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Playford Tunes (trad.)
(Jenny Pluck Pears/Half Hannikin)
I met my friend Steve Starchev (R.I.P.) when we were both technicians at CBC Radio. We had a mutual passion for old and unusual music and I convinced him that maybe he might think about performing in public. After one thing and another, he found his instrument of choice in the hurdy-hurdy. These tunes come from the English 'Playford Dance Collection' from 1650.
Steve Starchev: hurdy-gurdy, guitar

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Laurence Stevenson Brighton, Ontario

Having been born in Scotland and moved to Canada in my high school years, my life has followed parallel (but musically related) paths.
A career in radio, firstly as a radio news tech then a sound effects guy to creator of the CBC Radio Experimental Audio Room and finally as an international award winning radio producer for the popular show, Outfront, has been tracked alongside a life as a fiddler.
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