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I’ve been working on digitizing the stuff in these boxes I’ve been carrying around for years. Check back often for updates. : )

Robert Keziere photo 1973

I received an audio file from an old friend Nelson Becker recently. This is a real blast from the past, an hour-long interview on CFRO Co-Op Radio from 1975 with my rock and roll band Foxfire a little while after we got together. It’s filled in a few blanks in the memory banks about gigs and events from my earliest days playing music in Vancouver. I was 22 when this was recorded, and life was good! Enjoy these installments, and rest assured that no substances were abused during this interview…

Channelling Emmylou 1980 (photos by Millie Strom)

Back in 1973 I was in a cycle of working odd jobs, busking, and collecting unemployment. The insurance scheme was started by the Canadian government in 1940 as a panacea for the dreadful depression years. Everyone I knew back then was well-versed in the ‘no-no-yes-no-yes-no’ checkboxes on the biweekly forms you had to mail in, and we all lived with the existential dread of that cut-off letter. Of course what was a girl to do but write a tune about it?

Back in 2002 I had a radio show as part of my work in the Applied Communication Program at Camosun College and I got to interview just about every folk/roots artist who came through town that year. Click on the titles below for a few slices of Canadian music history. Enjoy!

OLD RADIO GRAPHIC