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Canadian musician and instrument maker, Teilhard (tay-YAR) Frostspecialises in traditional folk music with a focus on Appalachian oldtime 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 recorded seven albums, and 31 sides on laquer at 78rpm.

Teilhard’s latest solo recording, ‘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.

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“I have been waiting for something like this for years! Finally it's here!” - Steve Pritchard, radio host, CIUT Toronto

“Teilhard Frost is an accomplished singer and multi-instrumentalist who captures the spirit of the old-time music he plays better than anyone I know. He is a natural born entertainer who's stage presence is a joyful experience!” -Rick Ceballos, Artistic Director of Champlain Valley Folk Festival, VT

“He can enthral an audience with a tall tale or with the rhythms of his hands and feet. Add to that his self penned tunes that sound as if they have been around for a century or so, his deft fiddle and homemade banjo playing, stir in a variety of other instruments and a penchant for the arcane, and you have a renaissance man on a mission to delight. Go see Teilhard Frost.” -Magoo, musician, impresario, Master of Ceremonies.