a family pass to the folk festival, to a family who could not otherwise afford to attend. A frequent juror for creative competitions, Grierson was a charter member of the Writers Guild of Canada, one of the founding members of the British Columbia chapter of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, and sat on the board of directors of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival. Death He died of an apparent heart attack on November 20, 2004. References 1955 births 2004 deaths Canadian talk radio hosts Canadian writers about music Canadian songwriters British Columbia Institute of Technology alumni CBC Radio hosts Classical music radio presenters Musicians from Toronto Writers from Toronto 20th-century Canadian male musicians