Lightfoot, who first performed in Toronto’s Yorkville, is not the Gordon Lightfoot we know today.
The Gordon Lightfoot who first performed in Toronto’s Yorkville, what’s now one of Canada’s ritziest neighbourhoods, is not the Gordon Lightfoot we know today.
In Lightfoot’s case, Daley said, that looked like a sort of maturation. When he first started performing at the coffee shops in the bohemian community, he was part of the folk duo the Two Tones with his old friend Terry Whelan. Three years later, Daley said, Lightfoot would go on to perform at the Riverboat, one of Yorkville’s most famous coffee houses in the ‘60s, for the first time.
“It was designed to keep taverns out of Yorkville. They didn’t want what had happened on Yonge Street to happen in Yorkville,” he said. Robin Elliott, director of the Institute for Canadian Music at the University of Toronto, recalled his single trip to Yorkville in the late 1960s. Real estate developer Ian Richard Wookey, for example, bought up swaths of the neighbourhood in an effort to clean it up and preserve its charm.
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