Welcome to the Gumboot Bloggeroo! You won't get many hits from the Top 40 here - more like misses from the Back 40. Proudly behind the times, I perform traditional and not-so-traditional music from the East Coast of Canada - songs and tunes, with harmonica, fiddle, guitar, piano, and whatever else is on hand. Check out the samples, the pictures, the information, the misinformation, the free advice, the second-hand opinions, and whatever else I end up dumping here ....

Library

Links to on-line articles, websites, audio & video clips, etc.  (The "~" is simply a reminder to myself that I've read or viewed the text in question).  The categorization is somewhat arbitrary and inconsistent, of course ....


Fiddle & Fiddlers


Cape Breton

 Donald Angus Beaton
Colin Boyd (Antigonish) ~
Colin Boyd
Elmer Briand ~
Elmer Briand
John Donald Cameron
Dan J. Campbell
Donald Campbell
John Campbell
John Campbell & the Cape Breton fiddle tradition by George Ruckert (2008) ~
John Campbell, Jerry Holland - reviews (2007) ~
Tena Campbell
Michael Coleman: A Cape Breton - Irish Connection ~
Joseph Cormier: bio. & field recordings
Joseph Cormier - review (2002) ~
Joseph Cormier
Joseph Cormier Obituary
Lee Cremo Speaks (1972) ~
Lee Cremo talks and plays.
Lee Cremo: short article & sample. ~
Lee Cremo: Paddy on the Turnpike
Timothy Ryan's Reel
'Arm of Gold' film - Lee Cremo - youtube ~
Interview With Winston 'Scotty' Fitzgerald
Angus Allan Gillis
Jerry Hollard: Fathers and Son (1988) ~
Willie Kennedy - review (2003) ~
Bill Lamey - Bringing it back home by Richard Brown (2001) ~
Paddy LeBlanc biography
Dan R. MacDonald biography
Our Uncle, Dan R. MacDonald From Talks with John Donald and John Allan Cameron (1990) ~
Dan R. MacDonald (adademic) J.C. McGann (2003) ~
Hugh A. MacDonald (Antigonish) bio. ~
Johnny Archie MacDonald
Little Mary MacDonald
John MacDougall: 33,300 songs and still writing by KAREN MAZURKEWICH (2006)
Music from the Dead: TheTune-Making of John MacDougall by Robert Macdonald (2009) (academic) ~
Ashley MacIsaac: Kate Dunlay's Review of Fine Thank You (1998) ~
A Little Visit with Ashley MacIsaac's Parents (1997) ~
Joe MacLean bio.
Donald MacLellan with Doug MacPhee - review (2003) ~
Marie MacLellan (pianist) interview ~
Buddy MacMaster - review 1 (2003) ~
Buddy MacMaster - review 2 (2010) ~
Buddy MacMaster - review (2000) ~
Buddy MacMaster: Godfather of CB Fiddling (CBC radio program)
Natalie MacMaster: Cape Breton - a Scottish Legacy by Peter Fairbairn (1998) ~
Natalie MacMaster; Learning from Buddy - radio interview
Morgan MacQuarrie - review (2011) ~
Morgan MacQuarrie - review 1 (2001) ~
Mi'kmaq Fiddlers (Cremo, Googoo, Prosper)
Theresa Morrison review (scroll down) ~
the-muise-family-collection: includes clips of various Boston fiddlers/musicians
REGIONALISM ON THE CELTIC FRINGE by GLENN GRAHAM  (2016) (academic)
A Visit with Wilfred Prosper, Eskasoni (1985) ~
Wilfred Prosper ~
Wilfred Prosper plays.
Wilfred Prosper: A Mi'kmaq Fiddler by Paul MacDonald ~
Cape Breton Fiddles (Otis Thomas) - 'Land & Sea' ~
Otis Tomas: Making Instruments & Tunes (1991)
Johnny Wilmot: Talk and Tunes (1985) ~
Cape Breton Fiddle Repertoire and Style by Kate Dunlay ~
Various CB Fiddlers - review (2007)
Various CB Fiddlers 2 - reviews (2010) (scroll down) ~
Various Cape Breton Fiddlers - reviews (2002) ~
Various CB Fiddlers: From a Far Shore - review (1999) (scroll down) ~
Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index
Cranford Publications (Cape Breton fiddle)
Cape Breton Live Radio
Early Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings
Cape Breton Fiddle Grooves (academic) (2008) ~
Cape Breton Fiddle: Repertoire & Style by Kate Dunlay (2002)
mycapebretonfiddlemusicproject (Dutch/English language site)
The Myth of the Vanishing Cape Breton Fiddler (academic) (2006) ~
The Cape Breton Fiddling Narrative: Innovation, Preservation, Dancing by Jessica Herdman (2008) (academic) ~
'Correctness' in Cape Breton Fiddle Music - Kate Dunlay (2008) ~
The Fiddle-burning Priest of Mabou by Jodi McDavid (academic) ~
Gaelic Music in Cape Breton: the Last Fifteen Years (no year or author given) ~
Museum of Canadian Music - recordings - some old CB fiddlers, among others
A New Book of Cape Breton Fiddle Tunes (review of Traditional Celtic Music of Cape Breton, 1987)
‘Old style’ Cape Breton fiddling: narrative, interstices, dancing by Jessica Herdman(2010)(academic)
Transnational Communities Through Global Tourism: Experiencing Gaelic Culture Through Music Practice on Cape Breton ... - 'preview' - by Kathleen Elizabeth Lavengood (academic) (2008) ~
Prince Edward Island

 “De par chez nous:” Fiddling Traditions and Acadian Identity on Prince Edward Island by Meghan Catherine Forsyth (2011) (academic) Prince Edward Island Fiddlers Society
The Fiddle Music of PEI - Introduction ~
The Great Fiddle Contests of 1926 (PEI) ~
Fiddling Tradition on PEI (academic) (1982) J.J. Hornby (note:  contains some transcripts of Island tunes in appendices) ~
Teaching "Trad": Fiddle Camp [PEI] (2011) ~
Bowing Down Home (UPEI site)  Highly recommended.

General Canadian
Acadian Accordian Music in South Eastern New Brunswick by Joel Chaisson (2011)
Fiddling - from Encyclopedia of Music in Canada by Anne Lederman; a thorough & descriptive overview of traditions - highly recommended! ~
Acadian Fiddle - site with sound & video clips, notes, etc.
Acadian Fiddling Traditions by Devon Leger ~
Big Jim: Clarence Langen, a New Brunswicker in Southern Arizona ~
George Wade & his Cornhuskers: Mason's Apron with Calls
Irish Music in New Brunswick by Bernie Coulahan ~
Don Messer ~
More Don Messer (2010) ~
More Don Messer 2 ~
More Don Messer 3  ~
More Don Messer 4 ~
Matilda Murdoch ~
Canadian "old-time" fiddling (2003) ~
Downeast Ceilidh (radio program)
The Folk Music of Anglophone New Brunswick by Don Marquis
Francis Sowish: Composer of Mouth of the Tobique & Grumbling Old Man? (2007) ~
An Analysis of a Jean Carignan Record by Miles Klassen (1974
"The Canadian Fiddlers"
Ontario Traditional Music Library
Roxane Young - String City - review (2008) ~
Gaspe Fiddling ~
Gaspe Fiddling - Erskine Morris
Back to the Sugar Camp
The Great Canadian Fiddle
The Northern Alberta Fiddle Project
Virtual Museum of Canadian Traditional Music
Western Swing Music Society (BC)


Aboriginal

Gilbert Anderson, Northern Alberta Metis Fiddler The Grandy Project: Grandy Fagnan, field recordings by Anne Lederman Metis Fiddling ~
Old Man's Table - Anne Lederman CD
"Old Native & Metis Fiddling in Manitoba"
Metis Fiddlers
Gwich'in Fiddlers
Medicine Fiddle (film, 1991) ~
Arnie Strynadka: the Uke-Cree Fiddler (2009) ~
Across Generations: Ruby John & her Musical Influences

Athabaskan Old-Time Fiddle Music:



Scotland

 James MacPherson: Fiddler/Outlaw ~
James MacPherson ~
Scotch Snap: the Big Picture (film, an hour & 15 min. long) ~
Niel Gow by Alastair Duncan (1998)
The Music of James Scott Skinner
Tobar an Dualchais field recordings of fiddle in Scotland
Reeling in the Strathspey: The Origins of Scotland's National Music by William Lamb (academic)
The Origins of the Strathspey: A Rebuttal by Michael Newton (2014)
Willie Hunter: write-up and recordings

Ireland

 Caoimhin Mac Aoidh on Regional Irish Fiddle Styles Two Donegal Fiddlers (review) 2012 ~
Traditional Music of Clare - Live Recordings
Paddy Glackin by Rob Adams (2003)
The_Northern_Fiddler.pdf by Allen Feldman
http://www.braccio.me/session/The_Northern_Fiddler.pdf
Sean McGuire: Master of the Irish Violin by Ken Perlman (1998) ~
Donegal Fiddle Music
Thomas Hardy & the fiddle (click "By Topic: Next" for more) ~
U.S.A.

 creole-fiddler-willie-durriseau-opelousas-legend/ New England Fiddles - film, includes Joseph Cormier
Northwest (U.S.) Fiddle Field Recordings
Old Time Fiddling ... Four Ozark Fiddlers by Allen Gage, ed.
Paul Gifford's Collection of Old-Time Fiddling, Dulcimer Playing, & Songs from Michigan & the Great Lakes Region
Michigan Fiddlers
Roots of American Fiddle Music
A Lecture on [American] Fiddle Music (scroll down the page)
Early Rural Black (American) Fiddlers
Unnamed Tunes (American)
Links to American fiddling sites
Why Old Time? (documentary)
Catskill NY Fiddler 1929
Mellie Dunham, Maine old-time fiddler 'bio-pic'
1930s square dance
Why Black Folks Don't Fiddle by Tony Thomas ~
Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier by Alan Jabbour
Sir Roger de Coverly/Virginia Reel (2007) ~
General

 Alan Lomax field recordings of fiddlers
Diddling & Fiddling by Rowan Piggott ~
Jigs, Reels & Hornpipes: A History of 'Traditional' Dance Tunes of Britain & Ireland by Celia Pendlebury (2015) (academic)
Nero & the Fiddle
British Library search Type in 'fiddle' for field recordings, etc.
Donna Hebert's 'hand-out' for new fiddlers (2008) ~
Interview with Mark Wilson by Kerry Blech (no date) ~
Finger Pressure - fiddle (2007) ~
Finger Pressure - fiddle (cont'd) (click "By Topic: Next" for more) ~
String Pedagogy Notebook
Calvin Sieb: Bow Techniques
Violinist in Balance
Different Strings, Different Fiddles (2007) ~
Baroque Violins
Identifying/Authenticating Violins
Tuning: fiddle/piano; tempered/just (2007) (click "By Topic: Next" for more) ~
stage3music  Thoughts about pitch (equal temperament vs. just, etc.) & other things.
Chris Vanddross, violin/cello maker - news report
The Violin Thief ~

'Sheet' Music & Recordings of Fiddle Tunes

Paul Cranford: Cape Breton Tunes
Cape Breton Fiddlers Association tunes
Paul Fackler's site - over 200 Cape Breton tunes transcribed by Paul Fackler
CB Session - Ottawa
Mike MacLean: tune transcriptions by Paul Cranford
Trad. Tracks Series - Troy MacGillivray
J. Scott Skinner
The Fiddle Music of PEI - Ken Perlman
thesession.org - tunes
Irish Traditional Music Archive
The Traditional Tune Archive
Traditional Tunebook
Prairie Mountain Fiddlers - Tunes
The Slippery-hill Web-site - recordings of tunes
Tony Ludiker's Free MP3s
The Fiddler's Companion
Rhode Island Music: Collections & Sites
ABC tune converter Concertina.net

Folkjam.org  - listing of jams, international


Harmonica


The Harmonica and Irish Traditional Music by Don Meade (2014) ~
Blow Your Blues Away
The Legendary DeFord Bailey (CD samples)
Little Walter (article & clips - scroll down) ~
first Blues (and other) harp recordings
How a Gang of Harmonica Geeks Saved the Soul of the Blues Harp
Industrial Espionage (harmonica history) by Daniel A. Gross (2014)
The Return of the Harmonica [decline & resurgence of quality instruments] by Ben Marks
Les Ross Sr: Finnish-American harmonica from Michigan

Tin Sandwich, Anyone - A History of the Harmonica:



Other Instruments

Piper Alex Currie, Frenchvale (CB)
Traditional Piano Accompaniment in Cape Breton (2013) by Chris McDonald ~
'Wild Archie' Plays the Bones (1974)
Doug MacPhee (piano) - review (2002) ~
Inuit Accordion Music (2000) ~
Courtney's 'Union Pipes' ~
Harry Hibbs site
Irish Minstrels & Musicians by Chief Francis O'Neill - excerpts
Scottish piper 1714 - image & commentary
Mouth Music (jews harps, etc.)
Recorder, Flageolet, Flute, Music Lessons, etc., in Colonial America (academic) by David Lasocki
Orlando Bracci: 'The Accordian King' from Windsor, Ontario ~
Irish piccolo blog


Songs & Singers

Angelo Dornan, New Brunswick
Amby Thomas, Cape Breton
Beaton Institute - songs in Gaelic, French, Mi'kmaq & English
Larry Gorman, PEI ~
MacEdward Leach & the Songs of Atlantic Canada
Hector Carmichael, a Maker of Songs (1974)
Rita MacNeil of Big Pond (1980)
Memories of Lillian Crewe Walsh
MacDougalls & Whittys & Songs (1979) ~
Searching for Cape Breton Folk Songs (1986) ~
Leo Aucoin, Acadian Traditional Singer (1993)
A Milling Frolic on the North Shore (1978)
Gaelic Songs & Singers from Cape Breton (Leach Collection)
Songs & Singers from Newfoundland (Leach Collection)
The Very Best of Stan Rogers - review (2011)
Kelly Russell Nfld (2008)
Anita Best Nfld (2002)

'The Star of Logy Bay' Nfld (2003)

Chuck & Albert; Cowboy Celtic - reviews (2011)

Ed McCurdy (2000) ~

Wade Hemsworth 1 (2002)
Wade Hemsworth 2 (2002)
Mac Beattie review (2006) ~

Songs of Canada (2005)
Songs From Three Provinces (2008)
Classic Canadian Songs - review (2006)

French Folk Songs in the Shadow of the Motor City (2007) ~
Reviews of CDs re: French folksongs in Windsor/Detroit area (2007) ~

Barry Lufts & Tim Rogers - Songs of the Iron Trail - review (2007)

Bill Miner in Song (2008)
Postscript to Bill Miner in Song (2008)
Bill Miner Songs (2008)

The Ballads of George J. Byers (2009)

The Donnellys Must Die - song & article (2011)

Folk Songs About the Titanic (2011)

From Talks with Matt Minglewood (1988)

Inuit Throat Singing; Evie Mark

Just Another Tune: Songs & their History
Cowboy Celtic by Rob Gibson (1998)

Sean-Nos Singing - A Bluffer's Guide by Anthony McCann (1998) ~

Joe Heaney: Interview Transcription & Repertoire by Fred MacCormick (Lomax/Seeger interview) (2000)

Lisa Null - From the Roots (autobiographical essay by singer & founder of Green Linnet)

The Flowers of the Forest by Steve McGrail (2003)

.....JustAnotherTune - Songs and Their History

Wisconsin Folksong Collection

Traditional Music Library - lyrics & all kinds of other musical things

evergreentrad.com: "Northwoods Songs"

WHAT WE SANG DOWN ON THE FARM: A FORGOTTEN MANUSCRIPT ON WESTERN CANADIAN SINGING TRADITIONS by David A.E. Spalding ~

Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music

INTERNET Song Collections and web sites.
[from Tim Radford, on mucat.org]
Max Hunter Folk Song Collection - Arkansas
        http://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/
Alan Lomax Recordings
        http://research.culturalequity.org/home-audio.jsp
Andy Turner's - Folk Song a Week
        http://afolksongaweek.wordpress.com/
Wolf Folklore Collection - Ozark Folk Songs
        http://web.lyon.edu/wolfcollection/ozarks.htm
Inishowen Songs Project (Ireland)
        http://www.itma.ie/inishowen/songs/a
British Library - Sounds
        http://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/
Jon Boden's - Folk Song a Day
        http://www.afolksongaday.com/
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library - Full English web site
        http://www.vwml.org.uk/vwml-home
EFDSS - Take Six Archive
        http://library.efdss.org/archives/
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads
        http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/ballads.htm
Wiltshire County - Alfred Williams Collection
        http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/folk_search.php
Shanties and Sailors Songs
        http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/shanty.html
A Treasury of Christmas Carols
        http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/index.htm
The Folklorist (Song Web site)
        http://trad.appspot.com/
Inishowen Traditional Singer Circle
        http://www.inishowensinging.ie/listen.html
The Ballad Index
        http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/BalladIndexTOC.html
Christmas Carol Lyrics
        http://www.lyricsondemand.com/christmascarols/0/index.html
English Broadside Ballad Index
        http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/ballad_project/index.asp
Anitra Sings Sea Chanteys: History, Background, Lyrics and Tunes
        http://www.anitra.net/chanteys/index.html#intro
The Yorkshire Garland Group = Yorkshire Folk Songs
        http://www.yorkshirefolksong.net/
Life and Remains of John Clare (Northampton Poet & Collector)
        http://www.munseys.com/disktwo/lfrem.htm#1_1_129
Yet Another Digital Tradition Page
        http://sniff.numachi.com/
Music Hall Songs
        http://www.trasksdad.com/MusicHall/MusicHall.html

The Child Ballad Collection
        http://members.chello.nl/r.vandijk2/
Songs of The Sea
        http://www.contemplator.com/sea/index.html
The Alfred Williams Heritage Society
        http://www.alfredwilliams.org.uk/
The James Madison Carpenter Collection Onlne Catalogue
        http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/carpenter/
Shanties of The Seven Seas and Beyond - 
        http://www.youtube.com/user/hultonclint
Musical Traditions Magazine
        http:///www.mustrad.org.uk/
Mudcat Forum and Access to Digital Tradition
        http://www.mudcat.org/threads.cfm
Tony Barrand's Morris, Sword & Clog videos
        http://www.bu.deu/dbin/dance/
SoundCloud - Share your Sounds (search by name or genre) 
        http://soundcloud.com
Shanty Wiki (Bob Walser - in development)
        http://bobwalser.com/shantywiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.HomePage

 worksongs site
Folklorists & Folklore

Anita Best: folklorist, musician (2001)

Helen Creighton (2004)
Helen Creighton's Legacy (2009)

""In The Wind" Album Liner Notes (By Bob Dylan)"

Edith Fowke & Traditional Music in Rural Ontario (2002)
Edith Fowke: Reflections (2002)
Fonds Edith Fowke (2002)
Edith Fowke Reassessed (2003)

Gaelic Cape Breton Step Dancing by John G. Gibson (preview)
GAELIC IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND by John Shaw (1987) (academic)



Alan Lomax (2002)
Alan Lomax Archive - collection on youtube
Alan Lomax: Association for Cultural Equity - audio recordings, videos, etc.

Kenneth Peacock, folklorist, collector (2001)
Kenneth Peacock in Newfoundland (2003)
Kenneth Peacock's Songs of the Newfoundland Outports (2006)


Heritage Music: A Primer (2009)

The Imagined Village - review (2009)
Fakesong in an Imagined Village? (2009)

Local Content at the Calgary Folk Festival (2009-10)

Gramophones, Virtual & Real (2005)

Musical Traditions Internet Magazine
The Living Tradition magazine

Secret Museum of the Air



Aboriginal (non-fiddle)

Some Inuit Music on CD (2005) ~
Cowboys & Indians: Putting the Indian into Cowboy Music (2001) ~
The "Louis Riel Song": A Perspective by Phillip J. Thomas (1993)

Cape Breton (non-music)

'Cape Breton Folk' by C.H. Farnham - Harper's Magazine; March,1886
Cape Breton's Magazine
Cape Breton (2001)
A Coal-Mining Heritage (2007)
From The Outer Hebrides to Cape Breton by Bill Lawson. Settlement; families.
Heart of Steel Sydney NS youtube
Song for the Causeway by Kate Beaton (2012)
Allan the Ridge MacDonald, Gaelic Poet: An Introduction to the Mabou Bards (1985)
Dawn Fraser, Writer Selections (1987) ~
Mae Wilcox, 98 - Poet from Big Lorraine (1992)
Donald Ross - A Poet in Baddeck (1994)
Trap-Fishing With Mike MacDougall (1977) ~
With Lottie Morrison from Gabarus (1985)
The Drowning of Murdoch MacDonald (1996) ~
Storytelling in Cape Breton (academic) R. Thurgood (1999) ~
Lloyd MacDonald's site: genealogy, photos, music & more


Canadiana
Who Built the Canadian Pacific Railway? Chinese Workers From Hoisan (2007)

Johnny V. (rocker) (2000) ~

Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860) - writer in Canada (2000) ~

The Memory Project: Home


Americana

Doc Watson at 18 (audio)
Blind Owl Wilson biography
Ernest Stoneman: The Unsung Father of Country Music
Ernest Stoneman ~
To Hear Your Banjo Play video
Pickin' & Trimmin' in a North Carolina Barbershop
Probe is Turning-On the People - whimsical selections of recordings
Native American Influence on the Blues ~
The Ballad of Geeshie & Elvie by John Jeremiah Sullivan ~

The Battle of the Little Bighorn
Casey Jones
The Zoot-suit and Style Warfare by Stuart Cosgrove


Australiana

Ned Kelly


Ireland-iana


Scotland-iana (there must be a word for this!)

Altavona, Fact & Fiction From My Life in the Highlands by Stuart Blackie (1882)
Obituary of Mary C. MacNiven - the 'Mairi" of 'Mairi's Wedding" (Lewis Bridal Song) (1997)
Persecution of 'Witches'

Englandiana (see above)

Me & William Palmer, the 19th Century Poisoner ~
English Folk Music
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Windsor, Ontario:  Musical & Other Connections

 The Brothers-in-Law - 'folk music' act
George "Wild Child" Butler - Blues harmonica-player
Tamia Marilyn Washington Hill - R&B singer
Garth Hudson - of The Band
Robert Johnson Performs in Windsor - mentioned half-way through Johnny Shines interview
Joe Konas - Rock guitarist
Killer Kowalski - professional wrestler
Wyndham Lewis - artist & author
Dan R. MacDonald - fiddler; composer of 'Trip to Windsor'
Alistair MacLeod - author
William O. Mitchell - author
Joyce Carol Oates - author
Jack Scott - Rocker
Skip Spence - of Moby Grape
Shania Twain: Windsor-born - Country Music star

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