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Fred Eaglesmith
A new Father's Day
tradition in Montreal.
Sunday, June 15
Petit Campus (57
Prince Arthur E.)
8 p.m. $25
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Who is Fred Eaglesmith?
Fred is a Canadian singer/songwriter/comedian/painter with 15 CDs to
his credit. He has spent the past decade performing (with his band) at 300 or so
North American venues per year and
recently he's toured Holland, the UK and Australia.
Fred has won both a Juno and a
Canadian Independent Music award and
his songs have been covered by the Cowboy Junkies, Chris Knight, Mary
Gauthier, Dar Williams, James King, Kasey Chambers and Blackie and the
Rodeo Kings plus
his songs have also appeared in Martin Scorsese and James Caan films
Fred writes about Everyman – truck drivers, snowplow operators, small
town boys – with authenticity and poignancy
he attracts a contingent of ultra-devoted fans, who are known
affectionately as "Fredheads".
He owns his own record label and is one of music's most successful indie acts.
Fred is currently a spokesperson for Oxfam's Make Trade Fair, and Make
Poverty History campaigns
In June 2005, his paintings were shown at the Rockingham Arts & Museum
Project, in Bellows Falls, Vermont
earlier art shows include the Lighthouse Theatre Art Gallery (Port
Dover, Ontario) in Dec. 2004.
Fred was born into a family of nine children, and grew up on farms in
Southern Ontario.
He is based in Port Dover (on the shore of Lake Erie), where his own
farm runs entirely on wind and solar power.
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