Driftwood Trail
Donation protected
15 000 kilometers later, The Driftwood Trail is reaching out to the public to participate in the funding for the continuation of their projects: they are very eager to share the immense content of talent they have gathered in their field recordings throughout their 2020 journey!
Summary:::
From June to November 2020, Enora, Daniel and Keast travelled through Canada documenting musicians and luthiers from coast to coast, in outdoor locations, following a unique trail of word of mouth recommendations.
The team is currently working full-time on editing videos and short documentaries to highlight and promote the hundreds of artists they met on their journey.
While retiring for the winter in the friendly cove of Nova Scotia to do this work, they are also planning their 2021 season back on the road for more treasures and adventures.
Short and full-length documentaries are to come soon, as well as an elaborate and accessible online platform showcasing all the musicians met along the Trail.
We invite you to consult our website for more details, or to email us directly with feedback and inquiries!
driftwoodproductions.ca
[email redacted]
The Project:
The Driftwood Trail aims to promote musicians and instrument makers from coast to coast as well as people who embody the ideals of wholesome community-based lifestyles.
This call for funding is meant to allow us to establish a strong base of both visual and audio footage to be gathered in the form of short documentaries. We are also recording unique musical performances along the way and releasing them on online platforms (facebook, instagram and youtube).
We embarked on this journey to help promote musicians and allow them to perform in a time when they do not have much opportunity to do so. The project has since expanded into not only a full time activity, but also a full time interest and passion. It organically evolved into a research that extends further than folk music, tying together people, music and land.
Our process often brings us to get involved with people we meet, playing music together, writing and recording songs, shooting short fiction movies, or even helping build things such as instruments, sheds, roofs, etc. This way of working allows genuine and intimate interactions with people as well as unique experiences and creations along the way. We hope the Trail will allow others to discover the grandiose variety of characters and musicians that live creatively and wholesomely in all folds and corners of the great Canadian landscape.
For many reasons, all performances of the Driftwood Trail have been and will be shot in outdoor locations. First to ensure a safe space between the performers and the recording team. Second because the Trail seeks artists outside of the context of recording studios. We fish for raw performances, mainly acoustic although not exclusively (extensions cords trailing out of a van parked on the ocean can be very fun too.)
As to be able to capture high quality sound recordings and film footage, we have started to collect better gear. Our goal is to acquire professional quality gear while remaining light and agile (some of the most exciting shoot locations require a certain amount of hiking and often improvisational setups in the wild.)
The funds will supply help for immediate use in the project:
- to purchase better quality audiovisual gear and digital supplies for our upcoming season 2021;
- to pay collaborating editors, sound mixers and video artists;
- the cost of related art projects, such as analog film and their development, art materials, etc.
The Driftwood Team: Daniel Connolly, Enora Sanschagrin and Keast Mutter.
Check out our website here: Driftwood Website
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More on The Driftwood Trail:
“On June 4th, 2020, two musicians and filmmakers, Daniel and Enora, picked up a large piece of driftwood from Margaree Harbour in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and tied it to the roof of their vehicle. Equipped with guitars, note pads, cameras and sound gear, the two drifters began their journey to film musical performances, stories and personalities across the country: The Driftwood Trail.
The trail began on Peter Leblanc’s ‘Front Porch Farm’ in Cape Breton Island. Peter has been hosting music gatherings for years under the name of ‘Margaree Harvest Fest’ and collects records and phone numbers of musicians across the country. The recommendations from his contact list traced the first steps of the Driftwood Trail. Thus the treasure hunt begins: one musician leads to another: “Oh if you go through there you have to meet this one too! She’s a character! He’s a ripper!”
The Driftwood Trail embarks on a country-wide musical adventure, tracing an alternative path through the Canadian Landscape of Folk. Working its way exclusively through word of mouth, the Trail travels from the East to the West coast by following musicians’ recommendations, stopping along the way by luthiers, organic farms and other resettling movements in the country. As the conversation threads between people’s stories, experiences, ideas and ideals, it weaves an organic mosaic of Canadian musicians and communities, tied together by the question of today’s traditional music and its relationship with the land.
The structure is deliberately fluid, recording the trail as it unravels from Peter Leblanc’s genesis list. From this original thread is weaved a mosaic of communities and musicians across the country. Performances, jam sessions, interviews and informal conversations create a net of musical and ideological ties that encapsulate the diversity of the Canadian landscape. Conversations with musicians, farmers and luthiers lead to questions which are then asked to other artists along the way, and so on. The trail unwinds in many directions at once, creating a rhizomatic map of connections through the country.
The Driftwood Trail focuses on the people, their land, their instruments, their ideas, their stories. It unravels organically through inspiring encounters, favouring the free-rolling characters of the backwoods of the country and the lifestyles that embody a return to community living, small-scale farming and the ecology of hand to hand relationships.”
Summary:::
From June to November 2020, Enora, Daniel and Keast travelled through Canada documenting musicians and luthiers from coast to coast, in outdoor locations, following a unique trail of word of mouth recommendations.
The team is currently working full-time on editing videos and short documentaries to highlight and promote the hundreds of artists they met on their journey.
While retiring for the winter in the friendly cove of Nova Scotia to do this work, they are also planning their 2021 season back on the road for more treasures and adventures.
Short and full-length documentaries are to come soon, as well as an elaborate and accessible online platform showcasing all the musicians met along the Trail.
We invite you to consult our website for more details, or to email us directly with feedback and inquiries!
driftwoodproductions.ca
[email redacted]
The Project:
The Driftwood Trail aims to promote musicians and instrument makers from coast to coast as well as people who embody the ideals of wholesome community-based lifestyles.
This call for funding is meant to allow us to establish a strong base of both visual and audio footage to be gathered in the form of short documentaries. We are also recording unique musical performances along the way and releasing them on online platforms (facebook, instagram and youtube).
We embarked on this journey to help promote musicians and allow them to perform in a time when they do not have much opportunity to do so. The project has since expanded into not only a full time activity, but also a full time interest and passion. It organically evolved into a research that extends further than folk music, tying together people, music and land.
Our process often brings us to get involved with people we meet, playing music together, writing and recording songs, shooting short fiction movies, or even helping build things such as instruments, sheds, roofs, etc. This way of working allows genuine and intimate interactions with people as well as unique experiences and creations along the way. We hope the Trail will allow others to discover the grandiose variety of characters and musicians that live creatively and wholesomely in all folds and corners of the great Canadian landscape.
For many reasons, all performances of the Driftwood Trail have been and will be shot in outdoor locations. First to ensure a safe space between the performers and the recording team. Second because the Trail seeks artists outside of the context of recording studios. We fish for raw performances, mainly acoustic although not exclusively (extensions cords trailing out of a van parked on the ocean can be very fun too.)
As to be able to capture high quality sound recordings and film footage, we have started to collect better gear. Our goal is to acquire professional quality gear while remaining light and agile (some of the most exciting shoot locations require a certain amount of hiking and often improvisational setups in the wild.)
The funds will supply help for immediate use in the project:
- to purchase better quality audiovisual gear and digital supplies for our upcoming season 2021;
- to pay collaborating editors, sound mixers and video artists;
- the cost of related art projects, such as analog film and their development, art materials, etc.
The Driftwood Team: Daniel Connolly, Enora Sanschagrin and Keast Mutter.
Check out our website here: Driftwood Website
____________
More on The Driftwood Trail:
“On June 4th, 2020, two musicians and filmmakers, Daniel and Enora, picked up a large piece of driftwood from Margaree Harbour in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and tied it to the roof of their vehicle. Equipped with guitars, note pads, cameras and sound gear, the two drifters began their journey to film musical performances, stories and personalities across the country: The Driftwood Trail.
The trail began on Peter Leblanc’s ‘Front Porch Farm’ in Cape Breton Island. Peter has been hosting music gatherings for years under the name of ‘Margaree Harvest Fest’ and collects records and phone numbers of musicians across the country. The recommendations from his contact list traced the first steps of the Driftwood Trail. Thus the treasure hunt begins: one musician leads to another: “Oh if you go through there you have to meet this one too! She’s a character! He’s a ripper!”
The Driftwood Trail embarks on a country-wide musical adventure, tracing an alternative path through the Canadian Landscape of Folk. Working its way exclusively through word of mouth, the Trail travels from the East to the West coast by following musicians’ recommendations, stopping along the way by luthiers, organic farms and other resettling movements in the country. As the conversation threads between people’s stories, experiences, ideas and ideals, it weaves an organic mosaic of Canadian musicians and communities, tied together by the question of today’s traditional music and its relationship with the land.
The structure is deliberately fluid, recording the trail as it unravels from Peter Leblanc’s genesis list. From this original thread is weaved a mosaic of communities and musicians across the country. Performances, jam sessions, interviews and informal conversations create a net of musical and ideological ties that encapsulate the diversity of the Canadian landscape. Conversations with musicians, farmers and luthiers lead to questions which are then asked to other artists along the way, and so on. The trail unwinds in many directions at once, creating a rhizomatic map of connections through the country.
The Driftwood Trail focuses on the people, their land, their instruments, their ideas, their stories. It unravels organically through inspiring encounters, favouring the free-rolling characters of the backwoods of the country and the lifestyles that embody a return to community living, small-scale farming and the ecology of hand to hand relationships.”
Fundraising team (3)
Driftwood Trail
Organizer
Outremont, QC
Enora Sanschagrin
Team member
Keast Mutter
Team member
