Recording compiled by R. Murray Schafer & Lynn Whidden. Every Song Comes with the Wind
Mike Hotain, now deceased, was a Dakota musician who strove to pass on his Indigenous musical knowledge and wisdom.
Recording of Three Generations of Inuit song from Arviat, Nunavut (Eskimo Point Northwest, Northwest territories), January 1975.
The Inuit songs and stories in this collection were recorded in the winter of of 1975 by Lynn Whidden for a project at the University of Minnesota School of Music where it is deposited. There is also a copy in the Provincial Archives of Manitoba, Winnipeg……
Réal Boucher: Three Habitats of Song and a Story. Remarkably in this twenty first century, Real Boucher’s songs flow unbroken from his ancestors in seventeenth century France.
Real’s corpus of songs embody human adaptability, more particularly the adventurous and daring spirit of the Boucher family whose family history began in Mortagne, Normandy and lives on in Saskatchewan, Canada…….
