The Carrie Grover Project

Subject: The Carrie Grover Project
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Jun 24 - 05:14 PM

Steve Winick of the Library of Congress posted this on Facebook.

https://carriegroverproject.com/

An endeavor devoted to the preservation of Grover's ancestral music and the accompanying historical narrative.

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This is a free resource to over two hundred English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh folksongs and ballads sung and passed down through generations of Grover's own family. Immersed in traditional music and raised in a large musical family, Grover's collection delivers a broad range of songs Grover learned and sang in rural Nova Scotia in the late 1800s. The songs are available in downloadable pdf form, and the family stories, some dating back to the late 1700s, are presented in a podcast series that shines a light on the lives of very ordinary, hard working people and the music that entertained and sustained them.

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There is more music yet to be included on this site. Library of Congress recordings (songs and fiddle tunes), and podcasts will continue to be added in the coming weeks, so please come back to hear more.

Subject: RE: The Carrie Grover Project
From: GUEST,Julia L
Date: 18 Jun 24 - 05:58 PM

This is the incredible result of years of work by Julie Mainstone Savas. Huge Kudos to her for this amazing site. I am told that she is having trouble maintaining it by herself and is going to let it lapse so enjoy it ASAP

Julia L

Subject: RE: The Carrie Grover Project
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Jun 24 - 08:04 PM

Julia, can you find out what she needs to keep it going? Or is it best to let it go and be picked up by archive.org and preserved there?