Winnipeg Folk Festival

And, but it was mostly my songs and a couple like folk songs.

And then one other time, I think I brought him to the Winnipeg Folk Festival, both times in Winnipeg.

And he accompanied me as well.

But again, totally just like him playing guitar, singing a bit of harmonies and um mostly my songs so this was a brand new thing where we both came to the table as adults and as adult like fully formed songwriters yes i mean as fully formed as we were at that point like everybody's always changing and growing but uh Yeah, we wrote these tunes together and and then it's been a really beautiful like expression of our family relationship, our family stories.

So I started playing on street corners on Osborne Village.

And, and I already knew, uh, who Hound Dog were because we would go to the Winnipeg Folk Festival when I was a kid.

So I saw Brent Park and I saw all those guys.

Mm.

That's not up to us.

I think it's kind of similar to the way the Winnipeg Folk Festival runs their events.

They have the main event, the main festival, but they also have things year-round.

When I worked for an ad agency, they were one of our clients.

We had a discussion about that as far as people are going to be confused between the folk festival itself and then these other events.

Winnipeg Folk Festival presents.

Yeah.

I think that's an effort to kind of avoid that.

Yeah

... host at Winnipeg Folk Fest for so long, and I've been like, "I like her."

[laughs] You're the sweetest.

I do wanna talk about, can we start talking about the record?

How did you get started with them, and, and what was that like?

At a music conference at one point, I ran into Mitch Podollak, who, among other things, along with Eva Kobrinski, founded the Winnipeg Folk Festival, co-founded the Vancouver Folk Festival, founded the West End Cultural Center in Winnipeg, and so many other things, was very involved in the Stan Rogers Festival in Canso.

So I knew about Mitch, but I had never actually had a chance to meet him, so our paths crossed.

I started inviting him to come to Ottawa and share his enormous expertise about festivals.