[mplpost] Canada - A Folkie History?

[Currie, Robert]

Rosalee's post brought a couple more to mind.  I take it the "Marco Polo"
song she refers to is one of her own.  However, I highly recommend "The
Marco Polo Suite", an album written and produced by Saint John, New
Brunswick composer, musician and poet Jim Stewart.  It is a
beautifully-rendered set of pieces about this famous ship and the time long
past when New Brunswick was a centre of (wooden) ship-building excellence.

Jim is a list member; check out his webpage at
http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/stewart/

Also, the incident which provided the inspiration for Rosalee's song "The
Tidal Wave" is, I believe, the same wave which also inspired the
Newfoundland song "Great Big Sea Hove in Long Beach," from the which the
band Great Big Sea took their name.

For all that, Rosalee, where can I buy your CD?

Rob


-----Original Message-----
From: Rosalee Peppard [mailto:rosaleepeppard@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 11:57 AM
To: maplepost@icomm.ca
Subject: Re: [mplpost] Canada - A Folkie History?


Ok, Tom, can't let this one pass - Canadian Her/History is my passion.  So 
as Dolly Parton says: "Sometimes you just have to get out there and toot 
your own horn!"

I'm proudly adding my album, 'No Place Like Home' (released Sept.2001) to 
the Folkie History listing.  Actually it focuses on Canadian Her-story - 
celebrating a woman's perspective of events and daily living. In it my 
herstorical songs are pertinent as follows:

'The Sambro Light': circa 1760 - True story of birth & early practises of 
Canadian commerce & significance of lighthouses

'The Marco Polo': 1851+ - True story about New Brunswick made fastest ship 
in the world

'Evangeline': 1630's to 1755 - True story of L'Acadie & expulsion of the 
Acadians in NS etc.

'Rebecca's Lament'(Songs From the Heart - Short List 2000): circa 1899 - 
True story of how a NS farm wife coped by churning butter when her husband 
left for the Yukon Gold Rush in a time when women were not 'persons' in 
Canada

'The Spinning Wheel': circa 1930 - True story/comment of a fisherman's wife,

her role & viability in the NFLD inshore fishing industry

'The Tidal Wave': 1929 - A child's true account of the earthquake & tidal 
wave that struck the southwestern shore of NFLD, affecting 10,000 people and

devastating the fishing industry there for 10 years

'Greta's Hands' (Songs From the Heart - Short List 2001): 1951 - True story 
of a woman's battle with polio in the 1950's polio epidemic that ravaged 
Canada before the Salk vaccine (This song, based on my mother's story was 
picked up by the Ontario March of Dimes and added to their 50th Anniversary 
Commemorative Archives in 2001)

I also wrote a new song "Laura Secord" circa War of 1812: about Laura's 
situation, courage and lack of recognition up to the age of 85.  This song 
is not yet recorded but was debuted at Fiddles & Frets and performed at 
Flying Cloud in Dec. with Paul Mills.

Whew, after all that, we really need some chocolate!

Rosalee

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