Stan Pickett (Canada - NL)
Stan Pickett grew up playing the button
accordion for square dances and listening to English folk songs in
his native Fair Island, Bonavista Bay. He played guitar and sang in
a country-pop band in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but since the
early nineties he has focused on traditional music. Since then his
repertoire has grown to include more English folk songs, along with
Irish and Scottish traditional songs, jigs, reels, polkas, and
airs. Stan is also gaining a reputation as a composer and has
created several outstanding original jigs and reels. He is
currently a member of THE AUNTIE CRAE BAND and THE PICKETT LINE,
and performs regularly, for Newfoundland & Labrador Folk Arts
Council events, at conventions and receptions, folk festivals, and
private events.
