Name that Singer!
In recent years, ____ has been plagued by health problems, including a stroke, post-polio health issues, and Morgellons disease, a rare, controversial, and mysterious condition.
Who is Joni Mitchell?
She's a _____, make you work hard
Make you spend hard, make you want all of her love
Have you heard Maneater by Nelly Furtado?
A flat-bodied stringed instrument with a long fretted neck and usually six strings played with a pick or with the fingers.
Ever played an Acoustic Guitar?
Nelly Furtado is the greatest folk singer of all time..
FALSE!
Woody Guthrie: The original folk singer/songwriter extraordinaire
Nelly Furtado
ALIVE!
Nelly Kim Furtado is a Canadian singer and songwriter.
The song “Sundown,” also stands as ____'s most successful recording. The song hit number one in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1975.
Who is Gordon Lightfoot?
I'm in a dream and I'm searching for something
That I might have been before I lost my mind, animated lies
Take me out in a roaring wind, we'll get lost
We'll throw away the old days
Have you heard Take me out by Sarah Harmer?
A bowed stringed instrument having four strings, and having a shallow body, shoulders at right angles to the neck, a fingerboard without frets, and a curved bridge.
Ever played a Violin?
Bob Dylan is a famous folk-rock singer, songwriter..
TRUE!
Folk-rock singer-songwriter Bob Dylan signed his first recording contract in 1961, and he emerged as one of the most original and influential voices in American popular music
Joni Mitchell
ALIVE!
Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell CC is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter.
______ took a step back from music and the public spotlight after a nervous breakdown in 2006.
Who is Nelly Furtado?
____ ____ ____ that blow lonely
Seven seas that run high
All those things that don't change come what may
But our good times are all gone
And I'm bound for movin' on
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way
Have you heard Four Strong Winds by Ian Tyson and his now ex wife Sylvia?
A small rectangular wind instrument with air slots from which tones are sounded by exhaling and inhaling.
Ever played the Harmonica?
Canadian traditional folk music came of European origin.
TRUE!
Traditional folk music of European origin has been present in Canada since the arrival of the first French and British settlers in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Stan Rogers
DEAD!
Stanley Allison Rogers was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter.
Visual artist known especially for their use of music to promote awareness of issues affecting Native Americans.
Who is Buffy Sainte-Marie?
I'm so hard to handle
I'm sеlfish and I'm sad
Now I've gone and lost the bеst baby
That I ever had
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on
Have you heard River by Joni Mitchell?
A portable wind instrument having a large bellows for forcing air through small metal reeds, a keyboard for the right hand, and buttons for sounding single bass notes or chords for the left hand.
Ever played the Accordion?
Canadian folk music is a very recent genre of music. Dating form the 19th and 20th century.
FALSE!
Canadian folk music has a long history, dating from the 16th and 17th century, mostly derived from the music of early settlers; much earlier for the music of indigenous people.
Gordon Lightfoot
ALIVE!
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. CC is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music.
640 acres near High River, Alta. ____'s divorce, finally, was settled - five/six years after Twylla, his second wife.
Who is Ian Tyson?
Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea
Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage
Have you heard Northwest Passage by Stan Rogers?
A musical instrument of the lute family that has a usually pear-shaped body and fretted neck and four to six pairs of strings.
Ever played the Mandolin?
FALSE!
Nelly Furtado took a step back from music and the public spotlight after a nervous breakdown in 2006. She will most likely never release a brand new song/album.
Leonard Cohen
DEAD!
Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist.