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Concert: Angele Arsenault and Les Danseurs du St. Laurent
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Description
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Item consists of performance by Angele Arsenault accompanied by Les Danseurs de St.Laurent. Includes "P.E.I.O.", her song about growing up in P.E.I. (to the tune of "Old MacDonald Had A Farm"), followed by "Toc-toc, Toc-toc-toc-toc", a song she wrote for TVOntario and "I Want To Leave My Name". She nexts sings "L'Homme et la femme", and includes a commentary on how women are viewed and treated in society. Her next song, "Le monde de par chez nous," is self-composed and discusses the confusion with Acadian last names, sung in French, no title is provided. Written by Angele Arsenault one week prior, she also performs a song with a serious meaning "Women are Beggers", raises issues of women begging for equality, freedom, humanity, children and the poor. This is followed by a song made up of words of Mi'Kmaq sounds, "Vishten" (arr. by her father, Arthur Arsenault) which is performed in both French and English. Angele Arsenault concludes with a French song entitled "Maman, Maman". Les Danseurs du St. Laurent begin with instrumental performance, with Philip Brueanu on accordion and Yvan Brault on piano. Performance of "Les Cautin?" from the Vie Saint Catherine Regio, instruments include accordion and piano followed by a song and dance "La Plus Belle de Sairent". Continued with "La Caderie de Whisky" from the lower Saint Laurent region. Each geographic region has its own style of dance, this dance is based on the sailors who sailed the seven seas; a melody of jigs called "Les Jig des Gars et Les Jig des Filles, Les Jig Tout Monde". The next performance, French vocals (French) no titled given. Phillip Brueanu plays a march from 1900 on the small accordion. Dance performance from the Lac Saint Jean region called "Le Brandy du Lac Saint Jean" accompanied by fiddler Jean Carignan. From the same Lac Saint Jean region comes a dance performance tittled "L' Aurais la Neuf" followed by "La Caduses" which is a form of weaving. From the Montreal area after the first world war, presents a performance entitled "Les Waltz de Montreal?" followed by a performance from the north west part of Quebec, the Pontiac region (lumber jack) called the "Irish Jig", followed by the final dance and musical performance titled "La Belle Catherine" from the eastern Quebec area and a good bye and thank you song.
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1/4" reel audio tape
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Fonds
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Mariposa Folk Foundation fonds (F0511)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:72200
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Instruments as Voice substitutes with Mike Seeger
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Item consists of audio recording of Mike Seeger hosting a workshop on instruments used to substitute vocals. Includes John Wright performing "The Maid Behind the Bar", Mike Seeger performing "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down", Ken Bloom performing a solo clarinet piece in a New Orleans tradition and demonstrating the bottleneck blues guitar with vocal accompaniment, John Wright performing a Jew's harp solo and explaining different methods of playing the instrument around the world and Patrick Judge performing a a few traditional "pipe songs".
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1/4" reel audio tape
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Fonds
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Mariposa Folk Foundation fonds (F0511)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:72196
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Ceilidh
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Item consists of an audio recording of a ceildh held at the 1975 Mariposa Festival. Includes performances by Tommy Makem, Owen McBride, Maggi Peirce, Boys of the Lough (including Cahil McConnell and David Jones). All play "The Dingle Regatta" (trad.). Next Tommy Makem performs "The Nightingale" (trad.), Owen McBride performs "Finnegan's Wake" (trad.), David Jones performs "Flying Cloud" (trad.), The Boys of the Lough perform an instrumental piece "Farewell to Ireland" (trad.), Maggi Peirce performs a song "Paddy McGinty's Goat" (Val Doonican). Members of the audience shout out songs, including "Zoological Gardens", but the group performs "Wild Mountain Thyme / Will You Go Lassie, Go" (trad.), "Wild Rover" (trad.). Then David Jones sings "Young Edwin In The Lowlands". The Boys of the Lough then play some reels (not identified). Maggi Peirce then leads a recitation, "The Irish Schoolmaster" (James A. Sidney), which is cut off suddenly before the final verse. The recording picks up again with banter with the audience leading up to a performance of his song "My Father Loves Nikita Kruschev" and then The Boys of The Lough perform a series of reels to lead out the concert, with Makem acknowledging the Frank McArthur (?), a Newfoundland step-dancer. It is assumed that McArthur danced during the last song.
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1/4" reel audio tape
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Fonds
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Mariposa Folk Foundation fonds (F0511)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:72194
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Hoop Dancers
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Item consists of audio recording of a a concert with The Saddleback Family performing traditional "welcome" song followed by "The Warm Up of the Grass Dance" aka "The War Dance", "The Cree Chicken Dance", "The Red Light Dance" aka "The Stop Dance", "The Shawl(?) Dance", "The Eagle Dance" performed by George Saddleback, and Jerry Saddleback demonstrating the "Hoop Dance".
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1/4" reel audio tape
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Fonds
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Mariposa Folk Foundation fonds (F0511)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:72166
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Classic Ragtime to Early Jazz with Ken Whiteley
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Item consists of audio recording Ken Whiteley hosting a workshop about ragtime and early jazz music beginning with John Arpin performing "The Mississippi Rag" (William H. Krell), Larry Johnson performing "How Long has that Evening Train Been Gone?" aka "The How-Long Blues" (Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell), Sam Chatmon performing "Hold it on the Bottom(?)" and "Dinah" (Harry Akst), Kate McGarrigle (joined by Anna McGarrigle) performing "Oh Papa, Blues" (Ma Rainey), followed by the whole group performing a jazz piece with the audience providing the percussion. Also consists of Original Sloth Band performing "Papa De-Da-Da" (Clarence Williams), Steve Goodman performing "Lady Be Good" (George and Ira Gershwin), Ken Bloom performing "Nagasaki" (Freddy Taylor) in a similar style to the version by Django Reinhardt, John Arpin performing "Handful of Keys" (Fats Waller), Larry Johnson? performing "Charley Stone", Sam Chatmon performing "Fishin' Blues" (Henry Thomas) and "Goin' 'round the Mountain" (parody of "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain"), Kate McGarrigle performing "Rockin' Chair" (Hoagy Carmichael), an unknown performer singing "A Ballad for Red Allen" and The Original Sloth Band performing "(Listen to the) Rhythm King" (Coon Sanders Nighthawks Orchestra) and "Right or Wrong" (Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan), a solo clarinet performance followed by a question and answer period with John Arpin explaining the difference between rag time and honky tonk piano. Also includes the entire group performing "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" (trad.) and "Ain't She Sweet?" (Milton Ager (music) and Jack Yellen (lyrics).
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1/4" reel audio tape
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Fonds
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Mariposa Folk Foundation fonds (F0511)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:72164
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Making Music Middle Eastern Style
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Consists of audio recording of part of a workshop about how to make Middle Eastern music hosted by Ken Bloom. This recording features the group performing an instrumental " Çiftetelli" (belly dancing) song followed by some explanation of how Middle Eastern orchestras work and performance of a Turkish instrumental piece and finishing with a Turkish belly dancing number.
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1/4" reel audio tape
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Fonds
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Mariposa Folk Foundation fonds (F0511)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:61308
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Folk Concert : Chris Rawlings
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Item consists of a concert featuring Chris Rawlings and Gilles Losier performing "Soup du Jour", "Butterfly Children", a song about Henry Hudson, Losier performing a traditional canoeing song (with Rawlings on the recorder), Rawlings performing "Golden Rocket" (Hank Snow), "The Log Driver's Waltz" (Wade Hemsworth) (with accompaniment from Losier), "Chibougamau Boogaloo" and "The Pearl River Turnaround".
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1/4" reel audio tape
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Fonds
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Mariposa Folk Foundation fonds (F0511)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:61271
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Workshop : Islamic Music
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Item consists of a recording of the Islamic Music Workshop, hosted by Leigh Cline, featuring George Sawa on qanun, Ebrahim Eleish and Hannah(?) on drums, who together perform two song suites. One is titled "My Love". Next there is a performance by a Arabic Folklore Dance Group who perform four dances, introduced by Abraham (last name unknown). The troup are accompanied by recordings of songs by Fairuz (not present at festival) including "The Dance of Lebanon", "Our Sailors Are Coming", "The Hunters are Coming" and "The Stumbling of Your Feet". Next Leigh Cline introduces two Turkish performers, Ahmet [Candan?] on saz (a long-necked lute) and darbuka (a drum) Mahmet [Ali Ulatash?] on zurna (a wind instrument), who perform several instrumental folk songs from Turkey. Next all the workshop performers play a dance style Çiftetelli, or a belly dance song.
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1/4" reel audio tape
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Fonds
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Mariposa Folk Foundation fonds (F0511)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:61268
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Workshop : Slide Guitar with John Hammond and Dave Essig
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Consists of audio recording of slide guitar workshop with John Hammond and Dave Essig performing "Midnight Lover" (?) and "Hand Me Down My Walking Cane" (trad.). They also answer questions from the audience and then Essig sings "Ain't it Grand to be a Christian" (Blind Willie McTell) and Hammond then performs "I Can't Be Satisfied" (Muddy Waters). Also consists of Essig performing "Cannonball Blues" (Leslie Riddle), Hammond performing "T'aint Long Fore Day", aka "Big Star Falling" (Blind Willie McTell), Essig performing "Mean Old World" (trad.), Hammond performing "Terrapan Blues" followed by a period of taking questions from the audience. Essig resumes by performing "Come on in my kitchen" (Robert Johnson), followed by Hammond performing "Blues walked in" (?), Essig performing a combination of "Jailbait" and "Jubilee" and Hammond concluding with "Hellhound on my trail" (Robert Johnson).
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1/4" reel audio tape
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Fonds
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Mariposa Folk Foundation fonds (F0511)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:61264
