Shelley Posen

Shelley Posen
Born	Toronto
Residence	Ottawa
Nationality	Canadian
Other names	Sheldon Posen, I. Sheldon Posen
Education	PhD University of Pennsylvania
Occupation	Curator of Canadian Folklife (ret'd)
Employer	Canadian Museum of History
Known for	Finest Kind, columnist for Sing Out!
Children	son and daughter
Website	[1]

Shelley (I. Sheldon) Posen is a Canadian folklorist, singer and songwriter, a member of the folk trio Finest Kind, and a former writer of the 'Songfinder' column for Sing Out!. In the 1970s, while still a graduate student, he was the Director of Mariposa in the Schools. He conducted fieldwork and recorded traditional songs extensively in the Ottawa Valley. He was Curator of Canadian Folklife at the Canadian Museum of Civilization/Canadian Museum of History from 2001 to 2015. He has written on traditional song, Canadian sports and cultural heroes, and the folklore of Canadian foods such as the butter tart.

For a listing of Shelley Posen's recorded songs to 2015, see http://shelleyposen.com/song-catalogue.html

...
Wikipedia