Pat performing at the Texada Blues and Roots Festival 2019. Photo: Sherry McKnight
Since moving to Powell River in 2010, Pat has remained active in the music community. Prior to COVID-19, he hosted house concerts for several years, booked performers for shows in town, teaches guitar, and runs a small recording studio on Texada Island. Pat talks about songwriting in his memoir Only Children.
Pat on tour in the early 1980s
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This tune began at a virtual songwriting workshop with Cosy Sheridan in April 2022.
A song about events that happened to me in my late 20’s. I wrote extensively about this in my memoir Only Children, available in paperback or e-book format from Amazon.
This tune was in response to a prompt “on a bus”. I expect we’ve all seen this woman at one time or another.
My song Bugaboos played a big part in changing the direction of my life. I wrote extensively about this in my memoir.
Everyone has that favourite teacher. This song was written about an event that happened in Calgary, Alberta at Viscount Bennett High School in 1968. I wrote about this period of my life in my memoir Only Children, available as a paperback and e-book on Amazon.
My first response to folks protesting COVID health mandates.
The Dancing Lesson was one of the first songs I wrote after moving to Fort Smith, NWT in 1980.
This was one of the first songs I wrote back in the 1970’s before I had any clue what it was all about.
While living in Fort Smith, NWT Pat Buckna created the first northern-based record label Jamadam Records. Between1982 and 1985, he released two albums, a single and three cassettes. In 2009 Pat re-released Flint & Steel, an album of Jim Green’s poetry and his music on CD and included Echoes of the Northland – a 13-minute soundscape commissioned for the NWT Expo ’86 pavilion. In Oct 2023 Pat released a new album Singing My Songs For You
