Dave Paddon was born and raised in Northwest River, Labrador. He is a crowd favourite at storytelling and ballad-singing events in St. John’s, and has performed at festivals and concerts across the island and on the mainland. Dave has written numerous recitations; five of them – The Card Game, Berries, The 12, Not a Word of a Lie, and The Christmas Turr – have been published by Running the Goat as letterpress-printed chapbooks.
Running the Goat has also published three commercially printed books by Dave: Ralph, Flying Hound (2016); a collection of thirteen of his recitations, Half the Lies You Tell Are Not True (2018); and Kimmy and Mike (2020).
A former commercial pilot, Dave divides his time between St. John’s and English Harbour.
You can purchase audio versions of Dave’s recitations through his website davepaddon.com
