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Welcome to the official David Francey website! |
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Order all of David's CDs Online from Laker Music
We would like to thank OAC for their support of Right of Passage |
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Right of Passage - David Francey 2007 2008 JUNO Winner!! Click Here for more on Rights
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Carols for a Christmas Eve - David Francey 2006 Listen to Good Christian Men Rejoice  MP3Recorded with David's good friend Kathryn Briggs, at the Old Town Hall in Almonte, Ontario. Just voice and piano, Carols for a Christmas Eve has a simple elegance. Meant to be sung along to, the songs on this CD are no younger than 118 years old! |
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The First Set - Live From Folk Alley - David Francey 2006 Listen to the intro to Ashtabula MP3 Listen to the song Ashtabula MP3"a lovely digitally preserved moment in the stellar career of one David Francey." Les Siemieniuk, Penguin Eggs Magazine This recording was made on November 11, 2005 at the 39th Annual Kent State Folk Festival, at the Kent Stage in Kent, Ohio. The evening was presented by WKSU (89.7), hosted by Jim Blum and was web cast live as part of FolkAlley.com's 'Live from Folk Alley' online concert series. The First set includes the stories behind the songs. |
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Waking Hour - David Francey 2004 2005 JUNO NOMINEE Listen to Waking Hour MP3"…his best album to date. The songs are strong and the musicianship is exquisite. Just another brilliant CD to add to his collection of great works" Chopper MacKinnon, Canadian Spaces Recorded in Nashville with veteran performers Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch and Fats Kaplin. This collection of original Francey tunes shares the simple recording style of David's first three CDs but adds a driving rhythm provided by these amazing Nashville artists. |
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Skating Rink - David Francey 2003 2004
JUNO WINNER Listen to Skating Rink MP3"["Skating Rink"] … is something of a tour de force, a collection of 13 reflective pieces that contain countless compelling observations, yarns, confessions, hopes, dreams and regrets, all wrung from lives, homes and landscapes that are hauntingly familiar, undeniably Canadian." Greg Quill, the Toronto Star The songs on Skating Rink are drawn from various stages of my life. Most were finally written down at the kitchen table where, if you look out the window, you can see the lights of the skating rink throwing at least a small part of the world into sharp relief. |
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Far End of Summer - David Francey 2001 2002
JUNO WINNER Listen to Paper Boy MP3"With a beautiful simplicity, David Francey's sophomore release [Far End of Summer] is just that, a non-complicated offering of stirring harmonies, acoustic instrumentation and finely crafted lyrics." Martin Kemp, Calgary Record |
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Torn Screen Door - David Francey 1999 Listen to Red-Winged Blackbird MP3"Torn Screen Door, David Francey's debut release, filtered slowly - mostly by word of mouth - out across Canada… It brought with it, instant credibility." Les Siemieniuk, Penguin Eggs "David Francey's Torn Screen Door CD is one of the very best albums I've heard. I've found words and melodies from the album going through my head again and again. Find it and buy it...you won't regret it." Vic Bell, the Nickelodeon, Calgary, Alberta |
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Selected albums David's songs and/or voice appear on: |
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The Del McCoury Band - It's Just the Night McCoury Music www.delmccouryband song - Mill Towns |
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James Keelaghan - Home www.keelaghan.com song - Red-Winged Blackbird |
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The Rankin Family - Backstage Pass song - Sunday Morning www.therankinfamily.com |
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Raylene Rankin - Lamb's in Spring raylene songs - Highwire and Flowers of Saskatchewan |
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The Barra MacNeils - All At
Once listen to thier version of A Thousand Miles at www.barramacneils "David Francey's songs are just so accessible. The refrains are so infectious. A Thousand Miles really features the Barra's distict vocal stylings." |
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Chris and Kellie While - Too Few Songs song - Greenfields www.whileandmatthews Listen at myspace.com/chriswhileandjuliematthews "Two of my favorite singer songwriters in the whole wide world" Beth Nielsen Chapman |
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Debbie Carroll - Simply Beautiful |
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Claire Mann and Aaron Jones - Secret Orders www.clairemann song - Saint's and Sinners |
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Harvey Reid - The Autoharp album www.woodpecker.com song - Flowers of Saskatchewan |
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Harvey Reid & Joyce Andersen - The Great Sad River www.woodpecker.com songs - Fourth of July and Torn Screen Door |
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Lisa Moscatiello and Rosie Shipley - Well Kept Secrets www.lisamoscatiello.com songs-Flowers of Saskatchewan |
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Cooper, Nelson & Early - Return No More coopernelsonearly.com song - Saints And Sinners |
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Lee Murdock - Between Two Worlds www.leemurdock.com song - Mill Towns |
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Spiritwood Music -Listening Point www.spiritwood-music.com song - Red-winged Blackbird |
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These Times We're Living In, A Red House Anthology Various Artists Red House Records song - Fourth Of July |
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Kane's River - Same River Twice www.kanesriver.com song - Wind in the Wires |
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Malinky - The Unseen Hours Listen to their version of Flowers Of Saskatchewan at www.malinky.com (with Steve Byrne lead vocal, Fiona Hunter harmony vocal & David Francey harmony vocals) |
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Colcannon - Journeys www.colcannon.net "A song by a Scotsman living in Canada. David Francey is becoming a major force as a songwriter and performer. The sentiments in this song fit well with Colcannon's view of the world" song - Torn Screen Door |
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Ben Walker - Polar Bear www.benwalker.org "This is essentially a singer / songwriter's album ... the ability of the uilleann pipes to sustain the long note lending a suitable melancholy in the more serious numbers, or a sparkle when brighter topics are addressed, such as David Francey's Red Winged Blackbird." Gordon Potter- Living Tradition song - Red-winged blackbird |
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Tannis Slimmon - LUCKY BLUE www.drog.com/artists/tannis |
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Bruce Guthro - Beautiful Life /www.bruceguthro.com “Beautiful Life”, which has a fantastic flow both musically and textually." "Skopet" magazine David provides backing vocals on Jerusalem |
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Don Bray - Chosen www.donbray.ca "Don Bray's third CD is a warm collection of finely-crafted songs and high spirited performances." Sing Out David provides backing vocals on Saddle Song, Do or Die and Yum |
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Don Bray - Waiting to Arrive www.donbray.ca David provides backing vocals on Our Own Voice and We Don't Die |
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Melwood Cutlery - Campfire www.melwoodcutlery.com Campfire is a sensual mosaic of songs that fit together like a collection of greatest hits, speckled with the performances of special guests, including celebrated singer/songwriters David Francey, Lynn Miles and Jenny Whiteley. The outcome is a warm, winsome anthology — some of the most charismatic music of Melwood's career. David provides backing vocals on Walkerton and Too Stoned |
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Laura Bird - Dreamwalker http://www.laurabird.com/ "a lyrical and sometimes whimsical jaunt from the folksy to the torchy plains of Bird's vocal landscape" David provides backing vocals on Arrow |
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Tears of a Thousand Years - various The idea for this project was born on September 12th – a day on which many of us were asking ourselves what we could do to help. During a CD Release in Toronto, singer/songwriter and firefighter Don Bray sang "Burning in the Streets" – written from the fire fighter’s perspective, and dedicated it to his cohorts in New York CityFollowing Sept. 11th, a call was put out to Canadian folk musicians interested in donating a song to help raise funds in aid of the relief effort, and out of almost fifty entries, twenty songs were chosen. David provides backing vocals on Burning in the Streets |
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Mary Murphy - A Painted Moon www.marymurphy.ca "a well crafted recording...Mary Murphy's appealing Irish lilt influences her contemporary arrangements" Dirty Linen David provides backing vocals on Wandering Aengus and Rose of Allendale |
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The Mizzen Men - Folk Songs & Sea Shanty's www.wayneburkeonline.com song - Torn Screen Door |
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