STAN ROGERS

Canadian national folk hero and an international folk legend, Stan Rogers inspired the Celtic music renaissance in North America. Pete Seeger calledStan Rogers one of the most talented young singers and songwriters in North America a few months before Stan died in an airplane crash in 1983. When CBC Morningside asked listeners to nominate a song as the second national anthem of Canada, the winner was Stan Rogers’ classic Northwest Passage. Rogers performed his Maritime-style music on the folk circuit from Cape Breton to San Francisco, from the Arctic Circle to the Rio Grande River. This is the story of his life and music, complete with *