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00:00Good luck to all of you.
00:02You are amazing.
00:04You are amazing.
00:06Yes you are.
00:12What?
00:16So do you write music?
00:18Of course.
00:20And I just saw you performing.
00:22Tell me a little bit about how you
00:24write your music.
00:27It's done by inspiration.
00:29So I don't have any
00:31contrite songs usually that I
00:33just sit down and say, hey, I'm going to write me a song
00:35about. Nah, it just
00:37comes from inspiration, sometimes in
00:39dreams and other ways. So that's the main
00:41way that I write songs.
00:43You know, you have to be inspired.
00:53Tell me a little bit about your company.
00:55Well,
00:57I married my
00:59wife after I did
01:01an acting degree
01:03up at the University of Victoria
01:05in British Columbia.
01:07She was studying
01:09there too and
01:11we went up to her community,
01:13which is the Guasla-Nahuatl Nation
01:15up at the top of Vancouver Island.
01:17And her people are just rife with beautiful
01:19stories and mythology and songs
01:21and a lot of really important language
01:23revitalization because
01:25colonization really
01:27ran amok on
01:29their people and devastated a lot
01:31of their practices and traditions and
01:33a lot of people have been holding on tight to them
01:35and reinstilling them in the youth.
01:37So a lot of elders
01:39asked me to help tell the stories
01:41and trusted me with the stories and
01:43I started making films to try to help preserve
01:45some of those things and to build them up and
01:47amplify them.
01:49And one story led to another, led to another
01:51and then I started traveling
01:53all over the province helping other people
01:55in other nations do the same thing
01:57and before you know it I just, you know,
01:59I wasn't teaching anymore and I was doing film work
02:01full time. So I dedicate
02:03most of my talents to
02:05indigenous content up
02:07up north in Canada there
02:09and then some
02:11good mostly African-American
02:13content here to the blues down here.
02:15Nice. Yeah. Thanks for being
02:17on my show. Oh hey, well there we go.
02:19World class. I've been called the songbird
02:21of a generation but
02:23It's true.
02:25It's true. I'm a videographer
02:27I have Germaine Campbell
02:29videography and in 2018
02:31I was doing a little
02:33barter with Mary, the
02:35organizer here and she said if I make some
02:37films and capture the essence of this
02:39wonderful phenomenon that
02:41I could get free admission
02:43here and come hang out and we've been doing it
02:45ever since and I brought my whole family
02:47in. Hello kids and we'll be coming back
02:49as long as they let us. And this year
02:51this year you showed
02:53a video before that will probably be released
02:55will be released soon of a video
02:57of just what this place is about
02:59capturing all the magic and stuff and before
03:01that we thought maybe this was just a scam
03:03this has been a scam for, you know, six
03:05seven years just to get, just to come here but
03:07no, he proved it. He proved it.
03:09Not even any batteries
03:11in the camera.
03:13Hold on a second, a little closer here.
03:15It's a great scheme.
03:17I respect it.
03:19I respect it.
03:21We got to watch it in the participants concert which is on Thursday
03:23night when all the participants get to come up and
03:25perform but we started with his filming, it was like
03:27a little premiere, it was a special thing
03:29for all of us to see
03:31it showed so eloquently
03:33what this place is and all the capturing the power
03:35and the humor and the fun
03:37and the family and the music and
03:39the spirituality
03:41all of it, you captured it all there, it's really
03:43really great.
03:45And I'm in it.
03:49And what's your film called?
03:51Well, I don't know
03:53what I, what will it
03:55be called?
03:57Fort Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival.
03:59Exactly, that's what I'll call it, Fort Townsend Acoustic Blues
04:01Festival and
04:03nothing too creative but
04:05it does the job, that's what
04:07it's about. It's about 50 minutes long
04:09and I'll make a couple
04:11quick little cuts and then
04:13release it to the public, let it out to the world.
04:15And get you excited for the next year.
04:17I mean, that's the cool thing is
04:19it's like, it is kind of like, you're like, oh I can't
04:21believe it's over but then you're already thinking
04:23like, okay but it does happen.
04:25Well, that's a cherry on top.
04:27It's a consolation.
04:29It was like, Tuesday, I was like, ah shit, it's only Tuesday.
04:31Yeah, that's always, yeah, don't let it fool ya.
04:33What the fuck?
04:35Don't let Tuesdays fool ya.
04:37Hey, thanks a lot.
04:39That was fun.
04:41Just chatting.
04:43That's right. Who knows what we'll do with it
04:45but, you know, it's in the pocket.
04:47That's the most important part is
04:49to get it recorded, right?