Roy Forbes is one of Canada’s best loved songwriters and performing artists. He’s been at it for over fifty years now and has picked up some tokens of appreciation from his peers along the way. There is a street named after him in his hometown of Dawson Creek in Northern B.C. and a star on Vancouver’s Granville Street where the names of the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame members are enshrined. Over the years, Roy has had a couple of Juno nominations and has a handful of WCMA awards on his shelf. In 2021, he received a CFMA ‘Producer of the Year’ nomination for his work on his current album, Edge of Blue.
Mainly, and more importantly, Roy is firmly etched in the minds of tens of thousands of music lovers across the country. Some remember a skinny kid who went under the name of Bim, others the more mature man who reclaimed his ‘real’ name. Some got to know him at festivals from Faro in the Yukon to Lunenburg in Nova Scotia, as Roy trod the boards from the seventies to a stellar finale performancefinale performance at the fortieth anniversary edition of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival.
The last few years have been a challenge. Having dealt with poor vision all his life, Roy was blinded in an accident in 2015. He may have lost his sight but not his vision. Roy adapted to his new reality relatively quickly, returning to touring, performing, and recording, and all the other things he does so well. As Roy began getting used to a life without sight, new songs began to emerge. Ten of those songs became the core of his latest recording, Edge of Blue, his 11th solo effort..
www.roguefolk.bc.ca
Friday, October 25 |
8pm (doors open at 7pm)
Mel Lehan Hall at St. James | 3214 West 10th Avenue
Tickets: Available online at
https://www.roguefolk.bc.ca/concerts/ev24102520