I had an email from Joe Offer about a project I've been working on to digitize the Songs of the Newfoundland Outports. He asked me to relay my reply to him here. Here's what I had to say about his question concerning the availability of the CD-Rom project.
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Hi Joe

Yes indeed we are still working on it. Actually it's finished and we are hoping to release it very soon. It was a long time in the works but it's finally ready.

It includes the full text of all 517 songs in the three volumes plus the music script plus all the photos plus midi versions of each song. There are 268 songs that have the first verse from the singer recorded on the original field tapes. We also tried to include a full song from each contributor, there are 59 of those. Unfortunately when Peacock was first collecting there were no tape recorders so some of the songs were just collected on manuscript. Any song that is in the collection that was on the original field tapes has at least the first verse included.

Check back with be periodically and I'll keep you informed as to our progress. I'm waiting for Jim to return from a road trip and we're going to be sending it to press then.

Cheers
Don
don@donwalsh.com