Flummies - Songs Of Labrador

Tracks

Side 1

		Track Name	Length
	1	45 Miles from Goose Bay	03:15
	2	My Little Cottage Home
	3	Grand River Song
	4	Canadian Waltz
	5	Heading for Fortune
	6	Labrador Rose
	7	Me and Grandpa Louie

Side 2

		Track Name	Length
	1	Trappers Alphabet
	2	Wings of an Eagle
	3	Three in One Waltz
	4	Crowd of Jolly Trappers
	5	Geralds Jig - Crackys Reel
	6	Home to Labrador

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Information/Write-up

The Flummies are an aboriginal group of musicians from Happy Valley, Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador. The band features Gary O'Driscoll on lead guitars and vocal harmony; Harris Learning on bass guitar; Greg O'Blenis on drums; Richard Dyson on accordion; Alton Best on acoustic guitar, vocal harmonica & background vocals; and George Shiwak on vocals & background vocals.

"Songs of Labrador" was their second album and it was recorded, produced and engineered by Gary O'Driscoll at Homespun Studios, Goose Bay Labrador, August 1988. The cover design was by David E. Willoughby.

The Flummies are renowned for their work to record and preserve the rich and diverse Newfoundland and Labrador culture. Their first release was a 7" entitled "Songs From Labrador" on Kenamu Records / World Record Corp. WRC5-4642. Other albums include: "Labradorimiut", released in 2000, "Way Back Then", released in 2001 "25th Anniversary Album", released in 2003, and their latest album, which won the Aboriginal Recording of the Year at the 2009 East Coast Music Awards, "This is the Life for Me", which was released in 2008.

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