Ducks Unlimited Canada Podcast

From the vault: Ecology education one tune at a time

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Synopsis

How did Canadian musician David Archibald spend his summer vacation? He did a musical tour of 31 Ontario provincial parks (and worked in an eight-day voyager canoe trip for R and R). His campground concerts were aimed at kids and families and celebrated the history of the parks. But, with his often playful songs, he also educated his audience about the ecology and fragile nature of the habitats within park boundaries. Ducks Unlimited Canada does its own educational outreach through our Wetlands Centres of Excellence and Wetland Heroes programs.  http://www.ducks.ca/our-work/education/ But this episode, we’re focussing on Archibald’s education through music. Archibald has been interpreting natural spaces with his music for 29 years when Bon Echo Provincial Park hired him to celebrate the petroglyph-famous campground in song. He has written for and performed on Sesame Street in New York and CBC's Mr. Dressup.  But he’s also a music producer (he gave Avril Lavigne her first shot at a studio microphone) and is cu