Tales, Trails, and Tunes 3 coming up!
Hello again! Couple of fun projects coming up! The last half of April will find me travelling to schools around the Northern Peninsula and Southern Labrador with a group of talented individuals giving workshops on traditional instruments, music and dance! We’ll be visiting Woody Point, Trout River, Rocky Harbour, Port Saunders, Port aux Choix, Conche, Forteau, L’anse au Loup and West St. Modeste, St. Anthony and Cow Head.
The schedule is being finalized as I type but if you’re in the area and play traditional music or are just plain interested, feel free to contact your local school and say hello as we pass through! I’m always up for a chat about music or whatever.
Then in May, I’m very happy to say I’ll be again attending Tales, Trails, and Tunes, the island’s most wonderful festival, happening for its third time in lovely Norris Point, Bonne Bay. If you haven’t been, you must come by and visit if at all possible. It’s a special ten days of music, dance, hiking, storytelling, and I could go on till I run out of commas because it’s really an event where just about anything is likely to happen. The whole community participates and that’s what makes this such a time! May 15-24th! Click the photo to visit the TTT site!
Here’s a pic of my brother Vernon, myself, and the great accordion player from Black Duck Brook, Bernard Felix! The three of us and Norman Formanger, who accomanied Bernie on electric bass, spent a great few days at last year’s TTT, hope to see you there again this year b’ys! Thanks to Geraldine Hiscock for the photo!
Oh, PS! I’ll be doing a repeat of a project I began at last year’s Tales, Trails, and Tunes Festival. It’s an attempt to archive and preserve home recordings of traditional music, storytelling, and culture. If you are planning on attending the festival and have old tapes (audio or video) lying around of grandfather playing the fiddle or Aunt Susie singing her favorite old ballad, please bring it along and I will digitize it, add it to an online archive and return the tapes to you along with a digital copy. Digital copies are important to have because they are much more easily preserved and shared, whereas tapes deteriorate and can be lost quite easily! Meaning that much of our tradition is now sitting in our homes in danger of being lost! Let’s save these songs, stories, and tunes by digitizing them and sharing them!
Take care!
Daniel
Bernard Felix, Vernon Payne, and myself at TTT
Tags: Digitizing, School Tour, Tales, Tapes, Trails, TTT, Tunes