About: Fraser Union     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FFraser_Union&invfp=IFP_OFF&sas=SAME_AS_OFF

Fraser Union is a Vancouver-based Canadian folk music group, formed in 1983. CBC Radio helped bring early national attention to them on the Max Ferguson Show. For four decades their music has most often told stories of Canadian working people. Their focus on labour and progressive issues drew them into collaboration with Tom Wayman, Kate Braid and the Vancouver Industrial Writers' Union. Together they produced Split/Shift: songs and poems of the workplace. Fraser Union's festival performances include the 2007 Vancouver Folk Music Festival, where they presented a stage titled "Songs of the Pacific Northwest" dedicated to the work of BC folk song collector Philip J. Thomas. In 2008 they returned to the Vancouver Folk Music Festival to do the same for the legendary Utah Phillips. They have al

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Fraser Union (en)
rdfs:comment
  • Fraser Union is a Vancouver-based Canadian folk music group, formed in 1983. CBC Radio helped bring early national attention to them on the Max Ferguson Show. For four decades their music has most often told stories of Canadian working people. Their focus on labour and progressive issues drew them into collaboration with Tom Wayman, Kate Braid and the Vancouver Industrial Writers' Union. Together they produced Split/Shift: songs and poems of the workplace. Fraser Union's festival performances include the 2007 Vancouver Folk Music Festival, where they presented a stage titled "Songs of the Pacific Northwest" dedicated to the work of BC folk song collector Philip J. Thomas. In 2008 they returned to the Vancouver Folk Music Festival to do the same for the legendary Utah Phillips. They have al (en)
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
sameAs
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
has abstract
  • Fraser Union is a Vancouver-based Canadian folk music group, formed in 1983. CBC Radio helped bring early national attention to them on the Max Ferguson Show. For four decades their music has most often told stories of Canadian working people. Their focus on labour and progressive issues drew them into collaboration with Tom Wayman, Kate Braid and the Vancouver Industrial Writers' Union. Together they produced Split/Shift: songs and poems of the workplace. Fraser Union's festival performances include the 2007 Vancouver Folk Music Festival, where they presented a stage titled "Songs of the Pacific Northwest" dedicated to the work of BC folk song collector Philip J. Thomas. In 2008 they returned to the Vancouver Folk Music Festival to do the same for the legendary Utah Phillips. They have also performed at Vancouver Island MusicFest, ArtsWells, Filberg Festival, and the Princeton Traditional Music Festival, among others throughout British Columbia. In addition to festivals, they perform regularly in folk clubs, and in concerts to benefit social causes. Their group name derives from the intersecting references to the Fraser River, Simon Fraser University, Fraser Street, etc., all significant to the band's location in Vancouver. By the time of their first, self-titled, recording in 1988 they were a male quartet: Roger Holdstock, Henk Piket, Dan Kenning, and Barry Truter, all of whom met through and were presidents of the Vancouver Folk Song Society. From 1987 until 2008 the quartet remained the same until Dan Kenning retired, leaving the trio to carry on until 2018 when they were joined by Kathy Griffin. (en)
prov:wasDerivedFrom
page length (characters) of wiki page
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 60 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software