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Terry Tufts
Biography
" Have guitar. Will travel."
William Terence Tufts is a finger-style guitarist living off-grid with his wife and collaborator (pianist Kathryn Briggs) and daughter (singer/guitarist/pianist Beth Tufts) in the bush in North Frontenac, Ontario.
Terry has been playing music professionally since 1974. His father's job with the Canadian Government moved the family to Denver at a time when the folk and rock music genres were forming opinion everywhere. Other postings that influenced him musically took him to Ottawa, ON, and Rome, Italy. Upon returning to Canada to complete high school he began pursuing his own musical career as a singer-songwriter and guitarist, as well as working as a session musician and sideman for a variety of artists. (Tom Paxton, Kathryn Briggs, David Francey, Colleen Peterson, Laura Smith, Laura Bird, Ian Tamblyn, Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop, Charlie Sohmer, The Arrogant Worms, Wayne Rostad, Susan Aglukark, Tracey Brown, and George Fox.)
He plays mandolin, mandriola, banjo, cittern, and guitar - primarily guitar (for fun since 1958 and professionally since 1974.)
He has 7 solo albums to his credit, is part of 16 different compilation albums, plus a collection of instrumental music and a seasonal album performed and written with Kathryn Briggs as part of their duo K.E.W.T. (standing for Kathryn Elizabeth and William Terence), and has, as part of THE ALGONQUIN ENSEMBLE (a sextet consisting of Kathryn, John - Double Bass, Lisa Moody - Viola, Laura Nerenberg - Violin, Margaret Tobolowska - Cello, and Terry on various fretted instruments) released a collection of original music inspired by the canvases of Tom Thomson. Their sold out premiere performance was July 9th, 2017 in Kleinburg, Ontario at The McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
TERRY TUFTS blends a well-traveled personal history into music without boundaries.
DISCOGRAPHY
''Terry Tufts'' (1987) Snowy River Records, then Blue Northern Music
''Transparent Blue'' (1990) Snowy River Records, then Blue Northern Music
''Down the Eighth and Gone'' (1995)Blue Northern Music
''Two Nights Solo'' (1999) Nutshell Music
''Walk On'' (2001) Borealis
''Two Nights Solo'' (2002) Re-Released by Borealis
''The Better Fight'' (2005) Borealis
WITH K.E.W.T.
''Mother Lode'' (2014) Blue Northern Records
''Winter Light'' (2015) Blue Northern Records
COMPILATIONS
* "Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot" (2004)Borealis
* "Six Strings North Of The Border VOL. 2" (2003) Borealis
* "Artists For The Algonquin" (2008)
"These Times" (2008) Borealis
BIO OUTLINE
Borealis Recording Artist
TERRY TUFTS (GUITAR, VOICE)
BORN IN GASLINE, ONTARIO
-Self-taught from 9 years of age.
SPECIAL PERFORMANCES
CBC Radio:
-Musical Friends with Marie Lynne Hammond
-Morningside with Peter Gzowski
-Swinging On A Star with Murray McLauchlan
-Sounds Like Canada with Catherine Gretzinger
CBC TV:
-The Rita McNeil Show
-The True North Concert Yellowknife, Northwest Territory & Whitehorse,Yukon Territory
CTV TV:
-The Dini Petty Show
-Canada AM
-The George Hamilton IV Show
-CCMA Awards
-The Tommy Hunter Show
-4 Tours with Hank Williams:The Show He Never Gave
-Canada Day Celebrations, Parliament Hill, Ottawa
-The Commonwealth Games, Victoria
-Human Rights World Conference, Vienna, Austria
-Davi Suuva Festival- Karesuando, Sweden
-Melbourne Music Festival- Melbourne, Australia
-Governor General Romeo Leblanc's Inauguration - House of Commons
-HRH Elizabeth II's visit to Canada
-Ottawa winner of '97 National Songwriting Contest
-Two time winner of the Ontario Council of Folk Festival's Songs From The Heart competition ('98 and '01)
-Six album releases
-Four self-financed and self produced albums to credit
-'99 release (2 Nights Solo: Terry Tufts Live @ Rasputin's) in the year's top 15 on the Galaxy Network
Tracks
90 tracks
Niagara b/w Niagara (1987)
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Niagara
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Niagara
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Burlington Bay
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Niagara
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Back Porch Symphony
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You Never Knew
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Stand 'Neath My Window
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I Gave It All To You
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Dancehall Serenade
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Can't Hide From Love
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I Remember You
Transparent Blue (1990)
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Stand 'Neath My Window
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The Bloom Falls
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Off The Rose
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Candy Calls For Water
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Where Do I Go?
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Azelie
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Don't Think I Want Your Lovin'
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Hangin' Roses From Her Door
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Heart of the Beholder
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Holdin' On
Down the Eighth and Gone (1995)
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Flag Station Fireball
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Little Miss Demeanor
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Pledge
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Perish The Thought
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Tearin' Up The Tundra
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Harder Than Diamonds To Hold
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Not Another Love Song
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Free Life
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Hello Lisa
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Carmanah
Walk On (2001)
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Many Miles Away From You
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Nobody Knows This But Me
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Look To Yourself For Your Heaven
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In the Arms of Margaret Ann
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Sweet Little Mystery
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In The Eleventh Hour
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One
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Swing Her About
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My Father Would Say
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Deep Purple
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Tearin' Up The Tundra
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Revelstoke
The Better Fight (2005)
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Hey, Jerusha
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Dirty Little War
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The Better Fight
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Pursuit to My Nature
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Awake Ye Drowsie Sleeper
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Black Velvet Elvis
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That Was You. This Was Me.
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Embracing the Addiction
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Fly Away
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Idyll
Music Museum #1 (2012)
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You Said
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Drawn to Love
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Riverside
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Marylou in Burgundy
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In the Eleventh Hour
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So High On You
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October Gold
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Only Half-Way Home
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Revelstoke
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Sweet
Music Museum #2 (2012)
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