Music and Song

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CA BI T-1084 · Item · 1975
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

MacNeil, Stephen R. Iona "Reisemaid Ghàidhealeach Eilean C.B." (185th Battalion)

Morrison, Dan Neil Loch Lomond "Chi mi na mòrbheanna..."

MacLellan, Angus Grand Mira (N.S.) "Cumha MhicChriomain"

MacLellan, Angus Grand Mira (N.S.) "Creach na Samhna"

MacLellan, Angus Grand Mira (N.S.) "Óran a 'Mhathain"

MacLellan, Angus Grand Mira (N.S.) "Postman's Song"

MacLellan, Angus Grand Mira (N.S.) "Óran na Bainnse" (Cape Mabou Wedding)

MacLellan, Angus Grand Mira (N.S.) "Poite-dhubh MhicRaing

Campbell, Hector Hillsdale, Inverness County (N.S.) "A ' bhrádha"

Shaw, John
MG 21.37-A-2-9 · Item · [19-]
Part of Dr. C. Lamont MacMillan Fonds

Item consists of a speech given by Dr. MacMillan at the third annual meeting of organized festival of song and speech. It is a three-day long festival in Baddeck where 16 school sections of the county compete. Dr. MacMillan mentions how the festival is sponsored by Home & School and how the very first Home & School Association in all of Canada was organized in Baddeck. He gives special credit to Mrs. Freda Jones, the circuit music teacher who organized the festival as well as Mr. Jame MacKinnon, a school inspector who has helped to develop said festival and Mr. Donald Wetmore and Mrs. J.W. Walshman, both from the department of education who were to act as judges.

CA BI T-402 · Item · 1972
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of an interview with J.A Macneil, Michael Macneil and John Angus Maclean of Big Beach, Cape Breton (N.S.) Features:

MacNeil, J.A. - A trip to Scotland

MacNeil, Michael - Biographical sketch

MacNeil, Michael - Biographical sketch

MacNeil, Michael - Ho iri raill o

MacNeil, Michael - S' fheudair dhomh...'s sgur de 'n dram

MacNeil, Michael - Railroad song

MacLean, John A. - Se fad mo mhulad

MacLean, John A. - Biographical sketch

MacLean, John A. - Story - the old woman and the trunk

MacLean, John A. - Ged a'sheoil mi air m'aineoil

Side 2:

J.A MacKinnon (MacKinnon's Harbour) :

Biographical Sketch
Schooling and teachers in MacKinnon's Harbour

Mrs. MacKinnon (MacKenzie):

Biographical Sketch

Selection of Gaelic songs

MacDonald, Joseph Lawrence
Brown Brothers of Washabuck
CA BI FT-213 · Item · Dec. 1987
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is a videocassette recording of The Brown Brothers of Washabuck, Cape Breton, produced in December 1987 and edited by Lisa Morrison, Audio/Visual Department, UCCB. Directed by Maxie MacNeil, Hector MacKenzie, and Michael Anthony MacLean.

Introduction
Family History (2:20)
Caledonia Song
Hoodlum Song (3:41)
Grandmother Story (7:32)
Song from the Old Homestead (9:19)
Vince MacLean’s Story (14:41)
Bordon Song (16:55)
Bear Dance (18:17)
Imitations (21:25)
Michael and the Fiddle (22:13)
New Year’s Story (Tody)
Flora’s Story
Home Movie – Michael humming “Duddledum”
No Sir No
Cod Liver Oil
Yon Munroe
Michael Anthony’s Story
Wedding Song
Sister’s Story
Kay MacLean’s Story
Michael Imitating Bagpipes
Dr. and the Bear
Gaelic Song
Hector’s Story
Malcolm MacDonald
Cemetery
Ending Collage

Narrator: Hector MacKenzie

Photographs and home movies in order of appearance:

Dan Brown, Michael Brown, Dan Rory (Murdock) MacNeil

Rory D. MacNeil, Joan MacNeil, Dan Angus MacNeil

Hughie MacLeod, Angus MacDonald

Jackie (Fownes) MacDonald, Michael Brown

Maxie MacNeil, Vince MacLean, Michael A. MacLean, Hector MacKenzie, Flora Canning

Upper Washabuck School located near Angus Ranald MacDonald. (“Big” Liza Campbell – Teacher. Two Browns on extreme right of picture – Michael and Dan.)

Store at Washabuck Bridge with potential local customers and teamsters.

Maxie MacNeil, Hector MacKenzie, Kay MacLean, Annie (Sister) MacLean, Flora Canning, Gordon MacLean (Guitar), Sniffer (dog), Simon MacKenzie

John Dan MacKenzie – store owner at Washabuck Bridge and Eddie MacLean (on right)

Kathleen MacLean, Rita MacDougall

Johnnie Brown, Michael Brown

Square set people:

Leonard MacKenzie, Jeanette MacKenzie, Lawrence MacDougall – Fiddler, Cassie MacKenzie, Florence MacKenzie, Aggie and Neil F. MacLennan, Eugene MacIsaac, Joe (Red Rory) MacLean – Prompter, Michael A. MacLean, Malcolm MacDonald, Michael Brown, Jean MacKenzie, Lexina Fraser

Mary C. MacDonald, Michael Brown, Dan Brown, Lexina Fraser

Dan Brown, Michael Brown, Alex Murphy

Cheryl MacDonald, Wanda MacDonald, Mary Ann MacKenzie, Dan Brown

Michael Brown, Jackie MacDonald, Rosemary MacKinnon, Dan Brown, Mary C. MacKinnon, Andy MacDonald

Wedding party at Highland Hill: Maxie and Joan MacNeil – Bride and groom, Michael (S.R.) MacNeil – Fiddler, Kammie (S.R.) MacNeil – Guitar, Annie Jane MacNeil – Dancer, Patricia MacNeil, Diane MacNeil, Capt. Angus MacNeil, John Rory MacNeil, Lex MacNeil, Dan Malcolm MacKinnon, Peggy (Dan Joe) MacNeil, Unknown female, Dan Brown, Unknown female

Michael Brown, Rose MacKenzie, Lex Fraser, Jean MacKenzie, Kathleen MacDonald, Michael A. MacLean, Duncan MacDonald, Mary C. MacDonald, Front: Michael MacDonald, Michael Brown, Dan Brown

Greg MacNeil (Bear), Arnold MacNeil (Doctor)

Dan Brown, Jean MacKenzie, Michael Brown

Wedding at Upper Washabuck: Dan Alex and Martha MacKinnon, with neighbours and friends

In horse and wagon – Big Neil MacKinnon, Kitty (Charlie Dan Angus) MacNeil

Camp Baddeck
CA BI 94-863-25378 · Item · 1909

Item is a photograph of a piper playing the bagpipes at Camp Baddeck.

CA BI MG 21.18-A-2 · Item · January 1978
Part of Tarbot Music Festival fonds

Item is one cassette featuring a taped segment of the CBC radio program ‘Touch the Earth’ hosted by Doug Lennox and Sylvia Tyson, which focused on the Tarbot Music Festival as reported by Bruce Steel in August 1977.

00:00:00 – 00:00:42 - Intro – Doug Lennox and Sylvia Tyson introducing the ‘Touch the Earth’ episode.
00:00:43 – 00:01:10 – Bruce Steel’s introduction to the Tarbot Music Festival segment of the show.
00:01:11 – 00:02:08 - Men of the Deeps open the Tarbot Music Festival with “Oran Do Ceap Breatainn” and a snippet of that performance is played to introduce the radio segment.
00:02:09 – 00:03:15 - Lee Cremo performs on the fiddle.
00:03:16 – 00:04:59 J.C. Benoit and Son (Jarvis Benoit and his son, Louis Benoit) play the tune “Boil the Cabbage Down” on fiddle and mandolin.
5:00 – 7:25 - Road lead singer, Fred Lavery, talking about culture and tradition in Cape Breton “root music” and the band plays a song.
00:07:25 – 00:10:08 - Kenzie MacNeil performing “Johnstown Boogey”
00:10:09 – 00:12:49 - Sam Moon and fiddler, Marcel Doucet, playing “The Girls of Neil’s Harbour”
00:12:50 – 00:13:15 - 'Touch the Earth' segment's outro

MG 21.8-T-3039 · Item · 1977
Part of D.J. MacDermaid Songs & Stories Collection

Item is a sound recording of the Cape Breton Singers.

Track List:
Track B1 - Unintelligible recording 07:57
Track B2 - The Waters of Iona. Singer: unknown. 03:58
Track B3 - Ma Bhuannaich thu Nighean Ghrinn (poor audio quality). Cumha. Local song composed in Christmas Island 05:57
Track B4 - Chuir iad an t-Sùil a Pilot. 02:11
Track B5 - Och Mar tha mi 's mi 'nam Ònar. Singer: Peter Jack MacLean of Rear Christmas Island. 10:27

MacKinnon, Rev. Angus
CA BI T-332 · Item · 1972
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of John E. MacNeil discussing local history, stories, dances and songs.
Prompting sets (for dancing)
Selling of Lobsters
Transportation and travelling over the trail before the Cabot Trail was built
Tom Murphy, on his knees when the church bell rang
Elections in the olden times
Prompting of the square dance by Joe A. MacNeil
Road to the Isles
Hundred Pipers

Joseph Curtis - Ubi Abi & Violin selections

Macneil, Mary E.
CA BI T-367 · Item · 1972
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of conversations concerning the Estmere and Little Narrows area. Includes information on the Little Narrows gypsum plant. Featuring :

Matheson, John Sandy - Biographical sketch

Matheson, John Sandy - Biographical sketch

Matheson, Kenneth - Biographical sketch

Matheson, Kenneth - Stories

Matheson, Kenneth - Song: Cumha

Matheson, Kenneth - A'Mhairi dhubh

Matheson, Kenneth - History of gypsum plant

MacDonald, Joseph L. - Presentation to Rev. A.D. MacKinnon

MacDonald, Joseph L. - Historical sketch of Little Narrows

MacDonald, Joseph L. - Historical sketch of Little Narrows

MacDonald, Joseph L. - A tragic accident

MacDonald, Joseph L. - A further sketch on gypsum plant

MacLeod, Malcolm - Early days at Little Narrows

MacDonald, Joseph Lawrence
CA BI T-357 · Item · 1972
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

MacDonald, Joseph L. Boisdale (N.S.) Early school days in Boisdale
MacDonald, Joseph L. Boisdale (N.S.) Early school days in Boisdale
Beaton, Mabel Baddeck (N.S.) Brief biographical sketch
Beaton, Mabel Baddeck (N.S.) Early school days in Baddeck (N.S.)
Beaton, Mabel Baddeck (N.S.) What were teaching conditions in early days?
MacDonald, Joseph L. Boisdale (N.S.) Leitches Creek schools
MacDonald, Joseph L. Boisdale (N.S.) Description of old school at Barrachois
O'Handley, Mrs. Sydney (N.S.) Biographical sketch
O'Handley, Mrs. Sydney (N.S.) Gaelic song
MacDonald, Ronald Boisdale (N.S.) Washabuct school history
MacDonald, Ronald Boisdale (N.S.) Gillis Point school
MacDonald, Ronald Boisdale (N.S.) Barra Glen school
MacDonald, Ronald Boisdale (N.S.) History of Iona school
MacDonald, Ronald Boisdale (N.S.) Early post office in Iona
MacDonald, Joseph L. Boisdale (N.S.) Barrachois School

MacDonald, Joseph Lawrence
Dancing, Englishtown
CA BI 86-123-16221 · Item · 1922

Fiddler (seated) plays for dancers on the shore of St. Ann's Bay in Englishtown.

Early Days in Washabuck
CA BI T-120 · Item · 1969
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of Hugh F. Mackenzie, Alex Maclean, and Joseph A. Gillis discussing the early days of Washabuck N.S.

Drowning of Peter MacLean in 1827. (Alex MacLean) (Story--Ghost)
"Mr. MacLean, tell us about the early days of your ancestors in this country." (Hugh MacKenzie) (History)
Washabuck ghost story - same as earlier but more detailed. (Alex MacLean)
"I was told a story about a boat built in Washabuck..."(1868) The boat sailed from Baddeck, 1868, and disappeared-the "Alexander" (Alex MacLean)
Hugh F. MacKenzie recites poetry - lament composed for the crew of the above mentioned schooner.
"Cornmeal and molasses" - story referring to Scottish immigration. (Alex MacLean)

Song - "Thainig mi...gu ann taigh Gilleasbuig Ruaraidh..." Eadar bha ho-annan (Unidentified singers)
Song - "Hinn ho hog a ro..." (Unidentified singers)

MacKenzie, Hugh Francis
CA BI 86-132-16230 · Item · 6 July 1969

Item is a photograph of a ceremony during the Gaelic mod at the Gaelic College. Former premier of Nova Scotia, Angus L. MacDonald and Father Rankin in attendance on stage.

CA BI 86-119-16217 · Item · 1940

Colaisde na Gàidhlig / Gaelic College hosting Gaelic Mod. Man at the microphone is Jack MacDonald (Ottawa) and to the left of the Union Jack flag is Red A.D. MacDonald (Board Member of the Gaelic College).

CA BI 77-977-1111 · Item · ca. 1940

Item is a photograph of Hon. Angus L. MacDonald, Finlay MacDonald and A.W.R. MacKenzie on stage during the opening ceremonies of the Mod at the Gaelic College in St. Ann's.

Gaelic Mod, St. Ann's
CA BI 78-1123-2873 · Item · 1967

Item is a photograph of the Gaelic Mod at St. Ann's.

Gaelic Songs
CA BI MG 6.43 · Fonds · 20th century

Fonds consists of Gaelic poetry, songs, hymns and a letter. Creator is unknown.

A. Notebook of handwritten Gaelic songs believed to be the songs of Ewen MacKinnon, otherwise known in Iona as "Bodach a'Bhidse".
B. Gaelic translation of the hymn “The Old Old Story.” Hexatonic scale adapted to regular musical store by unknown person. Original, 2 pages.
C1. Song "Chuir Mi Cul ri Iollaraidh" (with English translation) [n.d.] Original, 2 pages. Presented by Mr. & Mrs. John MacKenzie, Mira Gut.
C2. Song: “Bheir a Nall am Botal Dhu” [sic] (local composition) Original, 2 pages. Presented by John Allan MacNeil, Grand Narrows.
C3a. "Mi'm Shuidhe M'Onar" by Scottish bard Sorley Cameron. The name “Neil MacDonald” is penciled on the manuscript but not definite that he is the author. Original, 8 pages.
C3b Humourous song [untitled] also written in Cape Breton. Signed by Neil Macdonald but he was not the author. Also 2 fiddle tunes with musical notation, one stating that it is from Bill Lamey. Original, 5 pages.
C4. Song (untitled) likely of Cape Breton origin. Typescript, 1 page.
D. Letter written in Gaelic from Crows Nest to a friend in Inverness County, 1915. Original, 1 page. Presented by John Neil Beaton, Port Hood, 1984.

CA BI T-1103 · Item · 1975
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of Alex Maclean (Big Baddeck), Hector Carmichael (Englishtown), Malcolm Angus Macleod (Skir Dhu), and Dan A. Macleod (North River Bridge.)

MacLean, Alex; MacLeod, M.A. - "Gur e mo run an Domhnallach..."

Carmichael, Hector & MacLeod, Malcolm A. - "Chaidh mi a mach"

Carmichael, Hector & MacLeod, Malcolm A. - Local milling song about fishing

Carmichael, Hector & MacLeod, Malcolm A. - "Tha buaidh air an uisge-beatha"

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - "'S math a dhannsadh Uisdean Friseal"

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - "Morag Bheag"

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - "Chairistiona Caimbeul..."

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - "Cuir do lamh 'staigh fon aodach"

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - "Ged nacheil mi math air bardachd"

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - "A ' Mhorag, nigh'n Dhomhnaill Duinn"

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - "Mo luaidh thu a chunna mi 'n diugh"

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - "Hiu a ho tha mi fo lionn dubh"

MacLeod, Dan A. - Customs surrounding "Calluinn"

Shaw, John
CA BI T-1089 · Item · 1964
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of Gaelic song selections as performed by various informants on Cape Breton's North Shore. Recording opens with fiddle selections by Donald Angus Beaton, Mabou, N.S. Side 2 opens with fiddle tunes by Donald Angus Beaton of Mabou.

Side 1:

MacLeod, Dan (North River Bridge) : Song " Hi Horo 's na bheil air m' Aire"

MacLeod, Malcolm Angus (Skir Dhu): Song "O Gur Trom Trom Mo Cheum"

MacLeod, Dan: Song "Illean Aigh"

Carmichael, Kenny (Boston): Song "Hi Ri Iu Le Ho Horo Mo Chuachag"

Shaw, John (Wreck Cove): Song "Gu Dé Nì Mi Mur Faigh Mi Thu"

MacLeod, Malcolm Angus: Song "Cha Threiginn Fhìn Mo Chruinneag Dhonn"

Carmichael, Kenny and Malcom Angus MacLeod: Song "Thuirt an Gille 's Tu Mo Laochan"

MacLeod, Dan: Song "Theirinn Horo Hug is Hoireann"

MacLeod, Malcolm A. Sgir Dubh, Victoria County "An Gille Dubh a Raill o..."

MacLeod, Malcom Angus: Song "Air Faill Ill Eileadh O Hug O". Some verses in Brìgh an Òrain p. 293. Final verses local.

MacLeod, Malcolm Angus: Song "Chunna mi 'n Làir Dhonn Aig Seumas"

MacLeod, Malcolm Angus: Song "Mo Nigheann Donn Ghuanach". Slow

Side 2:

Beaton, Donald Angus: Fiddle tunes

MacNeil, Stephen R. Iona, Victoria County "Moch an Diugh a Rinn Mi Gluasad"

Shaw, John Wreck Cove. Victoria County "Faill Ill Oro Faill Ill Oro" . To the tune of "Gur Mise tha Trom Airtneulach" but different lyrics.

MacLeod, Dan North River Bridge, Victoria County "Dh' Òlainn Deoch air Làimh mo Rùin"

MacLeod, Malcolm A.; Carmichael, Kenny Sgir Dubh, Victoria County, Boston, Mass. "Mhòrag 's na Horo Gheallaidh"

MacLeod, Malcolm A.; Carmichael, Kenny Sgir Dubh, Victoria County, Boston, Mass. "An Seann Tigh Sgoil" .

MacLeod, Malcolm A. Song "Dheanainnn Sùgradh ris an Nighean Duibh"

Shaw, John Song "O Horo 's na Bheil air m'Àire" Continued on Side 1.

Shaw, John
CA BI T-1768 · Item · 1985
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Stephen MacNeil - Oran Dutchadh

Mickey MacNeil - Ship Alexander

John Dan MacNeil - A nighean A'Chutan Duib

'S Mor an cochladh

Roddy MacInnis - Tha mo run air a' ghille

Milling & Halloween Customs

Pady MacInnis - Oran an Election

Oran an t-Seolgair,
a' Fhleasgaich Dhuinn

ach ann duinn a dh' eirich

Tha mi an duigh gu tinn

Se 'm oro bha a phiemic

Highland Village Association
CA BI T-1764 · Item · 1985
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Frank Macrae and John Rory Macneil

Oidhche bha 'n Comhlan Cruinn "Mo Nighean Donna Boidhche)
Oran a' mhisgeir
Ho ro mo nighean chuanach
Fhein - labhairt an t-seann
Mo nighean Donn a 'Chui; Reidh
"Oran an Taighe" - The House Song
Conversation with John Rory

Watson, Jim
Hugh Francis MacKenzie fonds
CA BI MG 6.23 · Fonds · 1905-1986

Fonds consists of papers that include:

b. Two copies of the history of the first settlers in Iona including MacKenzie's version of the story of their first encounter with the Mi'Kmaq ; a story in English and set in Christmas Island. Many cultural practices are discussed ; a speech addressed to The Nova Scotia and Canadian Associations of Social workers ; two songs in English.

MacKenzie, Hugh Francis
CA BI MG 6.37 · Fonds · 1936-1955

Fonds consists of:

  • papers including correspondence with D.D. MacFarlane, Joseph D. MacKinnon and Fr. Angus MacNeil pertaining to MacNeil, MacSween and MacFarlane genealogies and to Gaelic songs
  • list of members of the Caledonian Society, Sydney
  • story entitled "Stephen the Spendthrift"
  • passport photo of Mr. MacNeil [#79-1192-4172]
CA BI T-1092 · Item · 1975
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of Gaelic song selections as performed by various informants.

O'Brien, Mrs. Port Hawkesbury "Ho ro mo bheauty..." (Local composition)

O'Brien, Mrs. Port Hawkesbury "Óran sgriob..."

Williams, John and Neil Melford, Inverness County (N.S.) "Óran a 'Bhàta"

Williams, John and Neil Melford, Inverness County (N.S.) "Hiu oro 's na hiu o, gur tu mo nighean donn bhoidheach"

Gillis, Mrs. Hugh Iona, Victoria County "Ho ro mo leannan, mo shuil 'ad dhéidh"

Gillis, Mrs. Hugh Iona, Victoria County "Song for soldiers sent to Transvaal"

Gillis, Mrs. Hugh Iona, Victoria County Song composed by the singer

Shaw, John
CA BI T-2022 · Item
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of Malcolm Angus MacLeod, John MacLeod and an unidentified singer performing a selection of Gaelic songs.

John MacLeod North Shore
"Cha mhor nach bu mhath dhuinn sguir a bhi stri..."
"Bithibh aotrom 's togaibh fonn..."

Malcolm Angus MacLeod North Shore "An Te a chaill a'Ghaihlig"

Unidentified Singer "Ho ro mo nigh 'n donn bhoiheach"

Unidentified Singer Gaelic psalm - precenting

Unidentified Singer "Tha mo bhreacan dubh fo'n dile..."

Malcolm Angus MacLeod North Shore
"Cha bhi mi buan..."
"Chunna mi lar honn aig Seumas..."
"Ho ro 's tu mo run thu..."
"Cha threiginn fhein mo chruinneag dhonn..."

Leach, MacEdward
CA BI T-250 · Item · May. 8, 1971
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of CBI Radio's Island Echoes program air on May. 8 1971. Includes Gaelic song, interviews with Gaelic speakers, fiddle and bagpipe music.

Featuring:

MacTalla an Eilean (Island Echoes) Program 1, May 8, 1971
Theme - Gaelic song by M.A. MacLeod
MacKenzie, Hugh (Host) Sydney (N.S.) Interview with Malcolm A. MacLeod
MacAuley, Fred Scotland Gaelic songs
MacLeod, Malcolm Skir Dhu (N.S.)
MacKenzie, Hugh (Host) Sydney (N.S.) Speaks
MacKenzie, Hugh (Host) Bagpipe music
MacKenzie, Hugh (Host) Theme

MacTalla An Eilean (Island Echoes) Program 2, May 8, 1971
Theme - Gaelic song by M.A. MacLeod
MacKenzie, Hugh (Host) Sydney (N.S.)
MacLeod, Malcolm Skir Dhu (N.S.) Mr. MacLeod continues singing Cape Breton Gaelic songs to old airs
MacAuley, Fred (BBC) Scotland Interview with Mr. Malcolm MacLeod continues
MacLeod, Malcolm Skir Dhu (N.S.) Gaelic songs and stories
MacKenzie, Hugh (Host) Sydney (N.S.) Walking songs
MacLeod, Malcolm Skir Dhu (N.S.) Theme

CBI Radio
CA BI T-734 · Item · 1970
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of Malcolm Angus Macleod (Skir Dhu) being interviewed by Fred MacAuley (Scotland) for BBC Scotland.

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - Brief biographical sketch

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - Tha sinne bronach...

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - S an oidhche bha luaidh ann...

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - Song about trappers snowbound in woods

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - Fear a 'fhiosag ruadh

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - Chaidh mi latha dh'an stabull...

MacLeod, Malcolm A.; MacLeod, Danny K. - Dh'olainn deoch a laimh mo run...

MacLeod, Malcolm A.; MacLeod, Danny K. - Illean iu o hu oho...

MacLeod, Malcolm A.; MacLeod, Danny K. - Hu oro hu o...

MacLeod, Malcolm A.; MacLeod, Danny K. - E mo leannan, o mo leannan...

MacLellan, Ann Terry
CA BI 91-1076-23037 · Item · 1991

Item is a photograph of the gravestone marking the burial of musician Mike MacDougall n St. Peter's Cemetery in Ingonish.

Prendergast, Paul
MG 21.8-T-3041 · Item
Part of D.J. MacDermaid Songs & Stories Collection

Item is a sound recording of a Milling Frolic from Catalone.

Track List:
Side A
Track A1 - Eilean Sgitheanach nam Buaidh. Singer: Maxie MacNeil, Iona.
Track A2 - Ma Bhuannich Thu Nighean Ghrinn. Singer: unknown.
Track A4 - Mo Roghainn 's Mo Rùn a Chunna mi'n Dé. In: an t-Òranaiche p. 108. Singer: unknown.
Track A5 - Mo Nigheann Donn 's Laghach thu. SInger: unknown.
Track A6- 'S i Mo Ghaol a'Mhaighdean Lurach. Singer: unknown
Track A7 - Gur tu mo Nigheann Donn Bhòidheach. Singer: unknown
Track A8 - Dan do Sheann Ford. Composed by William MacVicar or Catalone. In: Beyond the Hebrides p. 157. Singer: unknown.
Track A9 - Along the Shores of Washabuck. Singer: Maxie MacNeil, Iona.
Track A10 - Mo Chridhe Trom 's cha Neònach. Poor audio quality. Singer: unknown.

Side B
Track B1 -Ged a Sheòl mi air m'Aineol. Composed by Roderick Morrison of Loch Lomond. Singer: unknown.
Track B2 - Gur e mo Rùn an Dòmhnallach. Singer: unknown.
Track B3 - Mo Nighean Donn an t-Sùgraidh. Singer: unknown.
Track B4 - Cadal cha Dean Mi. Singer: unknown.
Track B5 - Tha Mo Rùn air a'Ghille
Track B6 - Nionag a'Chuil Duinn nach Fhan thu. SInger: Allan MacLeod, New Boston.
Track B7 - Mo Chridhe Trom 's Cha Neonach. Singer: unknown.
Track B8 - a'Mhorag 's na Horo Gheallaidh. In: Beyond the Hebrides. Singer: unknown.

Milling Frolic, North Shore
CA BI 84-426-14526 · Item · ca. 1980

Item is a photograph of a milling frolic on the North Shore area of St. Ann's Bay. Featured in this iconic image from left to right: John Alex ( John X. ) MacDonald, Neil R. MacDonald, Gwennie Pottie, Jessie Mary MacLeod, Alex Kerr, Dan Murdock Morrison, and Bessie MacInnis in the background.

Fitzgerald, Owen
CA BI T-1121 · Item · 1975
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

MacAskill, Murdoch (North Shore) "'S fheudar dhomh le firinn sgur dhe'n dram..."

Shaw, John (North Shore) "Mo chridhe trom 's cha charaich e"

Shaw, John and MacAskill, Murdoch (North Shore) Do'n Chuthaig

Shaw, John (North Shore) "Ailein duinn..."

Shaw, John (North Shore) "Mo chuachag a rill u..."

Shaw, John (North Shore) "Mo ruin, mo nighean donn bhoidheach..."

Carmichael, Hector (North Shore) "Bithibh aotrom 's togaibh fonn..."

MacAskill, Murdoch (North Shore) "Ma bhuannaich thu nighean ghrinn.."

Carmichael, Hector (North Shore) Oran a Phoitseir

Carmichael, Hector (North Shore) An t-Each Ruadh

MacAskill, Murdoch (North Shore) Oran a' Choin Bhain

Carmichael, Hector (North Shore) Oran a' Mhortgage (one verse)

Carmichael, Hector (North Shore) "A story about Murdoch Dan..."

Shaw, John (North Shore) "Seann mhart..."

Shaw, John (North Shore) "E ho ro mo mhaighdean lurach..."

MacAskill, Murdoch (North Shore) A Mhairi Bhoidheach

Shaw, John (North Shore) Leis a' Mhaighdean

Carmichael, Hector (North Shore) Oran na Muice

MacAskill, Murdoch (North Shore) "Cha threiginn fhin mo chruinneag dhonn"

Carmichael, Hector (North Shore) "Oran na Torachd..."

Shaw, John
CA BI T-2023 · Item
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Dan Morrison North Shore
"Nighean donn a' bhroilleach shoilleir"
"Gaol an t-seolaair"

Neil MacQuarrie North Shore "Ma phosas mi, cha ghabh mi te mhor"

Unidentified Singer "The mo bhreacan dubh fo'n dile..."

Unidentified Singer "Il o, il ho, horo eile..."

George MacAskill Precenting - Psalm 68

George MacAskill North Shore "Ma phosas mi, cha ghabh mi te mhor..."

Unidentified Singer
"Hi ill iu ill agus o..."
"O hi ri ill obha ho..."
Unidentified Informant "Domhnall agus Alasdair..."

John Matheson "Eilean an Fhraoich"

John Matheson "A' Mhairi Bhoidheach"

Leach, MacEdward
CA BI T-3158 · Item · 1970
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of a milling frolic in French River, N.S. The end of the tape includes english songs by Norman Kennedy, Lizzie MacNeil and Johnny Edward Macneil.

Milling frolic songs are as follows:

Fear a' Bhata
Leis a mhaighdean o hi u
O hi og i o
Tha mo bhreacan s fo dile
Thug mi gaol dhan fhear bhan
Ho ro mo nighean donn bhoidheach
He mo leannan o mo leannan
Ged tha mi gun crodh gun aighean

North Shore Gaelic Songs
CA BI T-1110 · Item · 1975
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of Gaelic singers from the Dunvegan and North Shore areas.

Beaton, David (Broadcove, N.S) - Unsuccessful moonshine... (Story)

Beaton, David - First electric shock treatment of rheumatism in Broadcove

MacLellan, Lauchie - "Moch 'sa mhadainn rinn mi gluasad..."

MacLellan, Lauchie (Dunvegan) - "Nighean donn a'bhreacain uaine..."

Shaw, John; MacLeod, Malcolm A. - "'S e mo cheist..."

Shaw, John; MacLeod, Malcolm A.

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - "Ho ro fear mo ruin thu..."

Shaw, John - "An teid thu leam a ribhinn og..."

Shaw, John - "Fidhler an ceann an drochaid..."

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - (Skir Dhu, N.S) Port a beul

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - Port a beul

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - Miss MacLeod's Reel

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - "Mo luaidh a' chruinneag"

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - "Thuirt an gille 's tu mo laochan..."

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - Song by "Lazarus" with history

Shaw, John - (North Shore, N.S) "Caidil thusa 's gheobh thu fheidh..."

Shaw, John - "An cluinn thu, leannain, an cluinn thu..."

Shaw, John - "Ho ro ho goraidh o..."

Shaw, John - "A nighean donn an t-sugraidh..."

Shaw, John - "Chunna mi lair dhonn aig Seumas..."

Shaw, John - "Mo nighean donn ghuanaich..."

MacLean, Alex (Big Baddeck, N.S) - "Am minister MacLeoid..."

Shaw, John
Reels
CA BI MG 21.18-A-1 · File · August 28, 1977
Part of Tarbot Music Festival fonds

File consists of recordings of the August 1977 Tarbot Music Festival in Tarbot, Cape Breton.

CA BI MG 6.26 · Fonds · 1920-1955

Fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, constitution and by-laws, financial records, addresses, cash book, roll book, and membership records that were created by the Scottish Catholic Society.

Scottish Catholic Society
Sgeulachdan and Gaelic Songs
CA BI T-1083 · Item · June, 1975
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Campbell, Hector Hillsdale, Inverness County (N.S.) "Nighean Righ Eireann"

Morrison, Dan J. Breton Cove, Victoria County "Gaol an t-Seòladair"

MacDonnell, Hughie Dan Broad Cove, Inverness County (N.S.) Port-a-beul

Morrison, Sandy Wreck Cove. Victoria County "Gur e mo rùn an Domhnallach..."

MacLeod, Malcolm Agnus Sgir Dubh, Victoria County "Annt a rill u o..."

Morrison, Sandy Wreck Cove. Victoria County "Airfaill irinn o..."

Morrison, Sandy Wreck Cove. Victoria County "Airfaill irinn o..." (cont.)

Morrison, Sandy Wreck Cove. Victoria County

Campbell, Hector Hillsdale, Inverness County (N.S.) "Ceadach MacRigh nan Collach"

Shaw, John
CA BI T-1090 · Item · 1964
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of Malcolm Angus Macleod, Skir Dhu N.S, singing a selection of Gaelic Songs.

"Tuireadh na Hiortach"
"Cha bhi mi buan..."
"Air faill irin iu..."
"Cuir dhiot an cadal..."
"Leis a' Mhaighdean"
"Bodach beag an lòinean"
"O ho ro 'ille dhuinn..."
"Am muileann dubh..."
"Dùthaich MhicLeòid"
"Mo rún, mo nighean donn bhoidheach"
"O hi ri leibh a ho..."
Twenty-third Psalm

Shaw, John
Sound Recordings
CA BI MG 21.18-A · Series · August 1977 - January 1978
Part of Tarbot Music Festival fonds

Series consists of audio recordings of the 1977 Tarbot Music Festival in Tarbot, Nova Scotia and one CBC radio segment about the 1977 festival.

CA BI T-2144 · Item · 1968
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of a Mod concert held at the Gaelic College in St. Ann's, N.S.

Side A: Ian Webster performs bagpipe tunes, followed by more numbers played by a pipe band. Joann Bray sings Gaelic songs unaccompanied by musical instruments. Barry Ewan performs a hornpipe on bagpipes. John Allan Cameron and J. and L. Mac Issac sing and play "Banks of Sicily" and other numbers. Side B: Ian Webster plays various bagpipe pieces, then sound becomes too distorted for remaining tape to be playable.

CA BI T-2054 · Item
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Stephen Rory MacNeil Iona The Co-operative Moment in Iona
Dr. Coady taught them how to start & operative Co-operatives
The Iona Co-operative, its beginning
Difficulty during the depression
Credit Union started first - small deposits
First co-op failed
It was difficult to get the Credit Union organized first payment 10 cents
Benefits of the Credit Union
Second Iona Co-op got along well
Depression - no money - $1 a day would make them rich
Farmers had plenty food but no way of earning money for taxes, etc.
Jim Francis MacNeil Sydney (N.S.) "Thig dhiot an cada; 's tionndaidh rium"
"Ho ro mo chuid chuideach thu..."
An Te a'Chaill a'Ghaidhlig"
Started working in the Steel Plant at age of 20
His job at the plant - drilling rails
Describes the rail-making process
5,000 working for Dosco when he started
Where rails are shipped
Reasons for starting the plant in Sydney (N.S.)

Macdonald, Norman
CA BI T-119 · Item · 1969
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of Hugh F. Mackenzie and Joseph A. Gillis discussing ghosts and forerunners in Gaelic tradition.

"Miracle of the seed." (Gillis, Joe)
Story about Frenchvale (Gillis, Joe) (Anecdote--Humorous)

Hugh MacKenzie:
"The barley is full of the devil, it will grow anyway." (Anecdote--Humorous)
Story of the woman who gave her cow to the Priest. One year later she came back for it.
"No liquor...Priest hated liquor so he sent the man out of his Parish."
Story about the man who saw his shadow. (Anecdote--Humorous)
"Did you hear that the devil died?" " "
Story about the farmer in Inverness. "I had lived here for 50 years and this road has never left here." (Anecdote--Humorous)
"He fell with a bottle in his back pocket." (Anecdote--Humorous) "I trust it was blood and nothing else."
"Mickey Katie saw something strange." (Story--second sight) "-- death of a brother."
Story about "the coffin being brought out to bury" that the man saw. He predicted that the coming death would be sudden. "It was." (Story--second sight)
"This man met a ghost." (Story--Forerunner) "The boy who died and returned with the money he had borrowed."
"Story about Ottawa Brook." (Story--Ghost) "...his daughter gave him signature he needed."
"Bocan......How do you know that this was a real bocan?" (Story--Bocan) Mr. MacKenzie and his brother were visiting a neighbour and saw a terrible thing at the end of the bridge. (Story--Ghost)
Story of the drowning and the fidelity of a dog. (Anecdote)
Story about the old woman who had no money. (Anecdote)
Story about the prayers. "Lack of intelligence makes people pray on, and on." (Anecdote)
"Here is the story about a foolish man who tells a priest about a bocan he saw." The priest told him it must have been the devil. "How could it have been the devil, it spoke Gaelic." (Anecdote)
Women who got lost (Finished on B-1)

Hugh MacKenzie:
What were you telling me about the bleating of lamb and the power of prayer? An old lady was lost in the woods. Prayers were said for her. A lamb was heard bleating. She was found.
"You won't go to their wake, they didn't come to ours."
"Thusa Eachain" (Anecdote--Humorous) "Don't call me 'Thusa' call me Sibhse."
It is true that there is gold buried in a well near Christmas Island? (Story--Ghost) People heard horses galloping - but there were no horses.
Story about the woman who had a great devotion to the Blessed Virgin - a priest played a trick on her. "Be polite, be quiet - I am talking to your mother!"
Story about the man who had no money - he walked 188 miles to get one bag of meal.
"She made him a pair of trousers and he went with her." Story about the woman whose husband wouldn't let her go away alone.
"She thought he was the Bishop" "Save me, save me, the Bishop is chasing me!" She thought her husband was the Bishop because he dressed up to go to church and she did not recgonize him. (Anecdote--Humorous)
"Horrinn o hi ri dhiu o." Mr. MacKenzie composed this in 1937, when he heard the whistle of the Steel Plant and thinking of his yesteryears he was lonely and sad. (Song)

MacKenzie, Hugh Francis
CA BI MG 21.18-C-1 · Item · 1977
Part of Tarbot Music Festival fonds

Item is a promotional poster for Tarbot: Cape Breton’s Music Festival, which took place on August 28, 1977 at Malcolm Dean’s farm in Tarbot, Cape Breton as presented by School on the Hill. The poster lists festival ticket prices and where to buy advance tickets, along with that year’s performers.

Tarbot Music Festival fonds
CA BI MG 21.18 · Fonds · 1977 - 1979

Fonds consists of materials related to the Tarbot Music Festival held in Tarbot, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, including audio reels of 1977 festival performances, a cassette with a Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) radio segment about the festival, photographs, a festival poster, a patch, and a ‘Tarbot’ stamp.

Tarbot, Cape Breton's Music Festival Inc.
CA BI MG 21.18-A-1-1 · Item · August 28, 1977
Part of Tarbot Music Festival fonds

Item is a recording of Marcel Doucet and Sam Moon opening the First Annual Tarbot Music Festival in Tarbot, Nova Scotia. The band, Shore Folk, performs three songs at the end of the recording and their set is continued on Tape 2 (MG 21.18-A-1-1-2).

Sam Moon and Marcel Doucet:
• 00:00:00 – 00:03:01 – “Crossing to Ireland/The Rights of Man”
• 00:03:02 – 00:06:55 - “Hello Cape Breton, Goodbye Nashville”
• 00:06:56 – 00:09:15 - fiddle tune
• 00:09:16 – 00:11:41 - “The Girls of Neil’s Harbour”
• 00:11:42 – 00:14:23 - “Hey Marcel”
• 00:14:24 – 00:18:24 – [unidentified song]
• 00:18:25 – 00:22:10 - [unidentified song]
• 00:22:11 – 00:24:41 - fiddle tune
• 00:24:42 – 00:27:26 - “Christine” (the band’s bassist, Stuart Robertson, is on vocals with Sam Moon)
• 00:27:27 – 00:30:46 - “Space Available” (fiddle tune written by Marcel Doucet)

Shore Folk:
• 00:30:47 – 00:35:19 – “Nancy Whiskey”
• 00:35:20 – 00:39:00 - “Boston Burglar”
• 00:39:01 – 00:45:29 - “The Band Played Waltzing Matilda”