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Folk Songs Of Ontario - Folk Songs of Ontario / Various Music CD

Folk Songs Of Ontario - Folk Songs of Ontario / Various Music CD

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This 1958 recording by Edith Fulton Fowke is a collection of folksongs from the province of Ontario sung by a myriad of traditional singers. Until Fowke began collecting these in the 1950's, most had never been heard by a general audience. Though a large portion of the songs on this recording come from the Irish-Canadians of the Peterborough region, many other songs trace their influence back to American and British roots. These stirring compositions cover everything from lumber-jacking to murdering to the married life.

Tracklist:

  1. The Poor Little Girls From Ontario
  2. The Banks Of The Don
  3. Johnson's Hotel
  4. The Murder Of F.C. Benwell
  5. The Murder Of Maggie Howie
  6. The Railroad Bay
  7. The Hobo's Grave
  8. The Little Indian Maid
  9. The Indian's Lament: An Indian Sat In His Little Bark Canoe
  10. Sally Greer
  11. The Twelfth Of July
  12. The Weaver
  13. The Golden Vanity (Child No.286)
  14. A Fair Maid Walked In Her Father's Garden
  15. In Bristol There Lived A Fair Lady, In Bristol There Lived A Fair Maiden
  16. How Cold These Winds Do Blow, The Wintry Winds
  17. Mary Of The Wild Moor
  18. The Bold Privateer
  19. General Wolfe
  20. What Is The Life Of A Man Any More Than The Leaves?

UPC: 093070400528
Label: Folkways Records
Release Date: 5.30.12
Format: CD

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