FRED PENNER: On CBC, music, and Winnipeg

from Slightly A Ways North · host SKYCRON.com / Cory Carlick

We've got another Canadian icon this episode: Fred Penner. Fred talks to us about his upcoming performances, his experiences doing his legendary show, Fred Penner's Place @CBC Television from 1985-1997, and his experience as a musician play bar gigs in the 1970s...including some close calls in the rough and tumble working class bars of Winnipeg with words even Word Bird couldn't say. SLIGHTLY A WAYS NORTH is released every second Saturday at 4 PM ET. Need a video made? http://www.skycron.com/go If this video helped join our Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/skycron Watch GO/NITRO on FOX/ABC/CBS - http://www.gonitro.tv/ Saskatchewan video production - http://www.skycron.com/

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