269278

$40.00

Buckna, Pat - The Yellowknife Album comp: a collection of poetry, music, stories and songs celebrating the 50th anniversary of the capital of the Northwest Territories

Format: LP comp
Label: Jamadam JAD 004, World Record Corp. WRC1-3406
Year: 1984
Origin: High River, Alberta - Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Genre: folk, poetry, spoken word, stories, arctic, Folklore Northwest Territories
Keyword:  Arctic, Yellowknife
Value of Original Title: $40.00
Make Inquiry/purchase: email ryder@robertwilliston.com
Release Type: Compilation Tracks
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Track Name
The Wildcats Closed Now (Midwinter Blues)
Jimmy Jesus
Narration (North Again for Gold)
North They Came

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The Yellowknife Album comp: a collection of poetry, music, stories and songs celebrating the 50th anniversary of the capital of the Northwest Territories

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The Yellowknife Album comp: a collection of poetry, music, stories and songs celebrating the 50th anniversary of the capital of the Northwest Territories

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A collection of northern music, stories, song and poetry in celebration Yellowknife's 50th anniversary as a community. Combining archive materials from the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre and CBC North with sessions engineered by Richard Harrow in the now-demolished Miner's Mess at the Yellowknife Inn and in City Council chambers, the album features a number of well known local celebrities - Mayor Mike Ballantyne, MLA Bob MacQuarrie, former commission Stuart Hodgson, Metis fiddler and publisher Tapwe Cretien, singer Ted Wesley, poet Jim Green, Pat Buckna, along with the dogs of Old Town and many others.

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