It is great to read all this stuff about Malvina. I, myself am on a quest to keep her material and her memory alive, as I run into more and more people who don't know anything about her. Some know "Little Boxes" but that is too small a sample of what she did.

I wanted to stage a big tribute concert in 1998 (20 years after she died) but didn't get it together. Then I thought about 2000 (100 years after she was born) but had just moved from Vancouver to Ottawa and couldn't pull something like that off. Now I wonder if anyone would come. So my current strategy is to try to get into some folk festivals with a tribute workshop. Gradually I will bring her to the awareness of the under-fifties, and build the audience for a really big show.

She has inspired me for thirty-five years and I have always sung, but have not followed a career path with my music. So her legacy is increasingly relevant to me as I have become determined to launch a music career in my old age. I am now fifty, and whenever I feel like it won't be possible to break into the business at this age, I think about her.

My favourite is "No Hole In My Head," the first truly feminist song in my repertoire, and another I just love and have never heard anyone sing (I learned it from the book) is "Green Shadows."

If I ever get to record a CD I will sing it.

Maura