CFMA’s, OCFF, Imminent India!

October 24, 2011

After what felt like a decade of living in airports, I’ve landed back in Toronto with just enough time to empty out my inbox, and sweet-mother-of-macintosh, if there wasn’t a couple of Canadian Folk Music Awards waiting for me!  That rascal of an album Manic Almanac got me nominated for “Best Instrumental Solo Artist of the [...]

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UPCOMING

September 20, 2011

Fresh off a week in the UK, I’m now in the van halfway down our westcoast tour with the Delhi2Dublin crew, and finally finding time to put a few of these news muses on good ol’ fashioned digital paper.  We have a bunch of dates left in the Bay area, and then get to spend [...]

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The Biggest show I’ve ever played: Dukes, Duchesses, and Double-timing

September 19, 2011

Canada Day in Ottawa found me playing twice on Parliament hill with Delhi2Dublin performing new tunes written by yours truly, for a crowd 100,000 strong- including the mysteriously popular royal couple (who said very nice things to us after the show, which I couldn’t understand a word of, as they were speaking in British). Also [...]

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Folkfest-O-Phile

September 19, 2011

From July 1 onward, it was a folkfest binge time, sometimes playing 3 festivals in 3 different places, with 3 different bands, in the same weekend! Highlights include meeting David Grisman and his son at Worldfest in California, re-uniting with my first fiddle teacher Daniel Lapp in a jazz workshop at the Comox Music fest, [...]

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The Secret Decapitated Fiddle

September 19, 2011
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Something that virtually no one knew about while all these fantastic festicular times were flying along, is that on the very first gig of this permafest tour, I finished the last song of the night with a literal crashbang that left me on my back with a broken fiddle next to me.  I don’t know [...]

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Artings

September 19, 2011
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You know you’re doing something right when someone creates an hour long “live comic book performance” about your band!   Recent OCAD graduate Andrew forester commissioned me to write a night’s worth of psychograss performed the bluegrass-trio version of the Opposites for the premier of his thesis work “Tin Canyon”.  It sounds like a live audiobook [...]

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Recording Romps

September 19, 2011

During my few days home there’s been some fun studio times for upcoming albums by Autorickshaw, Nick taylor as well as a documentary scored by Rich Pell, where I get to play during the crowning moments as the world’s first man-powered ornithopter takes flight!   New on the discography page:   Firecracker Ronley Teper’s album [...]

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New websites Jaronfreemanfox.com and theoppositeofeverything.com!

June 30, 2011

Welcome to the new website! New look and new toys- such as the ability to update the news page and share my numerous and frequent insights! Now… um…. what to write about…

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Touring Times

June 30, 2011

Loads of folk festival fun this summer! Ottawa Jazz, Mariposa, Kispiox, Blueskies, Red Rock and Guelph Jazz with The Opposite of Everything!  Other highlights include Comox Folk and Vancouver Folk Fest with The David Woodhead Confabulation, and California World Music Festival, and Belfast Mela Festival with Delhi2Dublin  

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