Cariboo history comes to life in Vancouver-based band Tiller’s Folly's new EP Way out West.
Released in December 2024, Way out West is the latest addition to the band’s Stirring up Ghosts initiative, an effort to preserve the history and culture of British Columbia’s pioneer days through song and story.
“Each song is unique in the story it tells,” said Bruce Coughlan, the band’s frontman and songwriter.
The story of John Angus ‘Cariboo’ Cameron is sung by Coughlan in a bardic fashion, reminiscent of the Celtic traditions which followed the Irish and Scottish who came to western Canada in the 1800s.
When asked why he chose Cameron’s story, Coughlan told the Tribune it was due to the “tragicness of it.”
“It’s a hauntingly beautiful song,”...
