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David's new cd from Laker Music is now available. You can order it HERE."Passionate and authentic, David Francey brings his superb songs to life in
spellbinding style."
Chris White
Artistic Director
Ottawa Folk Festival 
"David Francey gave an absolutely stunning performance at this year's Blue Skies Music Festival. He is a brilliant writer and a passionate singer who completely captivated all who heard him. His songs are beautifully crafted, highly original and superbly played. I have no doubt David will be an important voice in Canadian music in a very short time."
Al Rankin,
Artistic Director
Blue Skies Music Festival 
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David Francey was born in 1954 in Ayrshire, Scotland, where as a paper boy he got his first taste of the working life. He learned to read at an early age, and by age eight was devouring the newspapers he delivered. This helped establish his interest in politics and world events while developing the social conscience that forms the backdrop of his songs.
He was twelve when his family immigrated to Toronto. He says he can trace his love of the land, the history, and the people of his adopted country to weekend family drives exploring southern Ontario. Music played a large part in these family outings. They sang traditional Scottish tunes as they drove through the Canadian countryside. Dad and sister Muriel sang melody, while mother and David sang harmonies.
No waves of grain
will claim the fallen
Just the channel
cold and grey as steel
With no return to
the rolling prairies
To a silent cross
in a lonely field
From Flowers of Saskatchewan,
� David Francey
His attachment to Canada grew with travel. He hitched across the country three times, then thumbed up to the Yukon. This attachment surfaces in his songs of rail lines, farms, and the St. Lawrence Seaway. He grew to understand people while working in Toronto train yards, the Yukon bush, and as a carpenter in the Eastern Townships. These experiences colour his new CD, Torn Screen Door, with songs like Hard Steel Mill, Gypsy Boys, and Working Poor.
I push a shovel on
a building site
And I'm already
working when it breaks daylight
If I don't keep
moving, man, I'll freeze for sure
I'm just a common
example of the working poor.
From Working Poor
� David Francey
And here we stand
while life rushes past
Between the first
breath and the last
And here we stand
between East and West
And here we stand
between birth and death
From Saints and Sinners
� David Francey
David lives with his wife, the artist Beth Girdler, and their children -- Amy, Julia, and Colin -- in Ayer's Cliff, a small southern Quebec town that is a crossroads of francophone, anglophone, and American cultures. When not writing and performing his songs he works as a carpenter. |
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DAVID FRANCEY
In Concert
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