Jon Bartlett

My singing history begins with being a choirboy in a high Anglican church, followed shortly thereafter by hearing singers on the Aldermaston to London anti-bomb marches of the early sixties. The songs I learned there, mostly Scottish parodies of American folk tunes, drew me to British folk clubs, my local being the Stanford in Brighton. The first song I ever led there was “Solidarity Forever!”. I found the Vancouver Folk Song Society within weeks of emigrating to Canada in 1968, and I’ve been a member ever since. It was through the Folk that I met and began to work with Phil Thomas, on his collection of BC songs, and then on his book, Songs of the Pacific Northwest.