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Dave playing guitar
DecadentDaveClement embroidered in blue on fuzzy tan fabric
Checking out the tuning in a hotel room in Toronto

NAME: David Archie Clement

BORN: A long time ago, Brantford, Ontario Canada

GREW UP: Port Dover, Ontario, Canada

PARENTS: Archie & Edith, old time country musicians

HOME BASE: The Bhigg House, 337 Oxford St.
Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada R3M 3H9

MUSICAL INFLUENCES: My parents, My aunts and uncles,
Jim Reeves, Gord Lightfoot, Simon & Garfunkle, Bob Dylan, Kingston Trio, Peter Paul & Mary, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Creedence Clear Water Revival, Grateful Dead, Stan Rogers, Sam Baardman, Tom Jeffers

INSTRUMENTS PLAYED: Voice, Guitar, Cittern, Irish Penny Whistle, Bodhran, Dumbek, Djembe

This photo looks like: "Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope"
FAVOURITE FOODS: Pizza, Cashews, BBQ Peanuts, Meatloaf & mashed potatoes, Egg McMuffins, liver & onions

FAVOURITE DRINKS: Coke Classic, Grapefruit Crush, Chocolate milkshake, Dark rum & coke

FAVOURITE PLACES I'VE PLAYED: Toronto's Yorkville Village, Winnipeg Folk Festival, boats and ferries, small town fairs & festivals, SF/F conventions, England, house concerts, room parties

PLACES I'D LIKE TO PLAY: All Mom & Pop restaurants in Canada, Folk Club circuit in England & Europe, 100th Anniversary Winnipeg Folk Festival

WEIRDEST PLACES I'VE PLAYED: "City of New Orleans" train bar car table, Maritime laundromats,
under Marrion Bridge, roof of strip bar in New Orleans

WORST PLACES I'VE PLAYED: St. John's Park with ten trillion mosquitoes, local bar on St. Patty's Day with 500 drunk screaming youngsters and one belly dancer

MOST EXCITING PERFORMANCE: Winnipeg Folk Festival concert, Playing for Ex-president Jimmy Carter at the Forks, waiting to lead WFF finale in "The Mary Ellen Carter" (thwarted by a tornado)

BEST TOUR: The Talis Kimberley/Canadian Mythical Beasts Tour in Nov. 2000

DISLIKES: People who do not respect women and children, the death of traditions, motion sickness, living so far away from dear friends, brash pushy musicians, out of tune guitars, wierd exotic food, misplaced chairs and open cupboard doors

LIKES: Hugs, singing harmony and jamming, hugs, email conversations, hugs, pizza & coke, hugs...

FAVOURITE SAYINGS: "How about a hug eh?", "Your B string is flat"

FAVOURITE PERSON TO EMBARRASS: Myself given the frequency with which I do it

BANDS PLAYED IN: Richmond Trio, Persis Clarkson Trio, Prairie Wind, The Four Freds, Dandelion Wine, Curraugh

HOW LONG WITH DW?: Forever

MAIN FILK INFLUENCES: Leslie Fish, Kathy Mar,
Bill & Brenda Sutton, Urban Tapestry

MAIN EARLY FILK SUPPORTERS: Bill Roper, Kathy Mar

Dave visits Stonehenge
Dave performing in concert at the Bhigg House
Dave Clement live at the Bhigg House, Winnipeg 2001
Dave belting out a Stan Rogers tune (I bet)
Dave live in England
Dave and Debbie share a laugh at the banquet
Dave with Debbie Ohi at an OVFF banquet
Dave with three lovely smiling German girls
Taunya Gren and Dave at a room party
Tom, Taunya, Scott and Dave at a filk
Dave visiting with some of the German filkers
Dave, Tom and Pete jamming
Dave piloting the boat during a Baggiecon outing
Dave driving the boat during a dinner outing
during Baggiecon
"Dixie Chicken":
Dave on guitar, Tom on cittern, and Pete Grubbs on dobro
jamming in a hallway filk
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