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Maison Radio-Canada
Musicians: Jody Golick (saxophone and vocals), Joel Zifkin (violin and vocals), Kit Johnson (bass), Danny Greenspoon (guitar). Murray McLauchlan hosted and performed. Also included brief interview material. The Bliminals were represented by Jody Golick and Joel Zifkin, and performed as indicated. Broadcast April 7.
Band: Jane (keyboards), Joel Zifkin (violin and bass), Kit Johnson (bass, guitar and vocals). This set (perhaps others also) was recorded by CBC during the six-day residence and the songs marked * were broadcast - probably on September 28. See next entry.
Band: Jane, Joel Zifkin (violin), Chaim Tannenbaum, Jason Lang (guitar and vocals). Possibly broadcast by German radio.
Set: Love Is / Mother Mother / Complainte pour Ste-Catherine.
Broadcast by K-Rock radio. Also appearing were Eric Andersen, Tom & Steve Chapin and David Bromberg.
Preview
Band: Scott Lang (bass), Jason Lang (guitar), Joel Zifkin (violin), Chaim Tannenbaum
Supporting Billy Bragg. Also appearing Pete Seeger and Robin Holcomb.
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Band: Joel Zifkin (violin), Jason Lang (guitar), Kit Johnson (bass).
With Ksenia Mack and Daisy Chain.
New Orleans Fair Grounds Racetrack
Any attempt at listing all of the performers at the Festival would be foolish. However, other performers on the WVUE / WNOE stage on the Thursday were Grupo Kaibil and Snooks Eaglin, who preceded Kate & Anna, and Taj Mahal and Richie Havens who appeared afterwards. Others appearing on other stages on the same day were Dash Rip Rock, Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas, C.J.Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band, The Bluerunners. The following were among many acts who also appeared during in the festival - Los Lobos, B.B. King, Dr. John, Leon Russell, Robert Cray, Michael McDonald, Wild Magnolias, John Mayall and His Bluebreakers, Indigo Girls and The Meters.
Also appearing were Livingston Taylor, John Sebastian, John Hammond, Rory Block, Jorma Kaukonen, Dave Van Ronk, Vassar Clements, Joseph Parsons & The Low Road. MC: Jim Albertson.
A tribute to Wade Hemsworth hosted by Murray McLauchlan. Includes interview material. Presumed to be the programme that was filmed by CBC TV and appears during their special on Wade Hemsworth on November 3, 1992. The show was definitely broadcast on September 28, 1991.
Musicians: Wade Hemsworth (guitar & vocals), Murray McLauchlan (guitar, harmonica & vocals), Kate McGarrigle (banjo & vocals), Anna McGarrigle (accordion & vocals), Joel Zifkin (violin), Kit Johnson (bass), Danny Greenspoon (guitar), Dane Lanken (vocals), Jane McGarrigle (vocals), Peter Weldon (banjo).
Also appearing were Spirit of the West, Stephen Fearing and Murray McLaughlan. Kate & Anna performed a tribute to Wade Hemsworth. CBC filmed proceedings some of which were broadcast November 3, 1992 (see below). Perform My Mother Is The Ocean Sea as the Mountain City 4 (with Peter Weldon and Dane Lanken) with Jane, Joel Zifkin, Danny Greenspoon and Kit Johnson also. Backing vocals and instruments for Wade Hemsworth on The Sinking of The I'm Alone, The Log Jam Song; also for Murray McLaughlan performing The Shining Birch Tree.
*with The Chieftains ** with Michael O'Mara ?
Band: Chaim Tannenbaum, Pierre Marchand (bass, drums), Michael Breen (Michel Pepin) (guitar) Joel Zifkin (violin). Also appearing Berdien Stenberg. The Chieftains played a number of London shows from July 7 to July 15 - their Music Festival 1991 concert series. On each occasion they were joined by a guest artist(s) or a band.
Set: Swimming Song / J'ai tant danse / Heartbeats Accelerating / DJ Serenade / I Eat Dinner / Pronto Monto / Mother Mother / Love Is / Parlez-nous a boire / Entre la jeunesse et la sagesse / (Talk to me of) Mendocino / Kiss and Say Goodbye / Complainte pour Ste-Catherine / A la claire fontaine
Band: Pierre Marchand (bass), Michel Pepin (guitar) Joel Zifkin (violin).
4000 attend. Other performers during the four day festival included Edith Butler, Karen Young, Takadja, Blue Tremblay, Genevieve Paris, Shawn Phillips and local New Glasgow musicians.
Band: Pierre Marchand (bass), Michel Pepin (guitar) Joel Zifkin (violin).
Third act to appear on the Saturday. Also appearing on the 10th were Randy Newman, Suzanne Vega, Indigo Girls, Bill Morrissey, John Prine, Boozoo Chavis and Paul Geremia.
A musical postlude to the acclaimed TV series by Ken Burns, other performers were Hoyt Axton, Judy Collins, John Hartford, Richie Havens, Waylon Jennings, Kathy Mattea, and the United States Military Academy band. Later released on video cassette and CD.
Also advertised as appearing were Youssou N'Dour, The Real Calypsonians, Remmy Ongala & Orchestresuper Matimila, Mari Boine Persen, Cauld Blast Orchestra, Hot Licks Cookies, The Philippine Baranggay Folk Dance Troupe, Ruthless Rap Assassins, Ensemble Diona Bucurestiuli, Huellas, African Headcharge, Jay Chandran, Toumani Diabate, Terem Quartet, Samulnori, Grupo Canaribe, Mzwhake Mbuli, Srdan Petrov Ensemble, Tibet Institute of Performing Atrs, Toto La Momposina, Savourna Stevenson Trio, La Bottine Souriante, Marta Sebastyen and Muszikas, Mustapha Tetty Addy and Obunu Drummers, Pol Brennan, Guo Yoe, Joji Hirota, Noise Khanyile & J'oburg City Stars, One Fish Blue Fish, Ice Factory and This Picture.
Set: D J Serenade / I'm Losing You / Sun, Son (Shining On The Water) / Leave Me Be / Love Is / Mother Mother / Parlez nous a boire / (Talk to Me of) Mendocino / Complainte pour Ste-Catherine / Heart Like a Wheel / Kiss and Say Goodbye
accompanying De Danaan for final festival song
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
also played but not broadcast
Swimming Song / As Fast As My Little Feet / I Eat Dinner / Parlez-nous a boire / Heartbeats Accelerating / unknown Joel Zifkin song Band: Kit Johnson (guitar & bass), Joel Zifkin (violin)
Broadcast on Radio Denmark. Kiss and Say Goodbye was included in a Danish TV programme about the festival. Also performing were De Danaan, The French Alligators, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Ralph McTell, Hamish Imlach, Nashville Bluegrass Band, Eleanor Shanley and others.
Band: Joel Zifkin (violin), Michel Pepin (guitar). Supported by Connie Kaldor.
Band: Joel Zifkin (violin), Michel Pepin (guitar).
Set: Heart Like a Wheel / Heartbeats Accelerating / Entre la jeunesse et la sagesse / I Eat Dinner / Hard Times Come Again No More (with Rufus) / Complainte pour Ste-Catherine / Motherless Children.
Band: Michel Pepin (bass, guitar), Joel Zifkin (violin)
Also Steve Forbert, Bill Morrissey, Al Stewart & Peter White. Possibly broadcast May 9. Certainly broadcast by WFUV-FM May 15. Audio for Heart Like a Wheel available here.
Band: Michel Pepin (bass, guitar), Joel Zifkin (violin)
Band: Michel Pepin (bass, guitar), Scott Lang (guitar), Joel Zifkin (violin)
Opening for The Chieftains.
Dalhousie Student Union Building,
Dalhousie University
Band: Michel Pepin (bass, guitar), Joel Zifkin (violin)
Part of the Sol Entertainment Radio 1 American Music Festival: Canada Focus - North of The Border presentation. Supported by Blue Rodeo and Loreena McKennit. BBC Radio 1 In Concert broadcast songs marked * on December 3, 1992.
First appearance at the Edmonton Folk Festival. On Saturday morning Kate & Anna take part in a Lives of Girls and Women workshop on Stage 3 with Peggy Seeger, Coleen Peterson and Ani Di Franco. They perform on the Main Stage in the afternoon and later take part in a Tribute to Ewan MacColl workshop on Stage 2 with Dick Gaughan and Peggy Seeger & Irene Scott. Joel Zifkin takes part in a fiddle workshop in Tent A.
Band included: Joel Zifkin (violin), Kit Johnson (bass, guitar)
Also appearing over the three days were were 3 Dead Trolls in a Baggie, Pat Alger, Dave Alvin, O.J. Anderson, Apurimac, Dan Ar Braz, Arcady, The Bhundu Boys, Bourne and MacLeod, David Broza, Meryn Cadell, Cindy Church and Nathan Tinkham, Ry Cooder, Edward II, David Essig, Christine Lavin, Julie Gold, Sally Fingerett, Four Bitchin' Babes, Lennie Gallant, Amos Garrett and the Festival House Band (Bohdan Hluszko, Kit Johnson, Ron Casat), Rusty Reed, Dick Gaughan, The Hard Rock Miners, Judy Anderson-Hansen and Steve Hansen, Jane Hawley, The Holmes Brothers, Jackson Delta, Tom Jackson, Shingoose, Dave Cramer, Paul Ubana Jones, Alias Ron Kavana, Laurie Lewis & the Grant Street Band, David Lindley, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Oscar Lopez, Charlie Louvin & Charles Whitstein, Manigance, Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited, Mark Koenig Trio, Mike McDonald, Eileen McGann, Tommy McGinty, Tony Michael, Lynn Miles, Cathy Miller, Pete Morton, Geoff Muldaur, Maria Muldaur, Open Mind, Colleen Peterson, Lionel Rault, Red Thunder Cultural Society, Karl Roth, Tom Russell, Lesley Schatz, Peggy Seeger & Irrene Scott, The Seldom Scene, Al Simmons, Martin & Jessica Simpson, Watson Smarch, Chris Smither, Toots and the Maytals, Triple Threat, Lucinda Williams, Kathleen Yearwood.
Also appearing were Robert Charlebois, Michel Rivard, Claude Dubois, Dominique Michel, Jean-Pierre Ferland, Dan Bigras, Gino Vannelli, Nanette Workman, Pierre Flynn, Luc De Larochellière, Louise Forestier and Richard Séguin. Highlights broadcast on Canadian TV on October 11, May 30, 1993 and September 11, 1993. Video available here
The Songs of Wade Hemsworth - CBC TV
Included: The Blackfly Song (live & film versions) / Log Driver's Waltz (film version, incomplete) / Shining Birch Tree (live, Kate & Anna back-up vocals - incomplete). Interview with Kate & Anna. Also featured isThe Wild Goose from film of the recording of the Swinging On a Star special (see July, 1991) and film from the Winnipeg Folk Festival (see July 6, 1991) performing My Mother Is The Ocean Sea as the Mountain City 4 (with Peter Weldon and Dane Lanken) with Jane, Joel Zifkin, Danny Greenspoon and Kit Johnson also. Backing vocals and instruments for Wade Hemsworth on The Sinking of the I'm Alone, The Log Jam Song also for Murray McLaughlan performing The Shining Birch Tree.
Also appearing were Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris, Maura O'Connell, Gloria Estefan, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Dionne Warwick, Carole King and Deniece Williams. Repeated Jan 7, 11,16 & 25, 1993. Released commercially on video at the end of January 1993.
Band: Michel Pepin (bass, guitar), Pierre Lessard (violin & viola).
Set above unidentified as early or late. Supported by Diane Ziegler.
Band: Michel Pepin (bass, guitar), Pierre Lessard (violin & viola).
Westchester Community College
Band: Michel Pepin (bass, guitar), Pierre Lessard (violin).
Other artists appearing included Odetta, Tommy Makem, Pete Seeger, Livingston Taylor, Danny Quinn, Cathy Winter and Bob Zentz, Cherish the Ladies, Betty and the Baby Boomers, Flor de Cana, Shashmaqam, Paul Taylor and Mixashawn.
Also appearing were The Ukrainians,Oumou Sangare, Familie Brahimi, Ando Drom, Taraf de Haïdouks, Baba Jam Band, Dick Gaughan, Värttinä, Maria Kalaniemi, Mark & Anne Savoy, Four Men and A Dog, Clastrier/Riessler/Rizzo. Performance of Kiss and Say Goodbye appears on the festival CD for that year.
Possibly broadcast on German radio.
Band: Michel Pepin (bass, guitar), Pierre Lessard (violin).
Band: Michel Pepin (bass, guitar), Pierre Lessard (violin). Supporting the Neville Brothers. Rufus, Martha, Dane, Sylvan & Lily backing vocals on some songs.
& T.K. Ramakrishnan, Bill Smith, Sara Grey, Denis Pepin, Jeter le Pont, Keith Wallace, Dan Berggren, Serge Desaunay, Village Harmony, Dick McCormack, Gilles Losier, Gabriel & Richard Labbe, Billy Jackson & Tony Cuffe, Tony DeMarco & Linda Hickman, Bob Yellin & the Joint Chiefs of Bluegrass, Shashmaqam, the Bukharan Jewish Ensemble, Ralph Blizzard, Phil Jamison & Gordy Hiners, Benoit Bourque with Eric Savreace, Daniel Roy & Paul Marchand, Skip Gorman & Ron Kane.
Interview with Marty Moss-Coane also.
Afternoon appearance after Four Bitchin' Babes (Christine Lavin, Julie Gold, Sally Fingerett and Megon McDonough). Possible workshop appearances. Also appearing on the 28th were Jane Gillman & Darcy Deaville, Trout Fishing in America, Walt Michael & Co., Saul Broudy, Shetland's Young Heritage, William Pint & Felicia Dale, The Seldom Scene, John Flynn, Patty Larkin, Paul Ubana Jones, Susan Werner. Probably many others.
Includes interviews. Broadcast January 30, 1994 by CBC-FM radio 'Hot Ticket' with Karen Gordon.
Band: Michel Pepin (guitar), Joel Zifkin (violin).
Band: Michel Pepin (guitar), Joel Zifkin (violin).
Band: Michel Pepin (guitar, bass), Joel Zifkin (violin, guitar)
Band: Michel Pepin (guitar, bass), Joel Zifkin (violin, guitar)
Supported by Upstairs in a Tent. [Ticket says The Deighton Family].
Band: Michel Pepin (guitar, bass), Joel Zifkin (violin, guitar)
It is not known whther this event ever took place as it was rescheduled for August. Originally advertised were the Chieftains, Joan Baez, Richie Havens, John Hammond, Solomon Burke, Arlo Guthrie, Riders in the Sky, Eric Andersen, Loudon Wainwright III, Dave Van Ronk and David Grisman.
unknown dates although 14th was the date the McGarrigles arrived for taping and 23rd was date they arrived home.
Other artists present were Michelle Wright, Iris DeMent, Mary Black, Kathy Mattea, Dougie MacLean, Mairead ni Mhaonaigh, Rod Paterson, John Martyn and a host of backing musicians including Jerry Douglas, Donal Lunny, Danny Thompson, Davy Spillane, Martin Bennett, Simon Thoumire, and Phil Cunningham. Broadcast May 14, 1995. Rebroadcast 12 & 19 April 1996, and 13 & 20 February 2009. Available on commercial DVD & three CDs as The Original Transatlantic Sessions.