Re: Good source for beginning Celtic and Quebecois music
Originally Posted by
Jim Garber
Similar to Québécois music is the music of the Métis from the Canadian midwest. Some of their music is on this page of the
Virtual Museum of Métis site.
We call it the "west" though. We don't have a "midwest." Winnipeg, Manitoba is near the middle of the country, going from east to west that is, but it's in "the west." Ontario and Quebec are to the east of Manitoba, but they're "central Canada." The geographic centre of Canada is near Baker Lake in Nunavut, halfway between Winnipeg and the North Pole, but that's "the far north." Most Canadians never get that far north in their lives. Don't look for any logic in this naming of regions; that's just the way it is.
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
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