A fresh face at Ottawa Folk Festival; New artistic director hails from Yukon
By Lynn Saxberg, The Ottawa Citizen
A music fan who says his tastes cover folk, roots, indie-rock, blues and jazz, the tall, Dylan Griffith was offered the job of artistic director of the Ottawa Folk Festival after a nationwide search that attracted more than a dozen qualified applicants.
Photograph by: Brigitte Bouvier, The Ottawa Citizen
On his first visit to Ottawa this week, Dylan Griffith, the new artistic director and producer of the Ottawa Folk Festival, was taken on a guided tour of the festival’s Britannia Park site.
The picturesque riverside setting was covered in snow, but for Griffith, who has been living in the Yukon for most of the past decade, winter is one thing that makes him feel at home. Everything else about Ottawa is new.
A 38-year-old native of Vancouver who looks a bit like Lyle Lovett, Griffith is moving himself and his cat to Ottawa this month to take over the festival’s top job, a recently created position combining artistic direction and management. He is replacing Chris White, the festival’s longtime artistic director and co-founder, who resigned in the fall to pursue other opportunities.
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