others, Anne Lederman Ian Robb Bobby Watt Allison Lupton Lee Murdock In 1985, Bell served as the artistic director of the Marioposa Folk Festival, a multi-day folk music festival that has been running in Ontario since 1961. Contributions to CBC: As a long-time freelance broadcaster, he has often worked with Stuart McLean on CBC Radio's Vinyl Café. Bell has co-written and been music director for five Vinyl Café national concert broadcasts. For seven years he was a regular contributor to the weekend Fresh Air program on CBC radio. Over the years, Bell appeared several times on Peter Gzowski's Morningside as well as these CBC programs: Ideas Gabereau (Vicki Gabereau) Crossroads This Morning Radio Noon Contributions to Canadian television shows: Bell has contributed to many film scores and performed period music for the TV series, The Road to Avonlea and appeared in some episodes. Music education Toronto's "Mariposa in the Schools" program is a charity started by the Mariposa Folk Foundation in 1970. For forty years, the program has been bringing performed art into Toronto schools: instrumental music, song, storytelling, puppeteering, and drama. Bell has been part of it for years and has developed several programs that share traditional music with young people. His school programs have been taught to classes ranging from Kindergarten to Gr. 8. the programs include these: Canadian Heritage Music - "Breathe life into Canadian history" Sound Production Program - "How do instruments work?" and instrument building classes From There to Here, From Then to Now - "celebrating our past through songs, dance, music, and humour" Unplugged but Resonant - "light-hearted exploration of the physics of sound on many traditional instruments" Tamaracker Down - "Old-time Ontario Step Dancing" Bell was still delivering programs through MITS as recently as 2010. Discography Bell's recordings include these albums: 2009 – My Pious Friends & Drunken Companions. traditional songs and tunes with Geoff Somers, Anne Lederman, Oliver Schroer, Denis Rondeau, The Bilge Rats, Pat O’Gorman, Shane Cooke and others. 2007 – Shallow Water. Original Songs and tunes music inspired by Port Dover and lakeside life. 2000- Signor Farini & Other Adventures. Original Songs and traditional tunes, with The Dawnbreakers. Mostly original songs inspired by life in southwest Ontario. CDs available on request. 1996 – Free Range. Original Songs and instrumental music accompanied by the Dawnbreakers. CDs available on request. 1993 – Singing In A Strange Land. Shape note music from Waterloo