Ottawa Folk History

This website has been active since 2018 in support of “A History of the Ottawa Folk Festival (1994-2012)“, published in October 2018.

Joyce MacPhee and I had a great time making it. She had kept a yearly summary of the people involved and the artists performing. At the same time, the OFF Photo Crew worked diligently to document the festival. We enjoyed going through the thousands of images to find the 7 – 20 images for each year and add them to her notes.

The book was well-received locally and had a very modest success around the world (about five copies a year!). It continues to be available through IngramSpark via their print-on-demand service. Order by title at your local bookstore.

There is an Index available here for download with sections for “Ottawa Folk” (organizers, emcees, festival supporters and kindred organizations), “Artists” (musicians and other performing artists and groups) and “Workshops” (there were about 600 conceived and named over the years!).

But enough of history. The website will close in August 2024 when the domain name registration comes up. At about $15/year with no real traffic and not much input from me, its time has come.

Thank you to all who have talked with me about the book over the years. It was a great project!

Jake Morrison
June 2024

p.s. Notice that the website no longer has the depth of content it once had. I have had to move web hosts and the site wasn’t worth the cost of migration. I’ve added a few historic posts below but most of the content won’t be added here. Check out The Wayback Machine for old content.

The 44 page index for A History of the Ottawa Folk Festival (1994-2012) is now available as a PDF on this website. Printed copies will be available for $10 at the book launch and $12 after that.

Download: Index of A History of the Ottawa Folk Festival (1994-2012)

We will be publishing the book on approximately October 20^th, 2018. We are taking pre-orders until then through OttawaFolkHistory.org and the email: orders@ OttawaFolkHistory.org.

We have printed a  preliminary copy – very similar to the final copy but as yet unfinished. If you would like to see it please contact us. The main thing that is missing from this copy (other than a whole whack of images – see the blank spaces?) is the Index. We will be indexing people – performers and festival folk – at least. Work has started and the method is under control.

We will be producing the book through a print on demand system so
YOU MAY PERSONALIZE YOUR COPY!

Personalization will be done on one page and can include one image and text that fits.

If you are interested in pre-ordering please write us a note.

Pricing

The basic book is $25/copy.

If you would like to have a single personalization page added, the cost is $30 for the first book and $27 for each copy after with the exact same content. Note that the personalized page is inserted right inside the cover and breaks up the program guide display.

Pre-ordering

We will make the print order in late October based on pre-orders.

In order to pre-order your copy we will need from you – before October 15^th –

1. Your name, email, phone number and number of copies, either basic or personalized.
2. A deposit of $10 per basic book and $15 per personalized book
3. For each personalization give us the content. It would be best if you laid it out on a page and we would try to duplicate that but we will do the layout if you don’t. In any case include the image as a separate file. It must have enough pixels to print the size you want at 300 pixels / inch. (a 2 inch printed image must have 600 pixels).

If you’re interested please contact us.

We hope to hear from you! orders@ottawafolkhistory.org.dev.cc

Joyce MacPhee
Jake Morrison (C: 613-286-1564)