Bill Bourne...
Some Background Info

   Bill Bourne is a unique creator of music.  Critics have called him "a national treasure", "an iconoclast" and "a master folk musician".  He is the founder of Bourne & MacLeod and a Juno award winning Canadian singer - songwriter. The great grandson of Icelands' Poet Laureate, Stefan G. Stefansson, he grew up in rural Alberta listening to his parents play old time music.

    His first recognition came in the eighties when he did a three year stint with Scotlands' Tannahill Weavers. The confinement of their traditional music prompted him to move on to his own material, hence the creation of Bourne & MacLeod and the release of the ground breaking LP "Dance & Celebrate".   A second Bourne & MacLeod album, "Moonlight Dancers", followed, but the compromises of the pop music

Bill Bourne Discography:

1997 - Bill Bourne
'FARMER, PHILANTHROPIST & MUSICIAN'
Blue Streak Records #97002

1997 - Bourne, Schuld & Stamer
'NO SPECIAL RIDER'
Blue Streak Records #97001

1996 - Bill Bourne & Shannon Johnson
'VICTORY TRAIN'
Free Radio Records #001

1996 - w/The Tannahill Weavers
'CELTIC FOLK FESTIVAL'
Munich Records

1994 - Bill Bourne & Shannon Johnson
'DEAR MADONNA'
Rynde Records #1502

 industry became unacceptable to the writer.  He broke free of his recording contract and returned to what he describes as "the fertile ground of musical autonomy ".

   His recent collaboration with Edmonton violinist/fiddler Shannon Johnson, produced two critically acclaimed CDs, "Dear Madonna" & the 1997 Juno nominated "Victory Train".

    1997 saw the release of 2 new Bill Bourne CDs - a solo project - 'Farmer, Philanthropist & Musician' and the collaborative traditional country blues project, Bourne, Schuld & Stamer -'No Special Rider'.  A fiercely independent musician, Bill Bourne has and continues to create his own niche in the overloaded musical world of the 1990s.

1992 - Bourne & MacLeod
'MOONLIGHT DANCERS'
Attic World #1343

1990 - Bourne & MaacLeod
'DANCE & CELEBRATE'
Attic World #1314

1989 - w/The Tannahill Weavers
'THE BEST OF THE TANNAHILL WEAVERS'
Green Linnet

1984 - w/The Tannahill Weavers
'PASSAGE'
Green Linnet SIF #3031

1981 - Bill Bourne
'BILL BOURNE'
Radio Canada Inter.