I heard Stan sing many times at Campbell’s Folk Club in Hamilton in the early ’70s, and later in concerts in and around Ottawa. Most memorable of all to me was his incredible down-to-earth attitude and well of humour. His comment on the efforts of the Campbell’s crowd to set up a sound system and microphones for him, in a converted living room, was to say “anybody with any voice at all should be able to sing without a mic in this room.” And of course his voice could carry not only in a living room or a concert hall, but made the Gatineau hills ring for miles around.
—Adrienne Stevenson, Ottawa
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