Lightfoot honoured in his home town

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Legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot has been honoured in his home town of Orillia.

A four metre high bronze sculpture now stands tall at Barnfield Point, on the Gordon Lightfoot Trail.

The statue depicts a young, bearded Lightfoot playing an acoustic guitar surrounded by a wreath of leaves.

Some of the leaves depict scenes from songs on his 1975 album “Gord’s Gold”.

Lightfoot says he is humbled that his music inspired the statue: “This is super special to have a monument of this kind.  The location here at the Mariposa Folk Festival, where I do the odd cameo still.  I’ve performed here five times over the years.  It’s an important festival, and that’s where the statue is situated.  It’s very appropriate I think.”

Ontario native Timothy Schmalz designed the sculpture.

It cost about half a million dollars to make.