The Banks of Newfoundland #6 (Traditional) Video

NOTES IN GENERAL

This is a song I have never heard ... per se. I have put the notation available on the GEST Songs of Newfoundland and Labrador website ... http://www.wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/ ... into a computer program and had it play back to me, so I practiced it and this is what I came up with.

I seem to be always looking down, Well, I am, this song is not in my repertoire so I am reading the lyrics which I have stashed off camera.

It has been metioned to me by GEST a lot of the songs they have in their archive do not have video/audio to go with them, I want this to change! Over the next while, I will be recording these songs which may or may not be featured on the GEST site, but MUST be shared so they do not become forgotten footnotes in the music of the Atlantic provinces.

Most of the songs I will be recording, I have never heard, but rather, I have the chords for so I play them to myself and some up with my own style for it. If I am WAY off base, please record a video and respond to this, it's all about sharing the beautiful music. Now that I have my PC program, I am hoping that if the sheet music is available, I'll at least be able to get the vocal lines up close to the origianal score for the piece of music.

NOTES ON THIS SONG

Here is some background information for those of you who are interested:

This song is yet another variant (credited to Canada specifically, although when this was written is is likely the the Dominion of Newfoundland has not yet joined confederation). So, this very well could have been written by early Canadians about their excursions fishing off of the then independent Newfoundland. I may be wrong on this but I was not able to find very specific info on it, if you have any, please let me know and I will update this information.

Info from GEST Songs of Newfoundland and Labrador:

"Collected in 1957 from O.J. Abbott of Ontario by Edith Fowke and published in The Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs (1973)."
... http://www.wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/02/banks6.htm ...

Cheers.

Travis

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