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    A Grand Time: A Cape Shore Sampler

    A sampler of songs, music, and stories recorded in the Cape Shore between 1974 and 1978

    This widely varied collection features:

    • emigration songs and songs of the sea
    • songs brought over from old world homes and songs composed by Newfoundlanders
    • songs about murder and songs for comic relief

    The voices featured in the playlist include singers and musicians who are well-known exponents of Newfoundland’s oral traditions, but also individuals who normally are only heard in their own localities.

    • 63 Tracks
    • • Now Playing:

    Banna's banks / Caroline Brennan

    2 May 1976

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    • Banna's banks / Caroline Brennan

    • The barque in the harbour / John Hennessy

    • Bells of Shandon / Ellen Emma Power

    • The Blackwater side / Caroline Brennan

    • The bleach of Strathblane / Mike McGrath

    • The bonny bunch of roses / Anthony Power

    • The bonny bunch of roses / Tom Murphy & Minnie Murphy

    • The bonny hills of Scotland / Eta Nash

    • The brave volunteer / Henry Campbell

    • Brennan on the moor / Patsy Judge

    • The broken-hearted milkman / Tom Murphy

    • Bungle Rye / Anthony Power

    • Cock-a-doodle-doo / Frankie Nash

    • Colonna's lone shore / Denis McGrath

    • Conversation about music for dancing and types of dances / Patsy Judge & Bride Judge

    • The cottage by the sea / Jack Mooney

    • The days of the week / Stan McGrath

    • Dear old Newfoundland / Gerald Campbell

    • The dewy dells of Yarrow / John Joe English

    • Donald Monroe / Albert Roche

    • Down by the riverside / Minnie Murphy

    • The drunken captain / Dermot Roche

    • The emigrant from Newfoundland / Gerald Campbell

    • Fain Waterloo / Caroline Brennan

    • The fair Fanny Moore / Patsy Judge

    • Fireman's story of a brave volunteer, recitation / John Joe English

    • The forest was covered in bushes / Patsy Judge

    • The gambling man / Jack Mooney

    • Georges Banks / Henry Campbell & Gerald Campbell

    • The girl who slighted me / Gerald Campbell

    • The girls from Newfoundland / Henry Nash

    • Golden Bay / Anthony Power

    • The hills of Glenswilly / Bernard Nash

    • Thomas Trim / Gerald Campbell

    • In Yorkshire city / Bride Judge

    • India's burning shore / Tom Murphy & Minnie Murphy

    • The Irish colleen / Jack Mooney

    • Jack was a sailor on board a whaler / Caroline Brennan

    • The lady in the east / Bride Judge

    • Lobster salad (Paddy Kelly's dream), recitation / John Joe English

    • Lonely Banna strand / Frankie Nash

    • The lovely Irish rose / Eta Nash

    • Mackenzie's dream / John Joe English

    • Me and me chum Johnny Riley / Frankie Nash

    • Morrissey and the Russian bear, song / Denis McGrath, singing in English

    • The mountains of Mourne / Frankie Nash & Stephanie Nash

    • My boy Willie / John Joe English

    • The northeast gale / Denis McGrath

    • Only a face in the firelight / Petchie Nash & Frankie Nash

    • Paddy in New York / John Joe English

    • Patrick Reilly / Emma Doyle

    • Pinto / Denis Nash

    • The plains of Easter Snow / James Connors

    • Quigley and Picco / Bernard Nash ; Tom Murphy

    • The schooner Annie / Caroline Brennan

    • The schooner Mary Ann / Mike McGrath

    • The scolding wife / Caroline Brennan

    • The shores of Grand Lake / Frankie Nash

    • Siúl a ghrá / Ellen Emma Power

    • This is east / Frankie Nash

    • The true lovers' conversation / Henry Campbell

    • Untitled singles / Gerald Campbell, accordion

    • Just before the battle, mother / Ellen Emma Power

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