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If I remember correctly (I was there in the amazed audience) Sam Chatmon's 1970's Toronto appearance was not the Mariposa festival, but at Tim Harrison's short-lived "Toronto Folk Festival" held down near the yacht club at the foot of Bathurst Street. The year couldn't have been '74 since I didn't arrive in Toronto until fall of '75; I can't say for sure, but I think it was the summer of 1976 and the lineup also included Elizabeth Cotton.

Sam Chatmon was astounding. He looked 80 and maybe 80lbs, and had to be assisted to the stage by a sweet young thing holding his arm and carrying his guitar. She seated him centre stage on a plain banquet chair, and with all the strength in his skinny frail arms he hoisted that stainless steel national guitar to his lap and started to play.

for 45 minutes the stage was a blaze of fury in sound, Sam rocking back and forth on the back legs of the chair, stomping his two feet, wailin' that mississippi blues.

when Sam finished, the guitar slid down to the stage beside him, the sweet young thing came out and escorted him back to the stageside, the crowd frantic in applause, and not any tribute applause, but sheer and utter blown out of their soaking socks sort of applause.

One old old man. One chair. One guitar. I knew right then and there that what that man did for a living was pure voodoo magic.

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I deleted the section "Timeline" because it merely repeats what has already been succinctly stated in the preceding paragraphs

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I deleted the section "Timeline" because it merely repeats what has been succinctly stated in the preceding paragraphs.

The deleted copy is as follows:

• 1897 – Born in Bolton, Mississippi
• 1930 – Recorded with the Mississippi Sheiks, Lonnie and the Chatman Brothers
• 1940 – Moved to Hollandale, Mississippi, to work on plantations
• 1960 – Rediscovered as a folk-blues artist, he also recorded for the Arhoolie label
• 1970 – Performed with Fingers Taylor on the Blues Caravan
• 1974 – Played the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife in Washington, D.C.
• 1974 – Played the Mariposa Folk Festival in Toronto
• 1976 – Played the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
• 1983 – Died Jwicklatz (talk) 06:10, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]