biographical info
To hear Lindy Vopnfjord tell it, while his father drove the folk-singing family from gig to gig, Lindy, then six years old, and his nine year old brother plus two cousins, lay freezing in the back of their parent’s converted yellow school bus while his mom and dad sat in heated comfort in the front, a plastic sheet keeping the warmth from seeping back to the teeth-chattering children, the frozen Manitoba landscape vaguely visible through the frosted window panes. The truth is, the engaging Lindy can spin a hell of a tall tale. And yet his upbringing, much of it spent singing Icelandic folk songs and 60’s protest anthems with his parents and cousins in The Hekla Singers, is the kind of life story that you just can’t make up. Lindy’s musical pedigree is a biographer’s dream come true. He was taught by his father to play the guitar at age two and made his public premier at the age of four, singing a duet with his dad at the Icelandic Festival in his home town of Gimli, Manitoba. Later in his young career he and his family performed in front of Pierre Trudeau, Lindy fondly recalling how he obtained the PM’s autograph afterwards. From those early days through to present day, a time that included the family eventually moving to Victoria with Lindy finally ending up in Toronto, his musical maturation has grown exponentially, moving him past songs of peace and atomic bombs to the more life experiential themes of love, betrayal, and the beauty that comes from loss.