One more thing, and that has to do with the present. There's been a big upswing in the live Montreal folk scene in the past five years and a lot of the credit has to go to Matt and Rebecca Large from Hello Darlin' Productions who put on shows at a bunch of different clubs and halls.

And to Mike Regenstreif's Folk Roots/Folk Branches radio show on CKUT. It was a big blow to the Montreal folk scene when Mike stopped doing the weekly show. His short features during the replacement show Folk Directions are great but are not on often enough