Program
Concert, Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat Labour Songs of British Columbia
October 21, 2022 from 8:00pm EDT to 10:00pm EDT
Location: Grey Eagle Hotel
Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat have been active in the collecting, analysis, publication and performance of vernacular song, particularly that of the BC-based industries of logging, fishing and mining, for the past 45 years. They are both life members of the Vancouver Folk Song Society, and have both been Presidents of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music. They have sung in schools and universities across North America, published two books and seven CDs dealing with the relationship between the history and the songs.
Speakers / Panelists
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Concert, Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat Labour Songs of British Columbia
October 21, 2022 from 8:00pm EDT to 10:00pm EDT
Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat
Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat
Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat
Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat, Independent Scholars, both retired teachers, have been active in the collecting, analysis, publication and performance of vernacular song, particularly that of the BC-based industries of logging, fishing and mining, for the past 45 years. They are both life members of the Vancouver Folk Song Society, and have both been Presidents of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music. They have sung in schools and universities across North America, Their interest in vernacular song led them to research settler songs from the Similkameen valley, where they live, to found and organize a traditional music festival in Princeton, and to publish two books and seven CDs dealing with the relationship between the history and the songs.