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-- Good Times, Great Music --
by Melissa Tait & Joe Bryska - Winnipeg Free Press

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Bruce Cockburn - Winnipeg Folk Festival, David Landy Collection, Archives of Manitoba

9 July 2015 - Last month, the Free Press sat down with Winnipeg Folk Festival legend Mitch Podolak and asked him to flip through a pile of archival photographs of the event he founded 41 years ago.

"We owe the Winnipeg Folk Festival in a lot of ways to Bruce (Cockburn), because people did not have any idea at all what a folk festival was — none. We knew we had Bruce and we used Bruce in a way we didn’t use anybody else.

"We said, ‘There’s a free Bruce Cockburn concert in the park,’ and 14,000 people showed up the first night to see that, and what they got was the folk festival. Thank you, Bruce."

From the article From the article Good Times, Great Music by Melissa Tait & Joe Bryska. Photo - Photo: 1975 Winnipeg Folk Festival, David Landy Collection, Archives of Manitoba.





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This page is part of The Cockburn Project, a unique website that exists to document the work of Canadian singer-songwriter and musician Bruce Cockburn. The Project archives self-commentary by Cockburn on his songs and music, and supplements this core part of the website with news, tour dates, and other current information.