DAVID WOODHEAD
    
               
          Best known for his melodic and personal style on the fretless electric bass, David Woodhead has explored much musical territory on his own and with other notable travellers. His creative instrumental work has appeared on over 150 albums in the contemporary folk field, including Stan Rogers’ first two albums and CDs by very original instrumentalists Don Ross and Oliver Schroer, as well as vocalists Loreena McKennitt,  Ron Hynes, Brent Titcomb, Valdy and Mary-Jane Lamond.
        He started by playing banjo at grade school assemblies in Montreal, and his early summers in Vermont  provided much inspiration for the material on his CD “Sweets and Conundrums”. After joining the ground-breaking Perth County Conspiracy (“does not exist”), and through a spell on the West Coast, he has settled in Toronto and raised a family.
         Always busy on the studio, concert, and festival scene, David has recently been performing live as a solo artist and with Betty and the Bobs, Scott Merritt, and Anne Lindsay, along with many others as a freelancer. He has been one of the most frequently appearing musicians at Toronto’s Hugh’s Room, and other performances have included the Montreaux Jazz festival, Guadalajara’s Fiesta de Octobre, and practically every contemporary folk venue and festival in Canada. He has produced recordings for other musicians, including engineering and arranging credits, and scored television and film projects. David completed his CD “Sweets and Conundrums”, a fanciful distillation of his melodic compositions, with a recording grant from the Canada Council in 1999. He has done bass instruction at Rosedale Heights School of the Arts in Toronto, the Ottawa Folklore Center, and the Goderich Celtic College in Goderich, Ontario.
   

CDs Produced by David Woodhead:

    Rachel Kane - Groundwire - Adam’s Rib Productions- Dec. 1997.
    David Woodhead - Sweets and Conundrums -  Woodhead Music -  1999.
    Chris Lowry - The Road Back Home - Lowry Productions - 1998.
    Lynn Harrison - Lynoleum - Lynoleum Music - 2000
    Magoo - Shirt Pay  - KBM Enterprises - 2001
    Trio Franco (from Santiago, Cuba) - Strictly Cuban - Chaparral -2001
    Anne Lindsay  - Eavesdropping- Violindsay Music - 2001
    Heather McLeod - Bones - Vizou/Ozone - 2002       
    Lynn Harrison - Learning Curve - Lynoleum Music - 2003
    Marie-Lynn Hammond - Pegasus - Vignettes Media - 2003
    Cedric Smith - Cedric Smith - self - 2003
    Michael McConkey - Market Stage - Edible Landscaping - 2005
    Paul Gellman - On This Island - self - 2005
    Lynn Harrison - Broadview - Lynoleum  - 2005
    Various Artists - The Coastline of Our Dreams - SGB - 2005
        (DW produced the Betty & the Bobs track this Ian Tamblyn Tribute)
    Terry Jones - The Hard Lesson - NoahZark - 2005
    Rachel Kane  - Unravelling - Adam’s Rib - 2006
          David Bradstreet - Lifelines - Subterranean - 2006
    Max Layton  - The Heartbeat of Time - Maximus - 2006
    Betty and the Bobs - self - 2006


Discography as Session Musician: from over 150 titles:

Anne Lindsay - News From Up The Street - Violindsay - 2006
Oliver Schroer - 5 CDs including “A Million Stars” - Big Dog  - 2004
Garnet Rogers - 6 CDs, including “Shining Thing” -Snow Goose - 2004
Valdy - Viva Valdy - Ad Mare - 2003
Ron Hynes - Get Back Change - Borealis - 2003
Scott Merritt -  5 CDs including “The detOUr Home”  - MCA - 2002
Mary Jane Lamond - "Suas E!" ,1997, "Lan Duil"- 1999
Don Ross -  3 CDs including "Loaded Leather Moonroof"- 1997.
Daisy DeBolt - "Soulstalking", 1992: "I Can" - 1995.
Loreena McKennitt - "Parallel Dreams" - 1990.
Stan Rogers -  3 CDs including "Fogarty’s Cove" - 1976.
Cedric Smith -  "Ten Lost Years and Then Some" - 1976.


Selected Concert Appearances:

- Home County Folk Festival, London, Ontario, 2001, 2005 (featured set)
- Hillside Music festival, Guelph, Ontario, 2001 (featured set)
- Ottawa Folk Festival, Ottawa , Ontario, 2002 (featured set)
- Anne Lindsay CD release, Lula Lounge, Toronto, Ontario, October 2006
- Annual benefits for People For Education - Aaron Davis, leader, 2004-6
- Canada Day,  with Oliver Schroer at Harbourfront, Toronto,July 2000
- with Laurel MacDonald, Monterey World Music Festival, Monterey, Ca, 1999
- James Keelaghan and the Edmonton Symphony, April, 1999,
    Ogden, Utah, 2003 and many more.
- Don Ross at the Glenn Gould Theater, Toronto, Ontario, Dec. 9, 1998.
- Mary Jane Lamond at the Lincoln Center, NYC, Aug. ‘96
- "Stories from the Vinyl Cafe", CBC radio, the Glenn Gould Theatre, Sept 10, 1997.
- Bob Carpenter Benefits (May 27-8 1995): Bathurst Street United
    Church, Toronto. Acted as musical director/ co-ordinator.
- Cedric Smith, Canada Day headliner, July 1, 1993,  Harbourfront, Toronto.
- The Skydome, Toronto, also Detroit and Edmonton Symphony
    Orchestra family series; children’s concerts with Eric Nagler.
- Loreena McKennitt at the Winter Garden Theatre, 1990.
- Montreux Jazz Festival, 1988: Eye Music (acoustic instrumental group also including
Don Ross, Oliver Schroer and Mark Duggan).
- Lahr, West Germany, 1988, CBC live taping with Nancy White,
Marie-Lynn Hammond and Murray McLaughlin.
- Valdy, Tour of the Maritimes, Fall 1987.
- Guadalajara, Mexico, New Orleans & Shreveport, Louisiana:
Dallas,Texas, 1983-4 with Festival of Friends troupe.
- Festival of Friends, Hamilton, Ontario, House Bassist 1981-90.
- "Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave", with Sneezy Waters.
Vancouver Oct.’81; National Arts Centre, Dec.’81/Jan.’82
- Stan Rogers: Rebecca Cohen Auditorium, Halifax, N.S, 1978
- Perth County Conspiracy: Massey Hall 1974-5;
annual events in Stratford, August,  2000- 2006


Some Projects as Composer:

Credit Valley Hospital - various short videos - 2003-4

“Dermott’s Quest”, dramatic short, by director Grimur Ardal, 2003.

“Authentic Canada”- CD of original and adapted music for Sonoton
music library, Munich, Germany, 2001

“Doctors without Borders” fundraising video, director Chris Lowry, 2000   
 
“Yeats in Love”, CBC radio drama taped live at the Glenn Gould
        Theatre, March 5,6,1997. Co-composed with Cedric Smith.

 “On the Rocks”, Half-hour drama concerning the homeless, dir. Grimur Ardal, 1996.

Outdoor Adventure Canada”, series for Life Channel, Goldi Productions, 1996-8.

“Blood Makes the Grass Grow- Conscientious Objectors and the Gulf War”,
documentary by Forward Presence Prod., 1996.

“Eric’s World”  series for preteens; Cambium Productions 1991,
Incidental Music Composer and Assistant Musical Director.

“The Nature of Things” CBC  TV. Episodes “Crying Wolf” 1990,
        “Grizzlies- Losing Ground” 1991.

“Heaven on Earth”: CBC/BBC/Primedia TV feature drama.
Assisted composer Loreena McKennitt.