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Traveling troubadour to perform at TOSH

Stephen Hardy Palmer to bring folk, gospel, roots and more
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Traveling performer Stephen Hardy Palmer will be performing at TOSH for Music on Sunday on Oct. 22. — Courtesy Ron Hadley

A not-to-be-missed, Gatineau-based traveling troubadour who sings about life and simple pleasures will be performing at TOSH for Music on Sunday, Oct. 22.

Stephen Hardy Palmer will enchant and entertain the audience with his superb guitar playing, wide range of songs (including fun sing-alongs), resonant voice, and engaging banter (that always has his audiences in stitches).

Raised on gospel, country and the blues, the old-time influences on a young prairie picker with a love of Doc Watson made Palmer a good fit for psychedelic folk-rock bands. He toured and played support for most of the big-name suspects during the ’60s U.K. invasion. He later worked the Alberta bar scene as a guitarist-for-hire in the rural Alberta bar scene.

Palmer started using his voice only in the ’80s, when he’d picked some West Coast time to study music more formally. But it wasn’t until he returned home to care for his mother that he found personal respite and freedom in becoming a solo performer.

Now based in Gatineau, Que., Palmer travels a circuit around Western Canada and the Northwestern U.S. Forty years as a traveling musician is a lot of road, and Palmer is still playing and still touring.

His performance in Qualicum Beach will take place at TOSH on Sunday, Oct. 22, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Tickets are $18.

For more information, go to www.theoldschoolhouse.org/MOSFall2017.html.

Submitted by Ron

Hadley