We do.ĬFUN CANCON October 2011 Aarons And Ackley Aaron, Lee Aaron Space Abbey Tavern Singers, The Abbittibi Abraham's Children Abramson, Ronney Absolute 9 Absolute Whores Absurds, The Aceboy Ackers, Buddy Ackroyd, Gayle Acosta-Russell Acoustically Inclined Action, The (1970's) Action, The (1960's) Actionauts Active Dog Active Joy Adams, Bryan Adams, Charlie Adams, Chef Adams, Donna Adams, George Adams, Greg Adlam, Clare Adopted Adventures In Paradise Adversity Aerial Afghanistan Banana Stand After All Agent Age Of Electric Age Of Mirrors Agharta Aglukark, Susan Airkraft Airlift Ajour A.K.A. Don't for a minute think that we in the US don't love you. I am raising a glass of Labatts Blue to all my Maple Leaf friends on SHMF. So thank you Canada for Neil, Joni and Leonard, Gordon and for McGarrigle Sisters, Bruce Coburn, Leon Redbone and K D Lang and all the other musicians who performed at Mariposa. I love hearing the Canadian anthem to this day in ballparks and stadiums in Upstate NY and I sing along. I could go on about my love for Canadian music. I never would have seen the tour but for my friends in Toronto. I was unemployed and still in Buffalo, but I scraped together enough cash for a bus ride to Toronto and a decent ticket. When Dylan and The Band toured behind Planet Waves in 1974, it was like the Second Coming to me. Sadly, I gave then to the babysitter at the dawn of the CD era. My first Dylan albums were Canadian monos that were being sold for a dollar in downtown Buffalo. When the Stones toured behind Exile, I "slept" all night outside Maple Leaf Gardens to get good (well, pretty fair) seats on the floor. I missed the year Dylan and Joni both showed up, but in other years Mariposa provided my first up close exposure to John Prine, Bruce Coburn, Utah Phillip, Rambling Jack Elliott, Steve Goodman and and so many others. When I was in college, I went three years in a row to the Mariposa Folk Festival on idyllic Toronto Islands. As a young teen, I loved CHUM and the music it played. CHUM was tight with the Beatles and sponsored their visits to Toronto in 1964, 19. In Buffalo, we had the mighty WKBW blasting out 50,000 watts of Beatles in 1964 but we could also receive AM 1050 CHUM blasting out the hits from Toronto. I want to write about how fortunate I feel to have grown up in Buffalo, NY, just over the border from Canada, and to have had so many wonderful interactions with Canadians and their music. Today's news headlines disturb me greatly, but I am not here to write about those.
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