The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #23238   Message #257141
Posted By: Rick Fielding
13-Jul-00 - 12:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: Is there a 'Canadian' style?
Subject: RE: BS: Is there a 'Canadian' style?
All Right Kendall. All right Kendall.

Many of the songs Marius Barbeau collected. Quebec

Goodly number in Edithe Fowke"s various collections. Ontario

Many in Helen Creighton's books. Maritimes

Ken Peacock's works. Newfoundland

Barbara Cass-Beggs' book. Prairies.

Sorry, sorry, I know this is a cop-out, but I gotta run downstairs and teach some folks.

My favourites though? "Isabeau s'y Promenee", "Marianne", "Wheel of Fortune", "Logger's Alphabet", "The Banks Of the Don", and "Scarborough Settler's Lament" ('cause we live in Scarborough)

INOBU. Other than scattered attempts by folks like Estelle Klein to include Native music in Festivals (during the 60s), Few listened or cared until a couple of Native Women rock singers hit the charts a couple of years ago. The festivals are happy to hire Native singers as long as they're female, cute, petite, and sound exactly like American country-folk singer-songwriters.

Rick