Acrpost: A Project of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres

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Roy Forbes is one of Canada’s best loved songwriters and performing artists. He’s been at it for over 50 years, and has picked up some tokens of appreciation from his peers along the way. There is a street named after him in his hometown of Dawson Creek in Northern B.C. and a star on Vancouver’s Granville Street where the names of the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame members are enshrined. Over the years, Roy has had a couple of JUNO nominations and has a handful of Western Canadian Music Awards on his shelf. In 2021, he received a nomination for “Producer of the Year” by the Canadian Folk Music Awards for his work on his current album, “Edge of Blue”. Mainly, and more importantly, Roy is firmly etched in the minds of thousands, tens of thousands in fact, of music lovers acro... more...