Founder of the award-winning Canadian roots music group Tiller鈥檚 Folly, Bruce Coughlan is setting course on a new adventure.

Part of the adventure is coming to the Filberg Festival in Comox on Aug. 5 at 3:45 p.m. on the Garden Stage.

鈥淚鈥檓 proud of all the great work we鈥檝e done over the last 20 years, and Tiller鈥檚 Folly will continue to be a big part of my creative life. It鈥檚 the longest run I鈥檝e had with any band, and we鈥檙e by no means done yet.

鈥淢usic for me has always been like living in an adventure novel. It carries me away to another place, another time.鈥�

He鈥檚 been doing it a long time.

鈥淚鈥檝e been writing and performing music since I was 13. Over the years, I鈥檝e indulged in a number of creative tangents, re-inventing myself musically like a method actor immerses in a character. Discovering my own voice in another style is the ultimate musical adventure.鈥�

Over the decades, Coughlan鈥檚 music has constantly evolved and morphed, never staying put too long in just one place.

鈥淚 guess you could say my primary interest is folk, at times I鈥檝e dabbled in blues, soul, Celtic, bluegrass, rock, and even Latin, reggae, and calypso.鈥�

Coughlan has recently launched a new website - - detailing much of his colourful musical past.

鈥淚鈥檓 emerging now as a solo performer, storyteller and compere.鈥�

Tiller鈥檚 Folly is known throughout North America as a preeminent Americana/folk/Celtic group, recorded scores of songs and videos, performed in several different countries and their most recent recording, Stirring Up Ghosts Volumes 1 and 2, features 24 historically-based songs that cover the known and unknown stories of real people across the country and across more than a century.

Coughlan and the band have also been working on co-operative projects The Great Canadian Songbook (with tenor Ken Lavigne and Diyet) and Voices for the Salish Sea (along with The Wilds.)

For Coughlan, it鈥檚 all about making music, making new music.

鈥淚n a world filled with so much noise, music makes sense,鈥� he says. 鈥淚t puts me in the moment, where I feel like I belong.鈥�

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