Well I'm back. If I look at this in reverse, it took me twenty hours to cross the gulf and only 18 hours to get to North Sydney from West Chester Pennsylvania. Funny, eh? Took longer to cross the Atlantic Ocean from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland than it did to drive from down south.. I crossed on the Atlantic Vision which I now call the Atlantic Delusion!
I'm staying in a boarding house in Corner Brook! Neat place...5 bedrooms, kitchen, computer room, tv room, nice couches, basement, washer and dryer and private parking. Location...Broadway! Near McHugh's pub. Near the Newfoundland Emporium. Near the Mill which blows its whistle faithfully at 8 am and wakes me up in time to make coffee for the other 4 guests here. All are under the age of 32; I guess that makes me the father type. They are all nice people and one is an exchange student/researcher from Asia.
I look forward to every Sharecropper Performance we have this summer. If you are near Pasadena on July 16th, come to the beach at the Oasis Grill. We play there at 9pm till 11pm.
If you are on the Northern Peninsula in August, come to Woody Point on Aug 14th at the Heritage Theatre there for our show at 8 pm. If in Cow Head on the 16th, our show is there at Shallow Bay at 8 pm. They should all be entertaining!
You can have a brew at these three places too. That means you can raise a glass during "Fine Girl Ye Are!" or sing along to our well loved One Room School song!
Hope to see you this summer. Please be sure to say hello! You can check our progress at www.thesharecroppers.net
But best of all this summer, my beautiful wife Katie Rose is coming to Nfld to be with me on July 1st. I'm all smiles!!!
Have a great summer 2010!
Monday, June 21, 2010
Thursday, June 10, 2010
They Call me A Wry Man by Ged Blackmore
If you know of my friend Ged Blackmore or even the Folk of the Sea, you will know we are dealing with an extraordinary human being. Ged was a highschool principal in a couple of schools that I taught in, and I know well his leadership, passion and kindness towards others. His musical accomplishments with fisherfolk during the cod moratorium will always be remembered as he took that hardy crowd not only across Newfoundland but Canada itself.
His song They Call Me a Wry Man has always touched me with its lyrics and moving musical score. I was delighted to see many of Ged's own musical masterpieces compiled on a cd charismatically titled "All We have is Now". I was even more pleased that our wonderful native Newfoundland actor, Gordon Pinsent, was asked to narrate and sing this song They Call me a Wry Man.
I can say so much more.... but I will leave you with some lyrics and the tune itself
if you email me at mike_madigan@yahoo.com
They call me a wry man that kicks 'gainst the goad
But I'm just a wise man that's tired of his load
I sowed in the ocean, took fish from the sea
Bringing gentlemen riches and me - poverty!!
His song They Call Me a Wry Man has always touched me with its lyrics and moving musical score. I was delighted to see many of Ged's own musical masterpieces compiled on a cd charismatically titled "All We have is Now". I was even more pleased that our wonderful native Newfoundland actor, Gordon Pinsent, was asked to narrate and sing this song They Call me a Wry Man.
I can say so much more.... but I will leave you with some lyrics and the tune itself
if you email me at mike_madigan@yahoo.com
They call me a wry man that kicks 'gainst the goad
But I'm just a wise man that's tired of his load
I sowed in the ocean, took fish from the sea
Bringing gentlemen riches and me - poverty!!
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Vikings Winds - my song written up in L'Anse aux Meadows, NFLD
You know of course the Vikings settled in Newfoundland around 999AD ! I've spent many hours exploring this Viking UNESCO World Heritage site way up the Northern peninsula of Newfoundland, and it is breathtaking. The remnants of the old sod huts are still there next to the replica ones they have built to Viking precision. Of course the land, beach and hills have never changed for a 1000 years.
When you leave the interpretation centre and walk down to the settlement and water, you really do enter an earlier milleninum. To think Leif, Eriik's son of course, lived on our lisand of Newfoundland long before John Cabot discovered it in 1497! Thought provoking, isn't it?
Although my Sharecropper Trio's second cd is appropriately named This New Founde Lande, the song I penned right there next to these Viking sod huts is named Viking Winds.
It's now a song captured on video by my good friend, Lynda Bruton, who first met our trio when we played aboard her visiting cruise ship to Newfoundland. Please have a look at her marvelous photography and her professional video, and enjoy my original song, Viking Winds. May the Vikings enter your dreams tonight!
(scroll down this page of songs till you see it):
http://www.downhomekitchen.com/posts.php?id=18392&page=2
When you leave the interpretation centre and walk down to the settlement and water, you really do enter an earlier milleninum. To think Leif, Eriik's son of course, lived on our lisand of Newfoundland long before John Cabot discovered it in 1497! Thought provoking, isn't it?
Although my Sharecropper Trio's second cd is appropriately named This New Founde Lande, the song I penned right there next to these Viking sod huts is named Viking Winds.
It's now a song captured on video by my good friend, Lynda Bruton, who first met our trio when we played aboard her visiting cruise ship to Newfoundland. Please have a look at her marvelous photography and her professional video, and enjoy my original song, Viking Winds. May the Vikings enter your dreams tonight!
(scroll down this page of songs till you see it):
http://www.downhomekitchen.com/posts.php?id=18392&page=2
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