After The Accident

Breathe

From Beautiful To Damned

The Devil Behind Me

Heart Beat

Wooderson

Folk Thief live interview with Ken Siira on Q104FM

Folk Thief Interview on Q104FM

Interview with Dave White on CBC Radio Airplay on October 20, 2011 discussing the Cross-Canada Tour and the WCMA Awards. 

Interview on CBC Radio - Airplay

New single from Folk Thief, released Feb 14, 2012. Featuring special guests Kelly Haigh and My Boy Rascal. Clocking in at 2:34, this pretty little ditty is sure to leave a smile on your face!
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Folk Thief - Love

Folk Thief - I Found a Road feat. My Boy Rascal

Folk Thief is the latest incarnation of Canadian singer /songwriter Dave Hadgkiss. Born and raised in Kamloops B.C., Dave began playing guitar at the age of 14. He spent some time screaming his head off and stomping on distortion pedals in the Kamloops-based geek rock band, the Gelcaps, and his own punk rock recording project, Weapons Will Kill.  But a borrowed copy of the Townes Van Zandt Biopic Be Here to Love Me inspired him to blow the dust off his acoustic guitar and re-examine the ability of music to tell stories and express the full range of human emotion…. Folk Thief was born.

With influences ranging from folk to punk, from country to rock’ n’ roll, Dave has developed his own unique style.   Sharpening his song-writing and guitar-playing skills playing local gigs in Vancouver led to being invited to open for Blind God at the Railway Club.  It’s been non-stop since then.  

Love, Heartache and Oblivion is Folk Thief’s first album. As the ‘one part happy, two parts sad’ recipe of the title suggests, the album is a fun, soulful and sometimes haunting collection of acoustic folk-pop.  When asked where his inspiration comes from, Hadgkiss says he plays the way the song feels like it needs to be... “There’s a rock opera in me somewhere!”

His debut album is receiving critical acclaim in music magazines and blogs and is being picked up on local radio stations across Canada, making the top 10 on folk/roots/blues charts, as well as the top 30.

“Undeniably intimate and likable...like a young Leonard Cohen.” Tom Harrison, The Vancouver Province

“A definite example of less is more...Folk Thief stole my heart with this lovely debut” – les siemieniuk, Penguin Eggs

“A less angry but no less earnest early Bob Dylan” - BC Musician Magazine

Folk Thief is currently touring across Canada promoting his critically-acclaimed debut album, Love, Heartache and Oblivion. As he explained in an interview with the Golden Star, the inspiration for the title of his album came after he realized that “these themes are universal and important to our understanding of each other and ourselves.” 

Watch for Folk Thief’s new album, Then the West was Lost, next spring...