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In 1978, Aidan O’Hara returned to the Cape Shore in the company of folklorist and song scholar Kenneth S Goldstein and a young folklore student, Hugh “Hoodie” Rowlings. With the support of a Canada Council grant, they revisited many of the people whom Aidan had encountered on previous visits to the Cape Shore. They used a professional quality microphone and Nagra reel-to-reel recording machine to make full-track recordings. Most of their recording took place in quiet settings rather than the lively times that feature in Aidan O’Hara’s other recordings.
