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About Me

modieval music for lordly leapers, leafy twig tweakers, saffron sound freakers, hi-heel sneakers, rocking frogs, ink drinkers, posiedon people, centaurs, minotaurs, guitaurs, weirdies, biking vikings, tomorrow people, afghan hounds, gnostic brothers, lightning laugh lovers, thunder mothers, chocolate machine shakers, mocassin maids and streamy wades, golden hairs and records players, trumpet tongue talkers & riverbank rockers....

http://www.saffronsect.ca

DISCLAIMER: the saffrons neither beleive in the existance of, nor endorse the use of the so-called "inter-net", the "web", the "inter-web", "myspaces" (who owns space?), "blogs" or any ficticious malignant characters contained or operating therein.

oh, yes... we also dig vegetables and agree that you can judge a society by the way it treats and values it's old, very young, the addled, animals, and it's trees.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/5/2006
Band Website: saffronsect.ca
Band Members:
Gaven Dianda: Sings, Writes, Guitar, Recorder, Fiddle, Kazoo
Richard Gibson: Autoharp & Sitar
Calvin Brown: Mandoline, Tamboura, Clinkers & Strum
Katie Iarocci: Flute, Dulcimer, Glockenspiel
Matthew McLaren: Bass
Jay Anderson: Drums, Washboard & Chings
Michael Franklin: Hurdy Gurdy, Krummhorn.

Thanks To: Christian Hamilton, Jim Bravo, Tomas Monte, Jeff Burke, Elizabeth Aston, Lee Gorton, Dave Ewanson, Tyler Messick, Femke & Lee, Edgar Breau, Bob Bryden, Bruce Mowat, Rob Porteus, Sara Saljoughi, Dan Beer, Nick Taylor, Matt Murphy & Millman..all for being superfantastic.

Influences: christmas, curried spinach, gus cannon, cliff carlisle, byrds, big barda, w.b. yeats, tir na nog, john renbourn, dr. strangely strange, gryphon, gus cannon, curley weaver, william morris, john ruskin, hamish imlach, isb, blind boy fuller, watersons, marmalade, spike milligan, riley puckett, 23rd turnoff, turquoise, the seeds, the mabinogion, manawydan, mighty baby, mississippi john hurt, mance lipscomb, oisin, gelki, gwalchmai, grettir, the people of laxdaela and njal.
and yuri rubinsky. thank you.

danzen.
Sounds Like: pink and orange flash-powder, neptune fizz, marsh reeds & blown toadflax...

cloud-catching songs and twilight parlour music for imaginary friends of the future

Record Label: www.figrecords.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Redbricks:mini doc.

here's a mini doc about our friends at Redbricks...(feat. Jon Stammers, Lee Gorton, The Travelling Band, The Beep Seals, & Lee Janda) REDBRICKS Doc....
Posted by The Saffron Sect on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:27:00 PST

Probably The Nicest Review....

This one's by a Gentlman named Jonathan Stewart at indyish.com http://www.indyish.com/saffron-sect-a-reflection...
Posted by The Saffron Sect on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:27:00 PST

UK TOURDATES (Update)

Hello good peoples of the inter-web, faithful readers and dear friends. This summer, in the month of August, while the waters are warm, The Saffrons intend to swim across the Atlantic Ocean and play s...
Posted by The Saffron Sect on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:20:00 PST

10,000 micrograms of music: new old live films

we've unearthed some live footage captured on security camera by the robs of brantford, of the Saffrons debut live performance, april 22, 2005 in Hamilton at the Casbah at the 10,000 micrograms of mus...
Posted by The Saffron Sect on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:51:00 PST

New Sounds, Old Sounds & Fizzy Wigglers

Hello, we've added some new songs to this page. One is an old song (thanks to Mance Lipscomb) that will be included in and on the Fig Folk Song Sampler hopefully sometime this year, who knows? t...
Posted by The Saffron Sect on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:18:00 PST

CHRISTMAS, REIGN GHOST etc.etc.

On behalf of the New Society For the Year-Round Preservation of the Spirit of Christmas, we'd like to thank everyone for coming out in support of our Christmas-Reign Ghost revival. here's some links t...
Posted by The Saffron Sect on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:54:00 PST

Halifax Bound!

Hon. Saffrons Gaven & Richard (an abridged but potent sect) are making the scene at this year's North By North End Music Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Aided and abetted by Heavy Blinkers &...
Posted by The Saffron Sect on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:32:00 PST

VIEW MAGAZINE Feature (Hamilton, ON)

View Magazine (Hamilton, Ontario) feature: http://www.viewmag.com/viewstory.php?storyid=5447
Posted by The Saffron Sect on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:08:00 PST

Sorauren Park Free Festival JULY 21 1:00 PM

THE SAFFRON SECT at 1:00 PMw/ Medieval & Early Renaissance Folk & Dance MusicBy MICHAEL FRANKLIN SORAUREN PARK FESTIVALSATURDAY JULY 21(Sorauren Ave. & Wabash Ave.)10 Am -10 PmBBQ & Be...
Posted by The Saffron Sect on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 03:08:00 PST

"Let's Get Baked" feat: Saffron Rice w/Fig

Matt & Dave from "Let's Get Baked" were over visiting Saffronland and we had a grand old time, (as one tends to in kitchen parties) made some curried spinach, and saffron rice with ...
Posted by The Saffron Sect on Tue, 08 May 2007 12:14:00 PST