Lyr Req: School Project PLEASE READ...

Subject: School Project PLEASE READ...
From:
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 05:05 PM

If anyone knows of and french poets or song writers from Nova Scotia could you please e-mail me or leave a message here? thanks a bunch! =O)

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From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 05:12 PM

No, but I do know a Lithuanian pants presser who lives down the block and knows all the verses to "The Farter from Sparta."

Sorry, but I'm sure someone will be along to help you out here soon.

Spaw

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From: Sorcha
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 05:23 PM

Slightly problematic; Nova Scotia==New Scotland==Scots Gaelic. Quebec==French. Not impossible, but difficult. I think George Seto is in NS...I will PM him.

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From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 05:32 PM

Read about Helen Creighton here. Since Sorcha sent a personal message to George, keep checking this thread until he checks in.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: School Project PLEASE READ...
From:
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 05:34 PM

Well, it will depend. There are song writers who are Acadian. They don't think of themselves as French.

I have a friend, Roger Stone, who is Acadian, Coté is his born sur-name. Another of the Acadian's who write songs are JP Cormier. Neither of them write in French, and neither are French speakers.

I know a few others who are French speaking Acadians.

What are you looking for? French poems/songs?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: School Project PLEASE READ...
From:
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 05:40 PM

Sorcha, it is interesting that you feel there is no French in Nova Scotia? Remember, the name of the area, long before the English sold it off as New Scotland, was Acadia. It had been settled by France since the mid 1600s. The English and French didn't have possession until a hundred years later. The Acadian settlers don't think of themselves as French. They may speak the language (somewhat) but like the Americans who don't think of themselves as English.

Spaw is incorrigible, and obviously didn't have anything useful to say. Wish he did.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: School Project PLEASE READ...
From: Sorcha
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 07:07 PM

George, I didn't say there weren't any, just that Scottish would be easier. Yea, I remember the Acadians, Evangaline was one but that is not exactly in French either, although it might qualify.

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From: GUEST,Dale
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 07:48 PM

George, tell them about Ronald Bourgeois, I don't know as much about him as you likely do. I know some of his music is Acadien in nature.

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From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 08:14 PM

You might also find this site interesting: Contemplator

Here's a nice bit of historical commentary

musical about evangeline with some songs near the bottom of the page

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: School Project PLEASE READ...
From: Burke
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 08:25 PM

I'm not really up on my Canadian geography, but check out Barachois. They are from Prince Edward Island.

I don't consider myself English, but I do write in English. Our English Dept. covers both English and American language and literature. It's hairsplitting for the one with the question to say Franco-phone Canadians aren't french poets or whatever.

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From: LR Mole
Date: 23 Oct 01 - 09:04 AM

"Acadian Driftwood" by The Band. It is to the Cajuns what "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" is to the American South. It's in their Library web page.

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From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Oct 01 - 02:04 PM

e mail sent

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From: GUEST,JohnB
Date: 24 Oct 01 - 12:45 PM

Try Lennie Gallant, he does a couple of french songs, he's from PEI too but it is close. Or Roch Voisine if you are into that sort of music, some of his stuff is not too bad. JohnB.

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From: Rollo
Date: 24 Oct 01 - 05:20 PM

A friend from nova scotia says in the area of cape breton there are still french speakers amongst the others.

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From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 24 Oct 01 - 05:45 PM

Still French-speakers in Nova Scotia. More in New Brunswick; I ate a lunch there near a children's playground and listened to the children playing. One would speak in English and get an answer in French and vice versa; most of they seemed familiar with both languages.
I have heard Acadien-French performers on Canadian radio, but I don't remember names. I looked in a CBC records catalogue but nearly all classical listings. Sorry.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: School Project PLEASE READ...
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 24 Oct 01 - 05:47 PM

Still French-speakers in Nova Scotia. More in New Brunswick; I ate a lunch there near a children's school playground and listened to the children. One would speak in English and get an answer in French and vice versa; most of they seemed familiar with both languages.
I have heard Acadien-French performers on Canadian radio, but I don't remember names. I looked in a CBC records catalogue but nearly all classical listings. Sorry.