SONGS & STORIES FROM THE HELEN CREIGHTON COLLECTION, by VARIOUS

SONGS & STORIES FROM THE HELEN CREIGHTON COLLECTION

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1.	Ko'jua--Peter Michaels 00:56	buy track
2.	Le Gouveneur--Thomas Doucet 02:28	buy track
3.	Cruel Mother--Nina Bartley Finn 04:01	buy track
4.	Big John McNeil & Maid Behind The Plough--Kenneth Faulkner 01:47	buy track
5.	I've Got A Home--Children From The Nova Scotia Home For Coloured Children 02:19	buy track
6.	An Teid Thu Leam, A Righinn Og—Rev. J.D. Nelson MacDonald 02:23	buy track
7.	Krank, Krank Bin Ich--Mrs. Norman Veinotte 00:41	buy track
8.	Marrow Bones--Angelo Dornan 02:10	buy track
9.	Banks Of Sweet Dundee--Walter Roast 00:55	buy track
10.	Mary L. MacKay--Edmund Henneberry 01:02	buy track
11.	The Wreck Of The John Harvey--John Guptill 05:11	buy track
12.	Midsummer Night (Juhannus)--Anna Palojeimo 01:47	buy track
13.	Two Tunes--Solomon Francis 03:20	buy track
14.	The Bear Den--Peter Michaels 05:21	buy track
15.	Le Matin Quand Je Me Leve—Thomas Doucet & Mrs. Moses Chiasson & Peter Chiasson 02:12	buy track
16.	Lord Loval--Lillian Ritchie 01:43	buy track
17.	St. Anne's Reel--Melina Richard 00:54	buy track
18.	They Shall Be Mine ---Children From The Nova Scotia Home For Coloured Children of Preston 01:57	buy track
19.	Gaelic Dance Song—Rev. J.D. Nelson MacDonald 00:33	buy track
20.	Oh, I used ta know a lotta stories!--Richard Hartlan 02:56	buy track
21.	The Boys Of The Island--Joseph Hyson 01:37	buy track
22.	Saladin's Crew--Edmund Henneberry 03:23	buy track
23.	McCarthy's Song--Amos Jollimore 02:46	buy track
24.	The Jenny Saviour—John Guptill 02:32	buy track
25.	Det Var En Lordag Aften—Annecke Deichmann 04:08	buy track
26.	Mi’kmaw Hymn—Mrs. Denny 02:05	buy track

credits

released October 11, 2022

Recorded by Helen Creighton in Maritime Canada
between 1943 & 1961
Compiled with notes by Dylan Jewers 2020-2022
Produced by Dylan Jewers
Audio restoration by Joel Waddell
Research assistance by Clary Croft
Cover Design by Eric Stephen Martin

THIS ALBUM WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT
THE PUBLIC ARCHIVES OF NOVA SCOTIA &
THE HELEN CREIGHTON FOLKLORE SOCIETY

Dylan Jewers would like to thank Creighton Trustee Mickie Zinck for allowing this material to be presented to the public.

Dylan Jewers would like to thank Smithsonian Folkways for giving their blessing in the the album cover design, which is a direct influence from the company's album designs from the 1950s and 1960s. Jewers would also like to thank Smithsonian Folkways for their encouragement of this project.

Dylan Jewers would finally like to give a very special thank you to the distinguished members of the Mi'kmaw Nation who gave their blessings to showcase the wonderful Indigenous material found in the collection;
Roger Lewis (Curator of Mi'kmaq Cultural Heritage, NS)
Chief Dan Paul (Nova Scotia)
Chief George Ginnish (New Brunswick)
Graham Marshall (drummer, singer, and tradition bearer, Membertou)
Alan Syliboy (Artist, musician, NS)

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