Albums
CDs list below can also be purchased in person at live shows.
le retour d’étienne brûlé
Mike’s new album – his first en français – is now available!
le retour d’étienne brûlé is an original 12-song journey from 17th century Wendake/Huronia to 21st century Toronto.
Available now at Maple Music and iTunes.
The composition of this original French song-cycle was made possible by support from the Toronto Arts Council and The Canada Council for the Arts. The recording and production of “le retour d’étienne brûlé” was made possible by the Ontario Arts Council Chanson & Musique Program.
Lyrics to the songs from le retour d’étienne brûlé can be downloaded by clicking here (PDF).
Flames Across the Border (The 1812 Song Project)
The 1812-1814 conflict comes alive in music and words with Mike Ford’s original songs about epic events (the invasion of Little York, Great Lake ship battles) famous characters (Tecumseh, Fitzgibbon) and unsung participants (farm-trampled settlers, deep woods couriers). Made possible by support from The 1812 Commemoration Fund, Department of Canadian Heritage.
Listen to it in full on the 1812 page of this site, or at The Museum of Canadian Music
The Greatest Hits of The Cocksure Lads, 1963 – 1968
Mike and fellow Moxy Früvous bandmate Murray Foster have finally recorded 12 songs of their alter-ego British Invasion project “The Cocksure Lads”! Learn more on Facebook.
CD available at Maple Music.
SEAWAY by Mike Ford & David Francey
In late May of 2005 we were granted the incredible opportunity to spend two weeks aboard the MV Algoville. We sailed from Montreal to Thunder Bay and back along the Saint Lawrence Seaway and the majestic inland sea of the Great Lakes.
CD available at Maple Music. Digital download at Itunes.
Canada Needs You, volume two
A Juno-Nominated rip-roaring journey through Canada’s 20th Century, featuring 12 original songs and numerous musical guests. Lyrics to the songs from Canada Needs You Volume Two can be downloaded by clicking here (PDF).
CD available at Maple Music. Digital download at Itunes.
Canada Needs You, volume one
(Juno nominated!)
This is Mike’s first CD devoted to his original Canadian History songs featuring the lives and events from pre-1905 Canada. Lyrics to the songs from Canada Needs You Volume One can be downloaded by clicking here (PDF).
CD available on iTunes and at Maple Music.
Satellite Hotstove
Odes to the rivers Credit and Fraser, to Saskatchewan prairie through a Via train window, to the joys of autumn, the thrill of Luge and to an island in Toronto Harbour that, when one uses one’s imagination, could really be a lot more interesting and enjoyable without an airport on it.
Lyrics to the songs from Satellite Hotstove can be downloaded by clicking here (PDF).
CD available at Maple Music. Also, you can listen to it at the Museum of Canadian Music.
stars shone on toronto 2004
Mike’s first solo album, it features such great songs as Star’s Shone on Toronto, Crossroad – Song for Jane Jacobs and Tooker – Le Monde A Bicyclette. Lyrics can be downloaded by clicking here (PDF)
CD available at Maple Music. Also, you can listen to it at the Museum of Canadian Music.
Canoesongs
Mike’s featured with a dozen other Canoe-Friendly artists (incl. Tanglefoot, Ian Tamblyn, Nancy White) on an excellent Canoe Songs compilation CD.
CD and music book available at the Ottawa Folklore Centre.