Merrick Jarrett and Friends

What/When
A concert to celebrate the contribution of KW musician Merrick Jarrett to the world of folk music will take place on Sunday, April 28 from 2 to 5:30 PM.

The concert is also a benefit for Kitchener-Waterloo’s Hopespring Cancer Support Centre.

Merrick Jarrett began his musical career as a singer of cowboy songs on radio stations in the fifties. He had his own folk music program on CKEY in Toronto, and performed regularly on the CBC on Edith Fowke’s folk music program. He was a performer at the first Mariposa Folk Festival and has shared many festival stages with names such as Gordon Lightfoot, Ian and Sylvia, The Weavers and Joan Baez. While working as a book salesman and, later, for the Kitchener Public Library, he traveled across Canada performing concerts for children. He taught ballad and traditional folk music courses at Conrad Grebel College (Unversity of Waterloo) for 17 years, touching the lives of thousands of students. His contribution to the folk music world in Canada has been enormous and deserves recognition, which this concert will provide!

Where
Waterloo North Mennonite Church, 100 Benjamin Rd., Waterloo

Who
The concert is being organized by a group of friends and former students of Merrick’s, who feel the time is right to honour a man who has devoted his life to sharing and teaching traditional music, ballads and song to generations of Canadians. The organizers come from the Baden "Second Story Tellers" guild and Kitchener’s Old Chestnuts Song Circle.

Featuring performers:

• Merrick Jarrett and The Jarrett Family
• Sharon, Lois & Bram (well-known children’s entertainers)
• John Allan Cameron (Cape Breton folk music icon)
• Lorne Brown (The Ballad Project, Canadian Folk Music Bulletin editor)
• Rick Fielding (Toronto recording artist and radio host)
• Rick Avery & Judy Greenhill (often part of CBC’s Vinyl Café Orchestra)
• GreenWood (local folk trio)
• Beverlie Robertson & Poor Charlie (local folk and blues performers)
• The Linton Family
• Ruth Shushan and Mark Pancer
• Jerry Gray and Joe Hampson (of THE TRAVELLERS)
• Chris White (Ottawa folk singer and presenter)
• Cathy Miller (British Columbia singer/songwriter)
• Tam Kearney (of Friends of Fiddlers Green)
• The Muir Family
• The Beirdo Bros. (Kitchener's own)

Tickets
Tickets are available at WordsWorth Books and Twelfth Night Music Shoppe, both in Waterloo, or from jhcole@mgl.ca or at the door.
Cost is $15 (Adult), $10 (Students and Seniors) and $5 (12 and under).

For Information contact Jack Cole, jhcole@mgl.ca, 519-578-6298 (Kitchener)

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