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Thread #119614 Message #2597464
Posted By: JedMarum
25-Mar-09 - 09:22 PM
Thread Name: Canadian Folk Music
Subject: RE: Canadian Folk Music
They must rotate the music. Of course it's been years since I was there and they played the lovely folk-style songs and tunes. I was expecting them to play Stan Rogers, actually - so I am not surprised they played Stan when breezy was there.
I know that my English immigrant family (my mother's mother's side) came to Canada first - then to the textile mills of Fall River MA. Her father's side came from Scotland and I think they also had family in Canada. My father's side, all from Ireland came through New York and Boston.
But there is clearly a connection of my family and many families from the area where I was born - to Canada. I grew up as a kid just thinking that Canada was just a little farther north then Maine! There were as many Canadians at the campgrounds as there were folks from New York or Vermont, it always seemed to me. Living in Texas, that "closeness" I felt in New England is just not there. But I still feel the pull of the music.