CONTACT:
bluenorthernmusic@gmail.com
613-612-0623
Terry Tufts is a finger-style guitarist living with his wife and daughter off-grid in the bush in North Frontenac, Ontario.
Terry has been playing music for enjoyment since 1963 and as a profession since 1974. His father's job moved the family to Denver, Colorado in the U.S. in the 1960's. Other postings took him to Ottawa, Ontario, and Rome, Italy. Once he finished high school he returned to Canada to irremovably stick his head into the soundhole of an acoustic guitar. He suffers from the affliction to this day, coupled with frequent electric outbursts that last long into the night.
In 1974 he moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick, to begin 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 including Tom Paxton, Kathryn Briggs, David Francey, Colleen Peterson, Laura Smith, Laura Bird, Ian Tamblyn, Lynn Miles, Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop, The Arrogant Worms, Wayne Rostad, Susan Aglukark, Tracey Brown, and George Fox.
Terry Tufts is the only two time winner of the Ontario Council of Folk Festivals' SONG FROM THE HEART competition, sharing the award in 1998 and winning in 2001.
He has 7 albums to his credit, one unreleased.
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
COMPILATIONS
"For Lovin' Me", ''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
LIVE PERFORMANCE
-4 Tours with Hank Williams:The Show He Never Gave
-Canada Day Celebrations, Parliament Hill, Ottawa
-The Commonwealth Games, Victoria, B.C.
-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
AWARDS
-Ottawa winner of '97 National Songwriting Contest
-Only 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
INFLUENCES
Space Opera
Thomas & Richard Smothers
Kathryn Briggs
Beth Tufts
Albert Hofmann
Red Shea
Gordon Lightfoot
Sir Thomas More...except for that racist part
and Javier Santamaria
