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A girl from a small coastal town sings of tragedy at sea, of fun-folk songs, love laments from little places, the heart-break of people, of fun and friendship - love and laughter - struggles and storms - and the ocean, always the ocean.
Born Anne Marie Murray on the coast of NFLD, she sang together with three sisters on musicals hosted by Don Jamieson in St. John's. From the tiny town, they often travelled by train in winter to St. John's on the Newfie Bullet.
Student days were spent at the Royal Conservatory of Music for three years and shortly thereafter she became a music teacher. She also began singing at Hotel NFLD and sung "Jack Was Ev'ry Inch a Sailor" while travelling in summer on the coast of Portugal, Ireland, England and down the British West Indies, in the Caribean.
No Much Records of Canada takes pleasure in introducing her to the general public with a first album of hauntingly beautiful songs of the ocean, and others about the rhythm of life by the sea. Anne Marie sings the authentic contemporary folk songs in the manner that only a native born Newfoundlander would sign them.
Hear the song about the sailing ships and the men who sailed them, the warm food, the remembered taste of salt on your tongue, of screech, sea-shells, and of little places where in the words of a song, she has written "Love By Night". Also listen carefully to "Where The Lighthouse Guards The Strand" which her father wrote.
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Murray, Anne-Marie - Where the Lighthouse Guards the Strand
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Where the Lighthouse Guards the Strand
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