The Road Back Home Signed Limited Edition LP

It was in Winnipeg in the 1970s where I first fell in love with Celtic music, nurtured in the aromatic walls of the Woodwright carpentry shop on Main Street, attended by likewise lovers of traditional music, especially that of the Bothy Band, Planxty, Steeleye Span, Maddy Prior and Alan Stivell. Some attendees originating from Ireland and England came armed with their guitars, squeezeboxes and dulcimers, while others came with their voices lifting them into sea shanties and folk songs in multiple-part harmony. We’d leave those Sunday night sessions with hearts full of joy and our arms full of borrowed vinyl which we listened to night and day.My time in Winnipeg would lead me to perform at folk clubs and the very first Winnipeg Folk Festival, just down the road in Birds Hill Park. It was a love-fest of cross-cultural musical expressions surrounded by a food village, which at night glittered with twinkling lights. We all got lost in the magic of the music which infused the summer night a