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Will Rendall: Keep On Smiling

Will Rendall released a CD called Keep on Smiling on May 22, 2024. Some Cortes Island residents will remember him as Julia Rendall’s son. He was 7 when he moved to Squirrel Cove in 1976.

He emailed, “I had always liked music but it wasn’t until I heard Billy Joel in 1978 that i became a rock and roll fan. I always thought his lyrics were amazing. I think it would have been around 1981 when I started writing songs. To me lyrics were the most important part of a song. 

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A Quadra Compilation CD comes to Folk U Radio

On Friday Oct 14 Manda Aufochs Gillespie welcomed Quadra Island based sound gurus Jim Thievin and Dylan Alps to Folk U Radio. They are the creators of a Quadra compilation cd we will be hearing more about in the coming months and years. It was born during the pandemic, when the music industry was essentially dead. They had a few rules: the music had to be original and under 5 minutes in length. 

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