Founding the Folk
Early articles about the VFSS
30 Years Ago in the VFSS: Linda Chobotuck
Linda Chobotuck says she’s been lurking around the VFSS since it met in the Granville Island Community Centre. She was lured in by then-president Anna Holbech Bjarnason. [Ed.: Our records show that Bjarnason was president in 1980.] “I grew up in a folkie family with a mother who came from a parlour-singing tradition and was…
50 Years Ago in the VFSS: Barry Hall
Barry Hall grew up in what was then called the [Vancouver] Folk Song Circle during the 1960s, first attending at an early age and wowing everyone with his prodigious talent on banjo. In 1964, he was asked to record an album for highly respected Folkways Records (now Smithsonian Folkways). As you can see from the…