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Thread #76127   Message #1348036
Posted By: Brían
05-Dec-04 - 12:07 PM
Thread Name: looking for celtic songs in French
Subject: RE: looking for celtic songs in French
oops. JOHNNY WILL YOU MARRY ME? on a recording. La Bottine Souriante does a lot of her songs as well as a few Scottish and Irish tunes in their repetoire. Their are many people of Irish ancestry in Quebec and their policies and attitude toward the orphans of people who died in the crossing or quarrantines like Grosse Isle permitted them to keep their Irish names although understandably, most of their descendents speak French as a first language. I believe mary Travers was Acadian from New Brunswick who migrated to Montreal in the 1930's.

Brían