Great to hear from you, Jim! Do you (or does anyone else) know of other great tunes by Mike MacDougall?
Best wishes, Francis On 7 Feb 2010, at 18:12, Jim Stewart wrote: > Thanks for posting this Francis. I hadn't seen it before. > Nice to see some attention paid to the music on this side of the pond. > > The video brings back a lot of memories for me. I had the pleasure of > meeting Mike MacDougall on several occasions. The segments appear > to have come from a Canadian TV series hosted by "Ryan's Fancy," three Irish > ex-pats who came together in Newfoundland and formed a band which > had a tremendous influence on the folk scene here on the east coast. > Their guitar player, Dermot O'Reilly, passed away several years ago. > Another member of the band, Fergus O'Byrne, (in the video he's on the left > around > the campfire), will be stopping in at my place to do a house concert in > April, along > with fellow Newfoundlander Jim Payne. > > Another notable in the video is Allister MacGillivray, one of the finest > songwriters > to be found anywhere. > > Anyway, the musical ties between Cape Breton and the "auld country" are > legendary, > and as strong as ever. > > Best regards, > Jim To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
