Roy Forbes - Tender Lullaby (Live) | Blue Frog Studios

Canadian folk fixture and acoustic artist Roy Forbes performs his song "Tender Lullaby" at Blue Frog Studios on November 13, 2021. Visit our website to check out upcoming livestreams from Blue Frog Studios: https://www.bluefrogstudios.ca/ About Roy Forbes ⤵️ Way back in the day, one of the really exciting things about folk festivals and folk clubs was the chance to hear the ‘legends’ – the folks who had made the music when most of the audience was still in diapers. It was Sonny and Brownie, John Lee Hooker, Bill Monroe, Rose Maddox, Earl Scruggs, Ed McCurdy, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot and all those others. They’d been there and done it. We thought they were old and we hung on every word and every note, somehow knowing we were in the presence of something important. Roy Forbes is an organic bridge to those times and those folks. For instance, in the early 70s, eighteen-year-old Roy Forbes (as’Bim’) did one of his first tours with blues legend John Lee Hooker, travelling by station-wagon, braving the snowy January B.C. highways, absorbing tricks of the trade that make him one of the finest live acoustic performers anywhere. Roy played at festivals, coffee houses clubs and in concerts with a bunch of the others - learning from them as they did from the ones whose shoulders THEY stood on. Today Roy Forbes is a ‘veteran’, part of the generation that came of age in the late sixties, early seventies that just happened to refashion popular music. Like those other ‘legends’, Roy today is at the top of his game and able to hold a crowd spell bound, whether a few hundred at a workshop or ten thousand in front of a main stage. Audiences melt in his hands. They sing, they clap, they laugh, they cry, they think. As a songwriter Roy crafts brilliant little stories that can be told in under five minutes. They are vital and appealing enough that he has received the ultimate songwriter’s tribute- a myriad of other artists have covered his songs. As an interpreter Roy has put his personal stamp on brilliant gems by other writers, from Chicago bluesman John Brim to country icon Hank Williams, making them his own. After fifty years, Roy Forbes remains one of Canada’s favourite and best-loved acoustic artists and continues to create and perform great music. About Blue Frog Studios ⤵️ Blue Frog Studios is Canada's hottest live multimedia recording studio and event venue, located in the west coast beach-side town of White Rock, BC (about 40 mins south of Vancouver). The studio provides world-class sound and lighting, as well as 4K video and audio recording technology with an unparalleled production team. From the 23-foot high ceilings, to the river rock walls and beautiful hardwood floors, you know you are in a special place. In the style of Austin City Limits, our 4800 sq. foot facility seats 100 lucky audience members for unique, up close and personal concerts with some of the world’s most talented entertainers. Anyone who has seen a show or recorded here will tell you that it is one of the best sounding rooms in Canada. Website: http://bluefrogstudios.ca Instagram:   / bluefrogstudios   Facebook:   / bluefroglive   Twitter:   / bluefroglive   #music #bluefrogstudios