The Blackfly Song

It won’t be long now before paddlers are humming this popular folk song on the portage trail, around the campfire and just about everywhere else too. 

From the National Film Board of Canada: “This animated film about the pesky blackfly is based on the song of the same title, written and sung by Canadian folk singer Wade Hemsworth, with back-up vocals by the McGarrigle sisters. It recounts Hemsworth’s battles with this quintessential “critter” during a summer of surveying in Northern Ontario.”