David Essig

David Essig (born December 2, 1945 in Frederick, Maryland)[1] is a Canadian singer-songwriter, producer and record label owner.

History

David Essig was born in Frederick, Maryland, in 1945. In 1971, he emigrated to Canada, and became a Canadian citizen in 1978.[1] He was first introduced to Canadian audiences as a performer at the 1971 Mariposa Folk Festival.[2] He developed a particular popularity in Italy, where he has toured over twenty times.[3] In 1974, he established one of Canada's first musician-owned and operated record labels, Woodshed Records.[1] A number of the label's releases were distributed by Posterity Records, owned by Harvey Glatt, under the Posterity-Woodshed label.[4] The label was revived as "New Woodshed" in 1984.[1] Records produced by Essig include releases by Willie P. Bennett, Cathy Fink and Duck Donald, Dixie Flyers, Fred Eaglesmith and Jackie Washington.[1]

gollark: My script just sets it to `http://example.com`.
gollark: https://dragcave.net/image/code seems to work. I think it's the refer(r)er header being needed.
gollark: I.e. dependent on the last year of NDing, not the most recent turns or whatever.
gollark: I think those are larger-scale.
gollark: Also, on the turn rate thing being mentioned, while I doubt TJ09 is manually twiddling values when people get turns, there may be for some strange reason some automatic system to make turns less likely after lots have happened.

References
  1. Biography of David Essig; Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
  2. CBC Music, Biography of David Essig Archived 2016-03-01 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
  3. Portrait of David Essig Archived 2014-02-03 at the Wayback Machine; Winterfolk. Retrieved 2014-01-30.
  4. Woodshed Records releases; rateyourmusic. Retrieved 2014-01-21.



This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.