The Mariposa Folk Festival

Book will be promoted through the Mariposa festival’s social media and website Features interviews with long-time festival organizers and more, including such artists as Ken Whiteley, Murray McLauchlan, and Gordon Lightfoot Traces the ups and downs in the festival’s fortunes, and the social changes that came along with them. Key events include the founding and first festival, the third year “riot” in Orillia, the 1972 festival as a snapshot of that era on the Island, the festival’s near-death experience in the early eighties, and its return to Orillia in 2000 for its fiftieth anniversary Author is a journalist and has worked with the festival for over fifteen years