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

[fritzleonhardt.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind getting some of those especially ones that are in English and fairly easy to understand. Even better if they are from the Maritimes. They would be used to help my classes to listen to English so they can understand it better.

[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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