Hi everyone

Thanks for your input. I've been approaching this from the point of view of a classical singer - the rest of the pieces on the program are in French, German and Italian - and I wouldn't sing a piece in public unless I'd worked the language with a native speaker to try to sound as close to native as possible. The same goes with an accent in English, I wouldn't dare just wing it. The issue with doing it in my own accent is that I'm Canadian, and the text is full of lines like "Ye'll get twa sichts o your leman" and "'T' is pitten my head in sick a steer I my bowr I canna be." - which I feel may sound equally ridiculous in my hockey and doonuts accent, eh?

Some of these lines I wouldn't even know how to begin Canadianizing... and because of the time period in which they take place it wouldn't feel right anyways. Without study it will just end up being lamely mid-Atlantic. However, it might be best to go to a linguist for what I need. If only I knew any!

Isaiah