The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #69645   Message #1182861
Posted By: Nerd
11-May-04 - 10:53 AM
Thread Name: Trad. Maritime VS. Trad. Celtic
Subject: RE: Trad. Maritime VS. Trad. Celtic
Maritime of course has more than one meaning. If you're talking strictly Maritime Canada (which by the way excludes Great Big Sea as Newfoundland is not part of the Maritimes) then in many ways Maritime music is a subset of Celtic music. But it also contains Acadian music with continental Latinate/French influences. So you can say it's a hybrid of Celtic, English and French musics native to Eastern Canada, or for simplicity you can say it's Celtic music with French and English influences.

Maritime also carries the meaning of seafaring music. This would include things like Norwegian shanties. I assume this isn't what you mean.