Are you excited by the thought of poorly recorded Canadian folksongs?

[elanya]

I just ripped a 3 disc set of cds of folk music form all over canada. It's got everything from Inuit throat singing and an anthropological interview run through of a headdress doning song from the Kwakiutl to Newfie fishing songs, Ukranian tunes, French voayger songs and, excitingly for me, a bunch of tunes that my mother used to have on record when we were kids and I thought I would never be able to get in another format. Some of them are horrid, some are hilarious, some are awesome, and some a combination of the above.

So, if anyone would like to hear some traditional Canadian folk tunes... Native ones, or ones from a particular province, or songs of my youth, or whatever... lemme know :) I am happy to share them. The point of the compilation was to record culture, not to make money, so I can't possibly imagine that they would be mad about them being shared. *ptoui* on the record companies!

It's been a musical afternnon for me, as I ripped a bunch of my cds, and made a mixed CD for Julie, and other exciting music-related things :)

Comments

[elanya.livejournal.com]

Almost all the Maritimes one are, well, in think maritime accents. newfie, or heavy celtic. The clearest ones are all in french. but I can send you some, anyway :)

[longpig.livejournal.com]

This version of Gerry's rocks is weak. They don't even say that the dudes are from NB. :(

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