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treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s my interview with The McDades fiddler, classical musician and record producer Shannon Johnson. She’s a Canadian treasure! www.rootsmusic.ca/2025/10/11/s...

Strings Attached: Shannon Johnson on Family, Folk and Finding Her Sound | Roots Music Canada

Edmonton, AB’s Shannon Johnson is a Juno Award-winning fiddle player, singer, producer and co-leader, with her two brothers, of The McDades. Formed in 1980, the band plays Celtic-rooted music blended ...

www.rootsmusic.ca

treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · 4d

Here's my interview with Vancouver Folk Song Society for Roots Music Canada www.rootsmusic.ca/2025/10/07/s...

Singing Together: VFSS, Community, and the Power of Song | Roots Music Canada

The Vancouver Folk Song Society (VFSS) is the longest-running continuous folk music club in Canada. It was founded in 1959 in Vancouver, BC, when Phil and Hilda Thomas, Al Cox, Jeannie Moss and Rolf I...

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treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · 9d

Foreign investors and Alberta Premiere Danielle Smith want to see gigantic tankers full of bitumen navigate these infamously dangerous waters. To get their way, they need Mark Carney to lift the tanker ban first. We say NO!!!! sierraclub.bc.ca/protect-the-...

Sign on to keep the North Coast Tanker Ban

Send a message to protect our coastal communities, orcas and salmon in northern British Columbia from more tankers and oil spills.

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treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · 9d

Gotcha!

treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · 11d

@debgoblue.bsky.social It seemed only right to send you a Go Blue link! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Go Blue - YouTube

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treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · 12d

September 30 marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a day to remember the victims and survivors of Canada’s residential school system, and to challenge ongoing colonialism.

treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · 16d

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Costly geoengineering schemes could stall real solutions

Some are clearly designed to allow the destructive fossil fuel industry to keep operating.

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treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · 16d

Autumnality.

treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · 18d

I’m looking forward to our concert to raise money for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank on November 2nd.
The gig has now been added to the schedule on the Notional Space site. The URL is -
notional.space/z-event-page...
Please share far and wide with your friends, family and fans.

FOOD BANK BENEFIT – Notional Space

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treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · 19d

"The leaves are turning from green to red and the geese are waiting to fly / There's a chill in the air that as the river flows beneath an autumn sky."

treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · 19d

"Water teaches us that transformation is both subtle and unstoppable... There is a current of change that moves beneath the surface despite the powers that be trying to drown us out. We are still here. We are still united." Jamie-Leigh Gonzales
Communications Manager, RAVEN
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Home - Raven Trust

RAVEN raises legal defence funds for Indigenous Nations who are in court to protect land, air and water for future generations.

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treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · 22d

It's Friday. Let's have a little dance shall we? www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Brand New Heavies, The - Brother Sister - YouTube

Brand New Heavies - Brother Sister, 1994

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treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · 25d

Here's the Amorphous Folk Collective on Instagram
www.instagram.com/reel/DOEUtvV...
They are one of the acts playing at our upcoming food bank benefit in Vancouver. See timreadman.com/shows/ for details.

Login • Instagram

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · 25d

Getting sick of music that all sounds the same? Then check this out! www.rootsmusic.ca/2025/09/17/a...

Album review: Tone of Voice Orchestra – Running from the Devil | Roots Music Canada

The critical consensus about Denmark’s Tone of Voice Orchestra is that you’ve never heard anything like them, that their music defies categorization, that their highly original arrangements contain co...

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treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · 26d

YouTube links to the deleted Fear of Drinking albums Get on With It, It Could Happen to You and One Morning When I Went to Work:
Get on With It
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
It Could Happen to You
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One Morning When I Went to Work
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Fear of Drinking - Get on With It - YouTube

The debut Fear of Drinking album released on cassette only in 1993.

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treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · 29d

The very first signs of autumn 🍂 are upon us.

treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · Sep 12

Most people worldwide want action on climate change. A significant majority would even be willing to give up some of their income to help. You wouldn’t learn that from most mainstream media or politicians. davidsuzuki.org/story/want-c...

Want climate action? You’re part of a silenced majority

Many people who support robust climate action simply don’t know they’re part of a large majority.

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treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · Sep 11

Yesterday, we were pleased to see Keir Starmer repeat his promise to ban fracking for good during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons. But the big question is when? action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/tel...

Tell Keir Starmer to make the fracking ban permanent

Nigel Farage's Reform party has declared it wants to “drill baby drill” if it wins the next general election. There’s a temporary pause on fracking in England, but it’s not even written into law. So i...

action.friendsoftheearth.uk

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treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · Sep 10

The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) is taking action to defend their Treaty rights. For nine months, the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) concealed information from ACFN about toxic tailings discharges from the Kearl Oil Sands facility. raventrust.donorsupport.co/page/FUNZVUA...

Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation: Restoring the River, Restoring Justice

Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) is taking legal action to hold the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) accountable for toxic tailings spills that have contaminated key areas of their traditional te...

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treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · Sep 9

Apologies folks - I clearly don't know what I am doing. Those links only work for me and nobody else! I am now working on a different way of making the three albums available - stay tuned!

treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · Sep 7

The first 3 Fear of Drinking albums are all out of print. Hear then on YouTube for free here:

Get on With It
music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

It Could Happen to You
music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

One Morning When I Went to Work
music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Fear of Drinking - Get on With It

The debut Fear of Drinking album released on cassette only in 1993.

music.youtube.com

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treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · Sep 5

Petro-politicians are stuck in the polluting past
Burning gas, oil and coal is polluting land, water and air, heating the planet to critical levels and driving inflation. . davidsuzuki.org/story/petro-...

Petro-politicians are stuck in the polluting past

It appears these politicians are governing for the benefit of a single industry — certainly not for the people they were elected to represent.

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treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations to the good people at Vancouver Folk Song Society on the successful launch of their brand spanking new website tonight. VFSS has been around for 66 years and is still going strong! Big kudos to the tech team who did all the work to launch the new site at vfss.ca

treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · Sep 3

Here's the latest and greatest from Big City HQ. You want sci-fi like tales of misbehaving AI, good news for a good cause and new videos of both recorded and live music? Well so do we - so here they be! timreadman.com/sept-news-20...

SEPTEMBER 2025 UPDATE

SEPTEMBER 2025 UPDATE NEWSLETTER AKA BLOG As the Eventually Brothers song goes, “I don’t know what it is about September / Maybe it’s just something in the air”. A time of new beginnings perhaps as t...

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treadm.bsky.social @treadm.bsky.social · Sep 2

If you know any women who are interested in a career in the trades or if photography as an art form is your thing, then this exhibition is a good place to start. The Tradeswomen Exhibit is running October 18th - November 1st at Gallery 881 in Vancouver.
www.tradeswomenexhibit.com

Tradeswomen Exhibit - Gallery 881

www.tradeswomenexhibit.com

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