Last winter in January 2020, we received an invitation to a house party in Oaxaca because the host, Mary Rankin (no relation to the Family), had heard that Dave played guitar. We didn't know the other guests, but Dave was soon chatting with this gentleman about music. In mid-sentence he stopped and asked "Are you Bram?"
Sharon had retired, Lois had died, and this man, of course, was Bram, from the popular children's trio.
He and his wife were checking out Oaxaca to see if they liked it better than San Miguel de Allende, Mexico where they had met and had been living for several years. His wife Sara, an American, told me she had no idea that Bram was so well-known until they moved to Toronto and people stopped him on the street.
We had a great potluck dinner with plenty of mezcal (I've never been to a gathering in Oaxaca where there wasn't mezcal). Dave jammed with other musicians and Bram did a few Spanish folksongs. He was coaxed by other Canadians to do Skinnamerinky-dinky dink which none of the Americans had ever heard before. Bram said he had performed children's concerts in every little town in Canada but I guess his songs didn't make the charts in the states. Or maybe these people just didn't have children in the 80's and 90's.
We saw Bram and Sara a few more times. He even credited Dave for teaching him a new chord on the guitar.
