Songs of New England

Subject: Songs of New England
From: GUEST,Frank and Mary
Date: 09 Oct 01 - 11:18 AM

Hi, Mudcatters. We'll be doing a performancee in conjunction with a museum presentation of the painter Winslow Homer. We would like your help in suggesting some songs that we might do. Homer painted a lot of seascapes and fly fisherman, sponge divers in the New England area and in the Carribean and the Bahamas, and Canada as well as the Adirondacks. Any help you can give us would be gratefully received.

Thanks,

Frank and Mary

Subject: RE: Songs of New England
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 09 Oct 01 - 01:02 PM

Winslow Homer did a lot of inland paintings, too. What a great subject, Frank and Mary. Where will the concert be?
Songs in the DT that I can think of right off the top of my head:
Blow, ye winds in the morning
Rolling Home (to old New England)
Springfield Mountain (just to bring it inland a bit!

I'm trying to think of a good regional song to illustrate "Snap the whip".

Subject: RE: Songs of New England
From: Pinetop Slim
Date: 09 Oct 01 - 03:08 PM

Perhaps some Gordon Bok songs? Link here if it might helpful.

Subject: RE: Songs of New England
From: BleedingHeart
Date: 09 Oct 01 - 03:59 PM

"Charlie on the MTA?" (kidding! really!)

might i suggest the Frostiana Song Series? written by randall thompson, they are beautiful musical renditions of robert frost's poems. excellent new englandy ones like "Stopping By Woods on A Snowy Evening" and "The Road Less Travelled" evoke our puritan, yankee"ness" quite accurately!

~bleedingheart

Subject: RE: Songs of New England
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 09 Oct 01 - 04:19 PM

Margaret Macarthur's recordings are a gold mine of New England-centric material. For example, check out "Vermont Ballads and Broadsides" and "An Almanac of New England Farm Songs." See www.margaretmacarthur.com

Subject: RE: Songs of New England
From: breezy
Date: 09 Oct 01 - 04:32 PM

when fall comes to new england by cherryl wheeler.most seasonal.reminds me of a visit 4years ago.

Subject: RE: Songs of New England
From: GUEST,Frank and Mary
Date: 09 Oct 01 - 04:49 PM

Hi Animaterra

High Museum, Atlanta GA.

Frank and Mary

Subject: RE: Songs of New England
From: Julia
Date: 09 Oct 01 - 10:15 PM

Try to find Folk Songs of Old New England by Eloise Hubbard Linscott. published 1939 by MacMillan

Subject: RE: Songs of New England
From: Barry Finn
Date: 10 Oct 01 - 05:51 PM

Susanna Martin, recorded a while back by Touchstone. Words are taken from the orginal trial transcript & put to music by Claudine Langille (sp?) one of the groups singer's & their banjo player. Good Luck, Barry

Subject: RE: Songs of New England
From: GUEST,Chip
Date: 10 Oct 01 - 07:01 PM

Sponges in the Adirondacks?

Chip A.

Subject: RE: Songs of New England
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 11 Oct 01 - 02:12 AM

Mudcat's Jed Marum on his CD Streets of Fall River sings Sweet Ellen Joyce (set in New Bedford) and Streets of Fall River and others. Check lyrics at his website www.jedmarum.com. All the best

Seamus

Subject: RE: Songs of New England
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 11 Oct 01 - 06:27 AM

Hi, there! Atlanta, hm? Oh, well, it would be a bit of a commute for me from so'western New Hampshire! Good luck with the concert; post us a song list, please, when you have it!