Showing 54 results

Archival description
Canada: Dance With digital objects
Print preview View:

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Cassette 29 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 14

The fox and the hare [The man with six wives] ; Speech [AOH notes: A comical song Carrie got it from old Esther Tobin, wife of Joe Power, parents of Anthony Power’s. She talks about the old Irishmen, the first in Ship Cove that sang songs and played music. When she was born and teaching; talks about her father and grandmother who sang this next song] / Caroline Brennan, singing in English, speech in English

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Cassette 29 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 15

Speech [AOH notes: Kenny asks her how old she is. She says she was 86 about a month ago (July 1978). She was born in July 1892). Follows with talk about her education. Her father couldn’t sing or dance. His mother was Irish & she was a good singer and dancer. Her favourite song was Patrick Sheehan] / Caroline Brennan, speech in English

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Cassette 29 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 17

The shadow of the pines, song ; Speech [AOH notes: Tells where she got it—John Hennessy’s mother. Talks on ‘times’ on the Cape Shore and when they’d happen. A ‘time’ is an occasion for music, song and dance. Carrie said John Hennessy’s mother had that song—she was a King from the Southeast (Bight?) – and she got it from her] / Caroline Brennan, singing in English, speech in English

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Cassette 29 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 20

The badger drive, song [talk about a song competition in the lumberyards. AOH notes: She said that when her brother, Bernard Nash, came back from the lumbering woods in Deer Lake one year, he said, “Carrie, there was twenty dollars put out this year for the man who could compose the best song. And he told me about the fellow who won it’] / Caroline Brennan, singing in English, speech in English
Results 41 to 50 of 54