Ruth Jones McVeigh, co-founder of long-running Mariposa Folk Festival, dead at 99

Ruth Jones McVeigh, co-founder of long-running Mariposa Folk Festival, dead at 99

Ruth Jones McVeigh, co-founder of Canada's influential and venerable Mariposa Folk Festival, has died at the age of 99. Jones McVeigh, who died Wednesday in Ottawa, was a driving force behind the creation of the enduring, community-oriented annual musical gathering that's

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