![]() Some newly-composed songs were introduced into the Canadian folk repertoire at this time - eg, McCurdy's 'Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream' and Wade Hemsworth's 'The Black Fly Song'. Their counterparts in Canada at this time included Alan Mills and the US-born Ed McCurdy, both heard on CBC radio. The Canadian-born Oscar Brand was one of several performers to assist in the circulation of this material in the USA. ![]() Abbott, Tom Brandon, LaRena Clark, Vincent Ferrier de Repentigny, Marie Hare, and Finvola Redden-Bower.ĭuring the 1940s, the US singers Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie spearheaded the renewal of interest in performing traditional songs, as well as new material written in traditional styles, and were popular in Canada. Roy McKenzie, Helen Creighton, Edith Fowke, Louise Manny, Luc Lacourcière, Germain Lemieux, Kenneth Peacock, and others documented closely Canada's folk music heritage as recalled (and sung) by such respondents as O.J. Just as collectors had been active in rural USA earlier in the century, recording for posterity the traditional music that survived for years only by oral transmission, and thereby establishing the foundation for such a revival, Marius Barbeau, Father Anselme Chiasson, E.-Z. Though primarily associated with the interest taken in, and the urbanization of, folk music by young (and eventually professional) performers in the USA during the 1950s and 1960s, the folk music revival has had direct parallels in Canada.
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