Norm Hacking

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Norm Hacking is a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter.

Hacking first performed paid gigs and recorded original songs as a student at Scarborough College (a campus of the University of Toronto). He returned to record 1976 and 1977 concerts which became his first solo album Norm Hacking Live (1977). Critically acclaimed albums Cut Roses (1980) and Stubborn Ghost (1988) followed and led to many festival and concert appearances. A video of one song ("Sammy") aired on The Nashville Network. He cut back touring when he became the single caregiving parent to his young son Ben.

In 1996, with his son now a teen, Hacking released a greatest hits CD with four new songs), Skysongs... A Writer's Collection, and returned to more active performing. In 1996-97, he was artistic director of the Caledon Folk Festival.

A group of Canadian and American songwriters recorded 18 of his songs for a tribute album, One Voice: A Tribute to Norm Hacking, Vol. 1, in 2001. Wayne Marshall of Three Flamingos Music initiated the project. The performers on the album included Michael Peter Smith, Alan Rhody, Mikel Miller, Roger James, Nancy White, Chris Whiteley, Ron Nigrini, Jory Nash, Slowpoke, Jason Fowler and many others.