Gingerfoot

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Origin: Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦
Biography:

Throughout the 1960’s and 70’s, Tim played in various local bands in Montreal and Toronto. During Expo ’67 in Montreal, Tim’s band (‘The Woolton Village Fete’, which was named after the village fair in England where John Lennon and Paul McCartney met) had a contract to play for staff parties every other Saturday night. The parties would go from 8 o’clock at night to the 3AM the next morning. After the first four or five sets when the band had exhausted their repertoire, they would make up songs for the next several hours. Frequently they would get requests for a song they’d made up the week before and have to improvise all over again.

Tim moved back to Toronto in 1971 and began playing with several local bands including ‘Gingerfoot’ and ‘Sunshine River’. He released records and toured throughout Southern Ontario in the mid seventies and in 1979 Tim formed ARIEL RECORDS. With Ariel, Tim has played with and produced several bands including ‘Foxrun Band’, ‘Darkstar’, ‘The Play’, ‘Sierra Blue’, ‘Chimera’, and ‘Three Stand Out’ (which was released on AXE RECORDS).

In 1985, Tim started his own recording studio – TEMPEST SOUND and at the same time he began work on instrumental recordings for several small films. Out of these projects came Tim’s first instrumental release ‘Windy Nights’ by ‘The Fly By Night Orchestra’. With the help of Paul Richards and CHAY-FM ‘Windy Nights’ became popular throughout Canada and the United States and continues to receive substantial airplay today. With the success of ‘Windy Nights’, Tim formed STUFFED RECORDS with Eleanor Wright in 1989. Their first CD release in 1991 was the ‘Stuffed Records Sampler Volume 1’ and along with tracks from ‘The Fly By Night Orchestra’, the CD also included the instrumental acts ‘The PS Band’, ‘Panorama’, and ‘Blue Guitar’.