Teilhard Frost
940 Bonisteel Rd. Trenton
ON
“An accomplished singer and multi-instrumentalist, Teilhard captures the spirit of the old-time music better than anyone I know.
He is a natural born entertainer whose stage presence is a joyful experience!”
-Rick Ceballos, Artistic Director, Champlain Valley Folk Festival, Vermont, USA.
Canadian musician and instrument maker, Teilhard (tay-YAR) Frost specializes in traditional folk music with a focus on Appalachian old time music. Growing up on Manitoulin Island, Teilhard was surrounded by fiddle tunes, old songs, farming life and the bush. At the age of three he was given a harmonica by his father and his great-grandfather’s fiddle from his Mum. These instruments have taken him around the world, making friends and delighting audiences.
Teilhard has spent the last twenty years touring with the trio Sheesham, Lotus and ‘Son. Together they’ve recorded seven albums, and 31 sides on laquer at 78rpm. His latest solo recording on Wolfe Island Records, ‘Four and Twenty Blackbirds Dancing on a Deer Skin’, is a collection of traditional music found in the Appalachian highlands, some early era banjo tunes, and harmonica songs.
These days, Teilhard lives on Wolfe Island in the St. Lawrence River where he makes banjos, his supper and his bed.
