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artist Terry Tufts

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bluenorthernmusic@gmail.com

http://www.terrytufts.com

http://music.cbc.ca/#/artists/Terry-Tufts

http://www.youtube.com/user/TerryTufts

613-612-0623 (this is a satellite phone, so be patient with the connectivity and latency of the signal)

BIO


Terry Tufts is a finger-style guitarist living with his wife and daughter off-grid in the bush in North Frontenac, Ontario.

Terry has been playing music for enjoyment since 1963 and as a profession since 1974. His father's job moved the family to Denver, Colorado in the U.S. in the 1960's.  Other postings took him to Ottawa, Ontario, and Rome, Italy. Once he finished high school he returned to Canada to irremovably stick his head into the soundhole of an acoustic guitar.  He suffers from the affliction to this day, coupled with frequent electric outbursts that last long into the night.

In 1974 he moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick, to begin pursuing his own musical career as a singer-songwriter and guitarist, as well as working as a session musician and sideman for a variety of artists including Tom Paxton, Kathryn Briggs, David Francey, Colleen Peterson, Laura Smith, Ian Tamblyn, Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop, The Arrogant Worms, Wayne Rostad, Susan Aglukark, Tracey Brown, and George Fox.


He has 8 albums to his credit, one unreleased, and is currently unsigned.

 

DISCOGRAPHY

''Terry Tufts'' (1987) Snowy River Records, then Blue Northern Music

''Transparent Blue'' (1990) Snowy River Records, then Blue Northern Music

''Down the Eighth and Gone'' (1995)Blue Northern Music

''Two Nights Solo'' (1999) Nutshell Music

''Walk On'' (2001) Borealis

''Two Nights Solo'' (2002) Re-Released by Borealis

''The Better Fight'' (2005) Borealis

COMPILATIONS


"For Lovin' Me", ''Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot'' (2004) Borealis"Six Strings North Of The Border VOL. 2'' (2003) Borealis"Artists For The Algonquin" (2008)
"These Times" (2008) Borealis

BIO OUTLINE

Borealis Recording Artist
TERRY TUFTS
(GUITAR, VOICE)
BORN IN GASLINE, ONTARIO

-Self-taught from 9 years of age.

SPECIAL PERFORMANCES

CBC Radio:
-Musical Friends with Marie Lynne Hammond
-Morningside with Peter Gzowski
-Swinging On A Star with Murray McLauchlan
-Sounds Like Canada with Catherine Gretzinger

CBC TV:
-The Rita McNeil Show
-The True North Concert Yellowknife, Northwest Territory & Whitehorse,Yukon Territory

CTV TV:

-The Dini Petty Show
-Canada AM
-The George Hamilton IV Show
-CCMA Awards
-The Tommy Hunter Show
-4 Tours with Hank Williams:The Show He Never Gave
-Canada Day Celebrations, Parliament Hill, Ottawa
-The Commonwealth Games, Victoria
-Human Rights World Conference, Vienna, Austria
-Davi Suuva Festival- Karesuando, Sweden
-Melbourne Music Festival- Melbourne, Australia
-Governor General Romeo Leblanc's Inauguration - House of Commons
-HRH Elizabeth II's visit to Canada

-Ottawa winner of '97 National Songwriting Contest
-Only two time winner of the Ontario Council of Folk Festival's Songs From The Heart competition ('98 and '01)
-Six album releases

-Four self-financed and self produced albums to credit

-'99 release 2 Nights Solo: Terry Tufts Live @ Rasputin's in top 15 on the Galaxy Network

influences

Space Opera
Thomas & Richard Smothers
Kathryn Briggs
Albert Hofmann
Red Shea
Gordon Lightfoot
Sir Thomas More...except for that racist part.
Javier Santamaria
These Times
Label Borealis
Released July, 2008
These Times
Artists For The Algonquin
Label Independent
Released June, 2008
Artists For The Algonquin
The Better Fight
Label Borealis
Released October, 2005
The Better Fight
Six Strings North Of The Border Vol 2
Label Borealis
Released August, 2003
Six Strings North Of The Border Vol 2
Two Nights Solo
Label Borealis
Released October, 2002
Two Nights Solo
Walk On
Label Borealis
Released February, 2001
Walk On
Down The Eighth And Gone
Label Independent
Released August, 1994
Down The Eighth And Gone
Transparent Blue
Label Independent
Released February, 1990
Transparent Blue
Terry Tufts
Label Independent
Released August, 1987
Terry Tufts

Things to Do To Save The Planet

posted by Terry Tufts   

On view below is the only important opinion I have to express. Whether or not you agree is up to you and keep in mind that it's only an opinion.

 

Establish a lottery for the birth of children based on regional sustainability. In all fairness to a balanced planet, we must strive for ZERO POPULATION GROWTH (ZPG), one child per human MAX. MEANING: a human gets to reproduce itself ONCE in a life time.

 

Kill Your Television.

 

Outlaw electricity not produced by wind, wave, or solar and in connection with that:Disassemble all hydro dams. Rivers and rapids have a legitimate ecological function and it ain't solely to satisfy human endeavour. Hang your head for the loss of Oucheemaupausetqui.

 

Outlaw the manufacture of all non-recyclable and non-biodegradable products.

 

Establish a system of categorization to determine what goods should be manufactured exclusively from recycled materials ie: clothes pegs could be designated as class one - manufacture exclusively from pre-used materials and not from wood.

 

Origin of manufacture is responsible for the retrieval and recycling of packaging for goods created and also responsible for retrieval and recycling of all parts manufactured in the production of said goods for the life of all things manufactured. Take 'dat.

 

Outlaw monoculture and promote diversity in every walk of life, economic or otherwise.

 

Outlaw universal currency monetary systems.

 

Outlaw the representation of value and worth by things that have no value, ie: credit and currency. Trade may be conducted in real goods only and not credit or currency. This one needs to be roughed out more, fer shure.

 

Outlaw the exploration, mining, and use of uranium and uranium based products. If it's that hard to get the stuff up out of the ground, it must be for a legitimate evolution-based reason. It's probably down there in order not to screw things up that are out of contact with it.  Click Here To Connect With www.uranium-network.org/

 

Outlaw petroleum production. If it's that hard to get the stuff up out of the ground, it must be for a legitimate evolution-based reason. It's probably down there in order not to screw things up that are out of contact with it.

 

Outlaw the internal combustion engine.Outlaw construction and maintenance of all non-regionally funded travel ways.

 

Outlaw travel between regions for economic gain with the exception of the arts.

 

Outlaw air travel. We've invented giant aerosol cans spewing havoc into the atmosphere. At any one time there are at least 5000 planes over North America helping with the demise of life. As repellant as the concept may be, whoever was responsible for the attack on the World Trade Centre is the only entity that has actually done something for the environment on a significant scale. While air travel was stopped over the next week, the average North American night time temperature dropped by 4 degrees.

 

Outlaw manufacture of all petroleum based goods.ie: plastic. It doesn't go away. It breaks down into parts per billion, granted, but it is currently on the shoreline of every waterway (creek, stream, river, lake, and ocean) on the face of the planet and has entered the food chain.

 

Outlaw profit.

 

Outlaw large scale agriculture and food gathering for economic gain (including trade) and redirect dependence on local and regional operations. In connection with this: Clean up nitrates from our land and water and prevent them from assisting blue algae blooms now found at river mouths on every ocean.

 

Outlaw the importation of food.

 

Outlaw financial, medical, and food assisted aid to stressed regions of the planet.

 

Outlaw large forestry and redirect dependence on sustainable local and regional operations.

 

Outlaw construction within 300 meters of all lakes and waterways, disassemble all human construction already established, and reestablish growth within that 300-meter zone of indigenous plants.

 

Outlaw sewage disposal by water and waste drainage into all water.

 

Reestablish political boundaries by geographical and/or geological region.

 

Outlaw unlimited competition.

 

Outlaw all threats to the food of non-human species.

 

Outlaw government.

 

Outlaw religion but not spirituality. (Regarding Christianity or most other ancient religions...to quote at least 7 or 8 ancient civilizations as to what it's been, is, and evermore shall be: TIME AND NAVIGATIONAL MARKERS!!!!!The three stars in Orion's Belt (Known for AT LEAST 14,000 years in at least 7 or 8 ancient civilizations as The Three Kings) gradually line up with Sirius (The Brightest Star in The Eastern Night Sky) and by the 22nd of December, the sun (The Son, The Lamb of God, The Glory Of Heaven) appears to exhibit 0 degrees amplitude for three days in the constellation of the Southern Cross (Crucification) until the Kings and The Star line up to point to sunrise on the 25th of December. The sun slowly gains amplitude daily (Resurrection, Ascension from The Cross) until by Spring Equinox (Easter) there are more hours of light than darkness (The Light overtakes the powers of Darkness) and the sun (Son) returns. Now will all you self-righteous zealots please get off my lawn?)

 

Outlaw prejudice, species-based or otherwise.

 

Discourage arrogance and species-ist thought.

 

Outlaw zoos and domestication of non-human animals except by willing participants. Again, this has to be thought out by someone more adept than yours truly. What would a person do with injured animals and species at risk? Different strokes for different situations I guess.

 

Begin an intense program of locating and thoroughly cleaning all dumps and landfill sites and purifying the soil, (if we can find the money to send a robot to Mars, we can find the money and intellectual resources to do this) and initiate prosecutions to the full extent of the law.

 

Pass legislation to create laws in order to accommodate the above. None responsible shall escape penalization.

 

Re-institute the death penalty for crimes against the environment.  Another one that has to be roughed out, fer shure.

 

Outlaw science for money.

 

This thought is CANADA SPECIFIC: require that all of the eligible population do periodic military service with extensive training.  Bring home all of our military and engage them in protective and restorative measures regarding our water. (Line 'em up along our borders and stop foreign interests from grabbing our water.  If you think it's cheeky what they did in order to procure oil licensing, think of what they'll do when they want our water.)

 

Plant as many indigenous hardwood trees in a non-monocultural manner as possible…NOW.

 

It's just a thought. Don't forget you have to be willing to bend to accommodate each situation.

posted by Terry Tufts   

Video

Circle Of Trees 4:11

Circle Of Trees

Solo performance on a Beneteau 7 string.

In The Eleventh Hour 4:55

In The Eleventh Hour

David Binder - Electric Guitar Ian Clyne - Keys Tom McMahon - Bass T. Bruce Wittet - Drums

If I Were The King 3:49

If I Were The King

Solo performance on a '63 Gibson B45-12.

Marylou In Burgundy 4:25

Marylou In Burgundy

Solo performance on a '95 Martin J-40

Revelstoke 5:24

Revelstoke

David Binder - Electric Guita Ian Clyne - Key Tom McMahon - Bas T. Bruce Wittet

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