John Sobol

As an oralist, John is a professional saxophonist, performance poet and public speaker with over 1,000 gigs to his credit in a dozen countries since 1979. He has traveled widely to apprentice, record and perform with renowned artists and elders from diverse oral traditions. He has been a producer for CBC national radio and run his own record label called Word of Mouth. He also co-curated a major performance art festival, created Canada’s largest spoken word event at The Banff Centre for the Arts, and toured an acclaimed one-man show called Two Million Years of Technology.