Steven Page - Other Activities and Interests

Other Activities and Interests

  • Page has been an avid member of the New Democratic Party, and has been a notable supporter of former federal NDP leader (and his riding's MP), Jack Layton. He performed Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah at Layton's funeral.
  • As of August 31, 2008, he was a member of the board of directors marketing and events committee for World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada).
  • As of July 2007, Page was a member of the WindShare co-op that built/owns the wind turbine at Exhibition Place in downtown Toronto.
  • Page owns a farmhouse somewhere in the region surrounding Toronto. At some point prior to the recording of Barenaked for the Holidays, he invested in building a recording studio at his farmhouse, which he has named Fresh Baked Woods. The band's first record there was the aforementioned Holidays album. The band also used the studio for the recording sessions for the Barenaked Ladies Are Me / Barenaked Ladies Are Men albums. Page acquired the console from Le Studio, where the band recorded Gordon (among the many famous albums recorded at that studio), and integrated some of its equipment into the console at Fresh Baked Woods.

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