Listen to songs, music & stories. View photos of the people & places. Meet the singers & musicians from Ship Cove, Patrick’s Cove, St Bride’s, and Branch. This interactive map of the Cape Shore is a great way to start navigating your way around the outports of this short stretch of Newfoundland’s coastline.
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| ITMA Reference | 255731 |
| Creator | O'Hara, Aidan |
| Date | 1976 |
| Publisher | Irish Traditional Music Archive |
| Location | Cape St Mary's, Newfoundland, Canada |
| Subject | Newfoundland: Geography |
| Collection | Aidan O'Hara Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Extent | 1 digital image |
| Copyright | Aidan O'Hara |
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Cock-a-doodle-doo, song (One morning after breakfast taking a bit of the walk …) A typed transcript based on Aidan O'Hara's field recording, with annotations and corrections by the collector.
| Creator | O'Hara, Aidan |
| Date | 4 October 1975 |
| Publisher | Irish Traditional Music Archive |
| Location | Branch, St Mary's Bay, Newfoundland, Canada |
| Subject | Newfoundland: Singing in English |
| Language | English |
| Collection | Aidan O'Hara Collection |
| Type | Text |
| Extent | 1 p. |
| Copyright | Aidan O'Hara |
| Roud Number | 3464 |
| View in ITMA catalogue: | Go to catalogue |
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Albert Roche (seated with back to the camera) and Dermot Roche (seated, looking left) listen to John Joe English perform (seated at the table).
| ITMA Reference | 255524 |
| Creator | O'Hara, Aidan |
| Date | 1975 |
| Publisher | Irish Traditional Music Archive |
| Location | Branch, St Mary's Bay, Newfoundland, Canada |
| Subject | Newfoundland: Singing in English |
| Collection | Aidan O'Hara Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Extent | 1 digital image |
| Copyright | Aidan O'Hara |
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The cottage by the sea, song (To a little seaside village came a youth one summer's day …) A typed transcript based on Aidan O'Hara's field recording, with annotations and corrections by the collector.
| Creator | O'Hara, Aidan |
| Date | 5 Augist 1978 |
| Publisher | Irish Traditional Music Archive |
| Location | Branch, St Mary's Bay, Newfoundland, Canada |
| Subject | Newfoundland: Singing in English |
| Language | English |
| Collection | Aidan O'Hara Collection |
| Type | Text |
| Extent | 1 p. |
| Copyright | Aidan O'Hara |
| Roud Number | 4327 |
| View in ITMA catalogue: | Go to catalogue |
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![Emile Benoit, Bride and Patsy Judge, and Hugh Rowlings at the Judge's in St John's, Newfoundland / [unidentified photographer]](https://images.itma.ie/imager/images_itma_ie/NewfoundlandExhibition/255525_98a7f61c16bd472551bf72344845a6ee.jpg)
Bride (sitting) and Patsy Judge (right) with Song collector Hugh ‘Hoodie’ Rowlings (standing) and legendary Port au Port Peninsula fiddler Émile Benoît (left). The group were photographed in folklorist Kenneth Goldstein's house in St John's during the 1977 or '78 Folk Festival in Bannerman Park.
| ITMA Reference | 255525 |
| Creator | Unidentified photographer |
| Contributor | Rowlings, Hugh |
| Date | [August 1977/78] |
| Publisher | Irish Traditional Music Archive |
| Location | Kenneth Goldstein's house, St John's, Newfoundland |
| Subject | Newfoundland: Singing in English ; Newfoundland: Instrumental Music |
| Collection | Aidan O'Hara Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Extent | 1 digital image |
| Copyright | Hugh Rowlings |
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![Emile Benoit, Bride and Patsy Judge, and Hugh Rowlings at the Judge's in St John's, Newfoundland / [unidentified photographer]](https://images.itma.ie/imager/images_itma_ie/NewfoundlandExhibition/255525_de9811e73d1effbffc3631ee98b01780.jpg)