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10 Oct 02 - 01:58 AM (#800129) Subject: Canadian, Maritime Province Songbooks From: GUEST,Chris I'm wondering if anyone out there has any knowledge of any Maritime Province or Canadian traditional folksong books. I play in a band carneyscorner.com/Dockside.html that does alot of this music and I'm always looking for more material. Any help would be much appreciated. Chris |
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10 Oct 02 - 03:42 AM (#800150) Subject: RE: Canadian, Maritime Province Songbooks From: weerover Penguin Book of Canadian folksongs (published by Penguin, I think) |
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10 Oct 02 - 04:45 AM (#800163) Subject: RE: Canadian, Maritime Province Songbooks From: Susan of DT Helen Creighton has several collections: Folksongs From Southern New Brunswick Songs and Ballads from Naova Scotia Maritime Folk Songs and others Edith Fowke Lumbering Songs from the Northern Woods Folk Songs of Canada Folk Songs of Quebec Traditional Singers and Songs of Ontario MacEdward Leach Folk Ballads & Songs of the Lower Labrador Coast Maud Karpeles Folk-Songs from Newfoundland |
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10 Oct 02 - 09:43 AM (#800296) Subject: RE: Canadian, Maritime Province Songbooks From: Anglo 3 volumes of Somgs From the Newfoundland Outports by Kenneth Peacock. A lot of this stuff (probably this, and certainly some of the Creighton) is available through the National Museum of Canada in Ottawa. |
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10 Oct 02 - 03:40 PM (#800561) Subject: RE: Canadian, Maritime Province Songbooks From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Chris, Hi we have recently seen a reprint of Folksongs of the MAritimes. IT is edited by Kaye Pottie and Vernon Ellis, both of whom are famous in the regional musical circles. The book is published by Formac Publishing in both paper and "boards"(?). ISBN = 0-88780-200-1 for the paper, which may be the ONLY one currently in print. There was a mention of a Teacher's Guide as well. There is a web-site at |
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10 Oct 02 - 03:48 PM (#800564) Subject: RE: Canadian, Maritime Province Songbooks From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Oh yes, here is the back cover blurb The Maritime provinces have a rich heritage of folksongs The regsion's mix of cultures andpeople includes Scottish, Irish, English, French, German and Afro-American. Seafaring, logging, fishing and farming are long established and well reflected in the folksong traditions. So are songs of courtship and love, tragedy, voyages and adventure.
This book is based on the collections of Helen Creighton and other distinguished Maritime folklorists. Authors Kaye Pottie and Vernon Ellis reviewed thousands of folksongs in these collections to cull the selection included in this book. Many are published here for the first time. |
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10 Oct 02 - 03:55 PM (#800567) Subject: RE: Canadian, Maritime Province Songbooks From: Nerd Sandy (aka Edward D.) Ives has two books of folksongs from PEI. The second of them, I believe, comes with a CD of field recordings. |
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10 Oct 02 - 05:45 PM (#800638) Subject: RE: Canadian, Maritime Province Songbooks From: John MacKenzie I've got a Leonard Cohen song book, and I got a Joni Mitchell song book. Do they count? Seriously though folks I've also got Folk songs of Canada from 1954, by the Waterloo Music Co. of Waterloo Ontario. failte.....Giok |
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11 Oct 02 - 12:28 PM (#801165) Subject: RE: Canadian, Maritime Province Songbooks From: Jack Lewin Hi chris, I write song lyrics many of wihch are of maritime themes, (I am from the east coast of Canada) would you be interested in seeing some of my lyrics, I just started writing about a year ago and I am looking for someone to perform and arrange my work jack |
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11 Oct 02 - 12:37 PM (#801175) Subject: RE: Canadian, Maritime Province Songbooks From: GUEST I don"t think Newfoundland is actually a "Maritime " Province..is it ? |
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17 Oct 02 - 08:58 PM (#805722) Subject: RE: Canadian, Maritime Province Songbooks From: GUEST,Chris Wow!!! What a responce. Thank you all! Jack, I'm always interested in original material. I wrote many of the songs on my bands recent CD. Check out the bands web site and email me your lyrics and music through there if you want to. Dockside Once again thanks to all. I am going out of town next week so I will check out all the info when I get back Chris |
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18 Oct 02 - 08:28 PM (#806463) Subject: RE: Canadian, Maritime Province Songbooks From: michaelr Hi Chris, where ya goin'? Michael |
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19 Oct 02 - 08:47 AM (#806617) Subject: RE: Canadian, Maritime Province Songbooks From: Vinland Chris, You might check out my web site (www.vinlandmusic.ca). I publish piano/ vocal/ guitar arrangements of Newfoundland and Labrador music. I also collect and research music of this place, so can often help you track down a song. Newfoundland isn't technically a Maritime province (the term was coined before we joined Canada in 1949) though we're often lumped in with the others. The correct term is "Atlantic Provinces". EW |
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19 Oct 02 - 05:13 PM (#806868) Subject: RE: Canadian, Maritime Province Songbooks From: pastorpest We will be a long time exhausting Maritime folk songs in print (and out of print). The mention of Helen Creighton and Edith Fowke already listed is important. Also look for "Canadian Vibrations" edited by Edith Fowke and published in 1972 by Macmillan in Canada. Canadian vibrations includes old songs and songs through the 1960's. Allister MacGillvary has pubished two excellent large anthologies "The Cape Breton Song Collection" and "The Nova Scotia Song Collection" Sea-Cape Music Ltd. They can be purchased from Allister MacGillvary's own web-site. "Catch Ahold of This One..." edited by Eric West are Newfoundland and Labrador collections of at least two and possibly three volumes published by Vinland Music. "Favourite Songs of Newfoundland" edited by Alan Mills is another. I know I have seen collections of songs for both Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick but my mind is not coming up with titles. Good luck with the song search! JB |
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20 Oct 02 - 01:13 AM (#807043) Subject: RE: Canadian, Maritime Province Songbooks From: raredance "Sea Songs and Ballads from Nineteenth Century Nova Scotia" edited by Edith Fowke (1981 Folklorica Press) "Old-Time Songs and Poetry of Newfoundalnd" Gerald S Doyle; 4th Edition 1966 (the earliest edition is 1927, I don't know if there have been any since 1966) Gerald S Doyle Limited, St John's Newfoundland. "We'll Rant and We'll Roar: More All Timne Favorite Songs of Newfoundland Volume 2" edited by Lyle Drake. 2000 Tilt Hill PUblishing, Torbay, NF. There's also a Volume 1 "Come A Singing! Canadian Folk-Songs" Barbeau, Lismer & Bourinot. 1947 (reprinted 1959) National Museum of Canada, Bulletin No 107, Ottawa "And Now the Fields Are Green, A Collection of Coal Mining Songs in Canada" John C O'Donnell. 1992 University College of Ca[pe Breton Press, Sydney, NS "Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland" Elisabeth Bristol Greenleaf. 1933, Harvard University Press (reprint ed 1968, Folklore Associates, Hatboro, PA rich r |