July 20 - ♪gd: 1994 Newfoundland simuldescrips: Don Wherry + the Black Auks, Perkis + Nunn, Walsh, Bittova + Underhill, Shaking Ray Levis, Hession-Wilkinson-Fell, From Scratch
Don Wherry - uncredited photo which appears at Discogs
SO IN THE WINTER OF 1994, I had just gotten two arts grants at once (one from the Canada Council to prepare a book on New Music America and the other to help my local art gallery prepare a book on its history) and yet at the same time, a third opportunity came up where the Sound Symposium festival asked me to create that year’s program for the summer festival (something I had done for the previous one in 1992).
And thus with a newly purchased laptop (a second hand Macbook), I went to St. John’s in February to stay with festival directors Don Wherry and Kathy Clark at their home. Don had a studio in his basement and jammed with friends every week and he invited me to come and sit down and “write something”. It was where I realized I could way outstrip the hand-written descriptions tha…