piket, Dan Kenning, and Barry Truter[12], all of whom met through and were presidents of the Vancouver Folk Song Society.[13] From 1987 until 2008 the quartet remained the same until Dan Kenning retired, leaving the trio to carry on until 2018 when they were joined by Kathy Griffin.
Discography
- 1988 Fraser Union[14]
- 1989 Split Shift[15][16]
- 1991/2003 Hello, Stranger[17]
- 2000 From There to Here[18]
- 2006 This Old World
- 2009 B.C. Songbook[19]
References
- ↑ "Fraser Union". Fraser Union. 20 April 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Gallant, Dave (Sep. 18, 2013). "Coffee House Opener: Fraser Union". Sooke New Mirror. Retrieved June 9, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help); Check date values in:|date=(help) - ↑ Wayman, Tom (1983). Inside Job: Essays on the New Work Writing. Vancouver: Harbour Publishing. pp. 9–32. ISBN 0-920080-46-4. Search this book on
- ↑ Twigg, Alan (Autumn 1989). "How the West was sung". B.C. Bookworld: np – via ABC Bookworld.
- ↑ Edge, Steve (October 1989). "Rogue Albums of the Month". Rogue Folk Review. 3, no. 11: 3.
- ↑ Simpson, Dugg (Summer 2007). "30th Annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival". Vancouver Folk Music Festival. Archived from the original on June 10, 2020. Retrieved June 9, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help)CS1 maint: Unfit url (link) - ↑ Thomas, Philip (1979). Songs of the Pacific Northwest. Vancouver: Hancock House. p. 111. ISBN 0-919654-89-4. Search this book on
- ↑ "Vancouver Folk Music Festival Archives". Vancouver Folk Music Festival. Retrieved 24 April 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Gregory, David (2010). "Trial Run: A Mini-festival at Princeton 2007". Canadian Folk Music/ Musique folklorique canadienn. XLIV, no..1-2: 5–7.
- ↑ Sidor, Penny (March 12, 2007). "Fraser Union--harmony, songs of social justice". The Gabriola Sounder. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Edge, Steve (October 1989). "Rogue Albums of the Month". Rogue Folk Review. 3, no. 11: 3.
- ↑ Maike, Deb (February 7, 1990). "Fraser Union to Perform at Folk Guild". The Cowichan News Leader. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Holdstock, Roger (March 1986). "Vancouver Folk Song Society" (PDF). Canadian Folk Music Bulletin. 20 no.1: 8–10 – via Canadian Folk Music Bulletin Archives.
- ↑ Edge, Steve (October 1989). "Rogue Albums of the Month". Rogue Folk Review. 3, No. 11: 3.
- ↑ Downie and Tranfield, Glen and Pam (1991). More Than Our Jobs: An Anthology. Vancouver: Pulp Press. pp. Introduction. Search this book on
- ↑ Gallaher, Bill (June 1989). "Split/Shift" (PDF). Canadian Folk Music. 23 no.2: 17 – via Google.
- ↑ Hawkesworth, Bob (February 17, 2008). "20 Questions: Alderman Bob Hawkesworth in his own words". Calgary Sun News. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Rodriguez, Robert (December 2003). "Review of Fraser Union: From There to Here". Folknik. 39 no. 6.
- ↑ Readman, Tim (Spring 2012). "Review of Fraser Union's album "BC Songbook"". Penguin Eggs. No. 53: 66.
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