This series, patterned after the American Hootenanny show, featured contemporary folk music hosted by folk musician Oscar Brand.
The program was staged at and broadcast from university campuses across Canada and both revived the careers of long-forgotten pioneers of the folk music movement such as Malvina Reynolds, the Womenfolk, The Weavers and others and introduced then-unknown Canadian singers such as Joni Mitchell and Gordon Lightfoot.
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Brand is well known for writing catchy, themed, folk songs, including the eponymous theme to his initially CTV and then CBC television show "Let's Sing Out" and the Canadian patriotic song "Something to Sing About" (actual title: "This Land of Ours"), which is one of Canada's national songs.
The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N is a musical with lyrics and music by Oscar Brand and Paul Nassau.
The song was part of the 1968 Off-Broadway musical How to Steal an Election and its cast album, with music and lyrics adapted by folk singer Oscar Brand.
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Its recordings for RCA (RCA Camden in the United States) sold well, and its single (on Apex Records) of Oscar Brand’s Something to Sing About was a national hit in the celebratory time before the Canadian centennial in 1967.
A Joyful Noise, a 1966 musical with a book by Edward Padula and music and lyrics by Oscar Brand and Paul Nassau