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

Event Description

For over 50 years Roy Forbes has been a mainstay at festivals and folk clubs across this land. The B.C. native burst onto the scene during a renaissance period of Canadian roots music and in quick succession, the singer-songwriter released a series of recordings under the name Bim. Those recordings earned him loyal audiences, thanks to a deep well of songs that included “Right After My Heart”, “Fly Back North”, “Tender Lullaby”, “Farmer Needs to the Rain”, “Waitin’ for You Mama”, and “Shell of a Life”. That impressive foundation was added to with another string of recordings that saw him shed Bim for Roy. A series of releases as Roy Forbes found the songbook expanding via albums like Crazy Old Moon and The Human Kind. Numerous artists, ranging from the great we... more...