Do you have these records in your collection? Bruce is
coming back from Alberta to play ONE very special concert for his
cherished Montreal fans.
Montreal native, Greenwich Village folk singer, incredible
songwriter, and one of a few Montreal folk singers to sign with a major
American label. Bruce Murdoch has not played in Montreal in
over 30 years.
Bruce Murdoch is a singer-songwriter who was
born in Montreal on September 17, 1947. He was a regular on the
sixties Greenwich Village folk scene before returning to his native
Montreal . His first songs were recorded when he was just 17 years
old, as part of the "Singer-Songwriter Project" (Elektra, 1965 and
re-issued on CD in 2001). Bruce's first full length album "33 1/3
Revolutions Per Minute" was released in 1971 on Richie Havens' Stormy
Forest record label. A subsequent recording "Bruce Murdoch" was done
by Radio Canada International in 1980. Bruce was a regular at the
Yellow Door, Back Door, Montreal Folk Workshop and the Golem Coffee
House in the late sixties and early seventies and performed at many
high schools, colleges and universities in and around the province
of Quebec . He's worked as a high school English teacher for the
last 22 years in Alberta and did a stint as a high school principal
in the North West Territories for two years. For the last four
years, Bruce has been writing new material--both short stories and
songs--and Quebecers had a chance to listen to his new stuff at the
Folk Roots/Folk Branches Festival in Ormstown last July, as well as
on the Folk Roots/Folk Branches Program on CKUT. He is presently
working on a new CD which he expects to release in early 2008.
"Bruce Murdoch was a great singer-songwriter
from here in Montreal.
He's someone I really miss."
Mike Regenstreif
