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
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