Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Cape Breton Song Collection by Allister MacGillivray Allister MacGillivray. Allister MacGillivray CM, D. Litt (honors), is a Canadian singer/songwriter, guitarist, and music historian from the Cape Breton region of . He was born January 17, 1948 in the coal-mining and fishing town of . [1] [2] Contents. Early life Early career Later career Style and modern influence Awards and accolades References. Early life. He began performing at the age of seven, later became a boy chorister and, as a teen, sang in local folk bands. During his twenties and thirties, he traveled the world as a guitar accompanist with some prominent Celtic performers, including Ryan's Fancy, Makem & Clancy (, Liam Clancy) and . With Cameron, he performed on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville in 1970, earning a lengthy standing ovation and stealing the show from the likes of Hank Snow, Roy Rogers, and . Since leaving the road, MacGillivray has lived close to the village of Marion Bridge, also known as Drochaid Mhira which remains strongly Gaelic. Early career. A well-respected author/composer, his most popular songs include: "Away From The Roll Of The Sea", "Coal Town Road", "Kitty Bawn O'Brien", "Tie Me Down", "Here's To Song", "Sea People", and "You'll Be Home Again" — all published by Cabot Trail Music (SOCAN). He is best known for a composition called "Song for the Mira" that provided the theme as well as the sound track for an Atlantic Canadian film, Marion Bridge . "Song For the Mira" has been translated into Italian, Dutch, French, Scots Gaelic, Japanese, and Mi' kmaq, is available on well over 300 recordings, and is a standard in the Canadian choral-music repertoire. One of the most recorded songs ever by an eastern Canadian writer, "Out On The Mira" (an alternate title) has been covered by , Foster & Allen, Celtic Thunder, Daniel O'Donnell, Denny Doherty (of The Mamas & The Papas), Noel Harrison, Phil Coulter, The Canadian Tenors, Frank Patterson, The Los Angeles Children's Chorus, and scores of other noted performers. In 2018, it was inducted into The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. [3] [4] Out on the Mira on warm afternoons Old men go fishin' with black line and spoons. And, if they catch nothing, they never complain; I wish I was with them again. (Chorus:) Can you imagine a piece of the universe More fit for princes and kings? I'll trade you ten of your cities for Marion Bridge And the pleasure it brings. Later career. In the mid-1970s, MacGillivray penned Coal Town Road for Fergus O'Byrne of Ryan's Fancy. The song was later adopted as part of the regular repertoire of folk groups like Cockersdale (England), The Clark Family Group which includes Timothy Jeffery Clark, Simon Clark, Noah Clark and Sophia Clark (Bridgewater, Nova Scotia) and The Barra MacNeils (Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia). Coal Town Road documents an important part of Canadian history in that Canada has experienced the same types of labor and environmental exploitation as the United States—and has reacted in similar song-style ways. Significantly, this song is sung by the Nova Scotian coal-miner group, . [5] We never see the sun Down the coal town road, At a penny for the ton Where the coal trains load. When the shift comes up on top We're so thankful to be done We head home to sleep and dream About the coal town road. MacGillivray's songs are often performed by choral groups, with over 1000 choirs throughout the world performing his works in classical contexts. His Away from the Roll of the Sea is known in Italy as Vecchi Amici on YouTube and is sung in typically Italian operatic style by the group Coro Leone Bologna. [6] The song has also been performed in Korean by The Hanyang University Male Choir, and is known in Taiwanese as 世紀尋 跡 無垠聲情 on YouTube having been sung by The National Taiwan University Chorus. [7] Small craft in a harbour that's still and serene Give no indication what their ways have been. They rock at their moorings, all nestled in dreams Away from the roll of the sea. Style and modern influence. Instrumentally, his songs have been arranged for bagpipes, brass quintet, recorder ensemble, jazz ensemble, ukulele ensemble, massed brass & pipe band, guitar, violin, piano, and symphony suite. He is also one of the few composers to have a commercially produced alcoholic beverage named after one of his songs. "Cape Breton Silver", a specialty liquor made by Glenora Distillers and available in Nova Scotia outlets, was inspired by a MacGillivray composition of the same name. You've heard of the miners who tunnel for coal; The tale of their valour has often been told. But there's one class of hero that's misunderstood: The lads who mine silver in the Cape Breton woods. MacGillivray concluded his singing & playing career in the early 1980s in order to write songs and books and to make films about the musical traditions of . He continues to write and arrange music, has released a compilation CD, and is involved in the operation of Sea- Cape Music Ltd., the company which distributes his books. Books he has published include: Song For The Mira (1979), a collection of thirteen original songs. The Cape Breton Fiddler (1981), a historical and photographic look at Cape Breton's Scottish violin tradition. The Cape Breton Song Collection (1985), an anthology of the Island's best-loved compositions. A Cape Breton Ceilidh (1988), a historical and photographic look at Cape Breton's unique step-dancing and piano-playing traditions. The Nova Scotia Song Collection (1989). This anthology deals with the works of Hank Snow, Wilf Carter, Stan Rogers, Dr. Helen Creighton, etc. Diamonds In The Rough (Vols. 1 & 2), the story of The Men Of The Deeps, Cape Breton's coal mining chorus. Songs From The Mira (2001), a collection of thirty- two original songs. His children, Ciarán and Fiona MacGillivray, are also noted performers in the Celtic-music field. Awards and accolades. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree (St. Francis Xavier University), has been awarded an honorary doctorate by The University College of Cape Breton, and has been designated The Official Bard of Clan MacGillivray Canada. On December 13, 2013 he was appointed to the Order of Canada (2013). His citation of investiture to Rideau Hall reads as follows: Cape Breton's musical heritage has been enriched by the contributions of Allister MacGillivray. A musician and composer, he is beloved for his original songs, many of which depict the traditional way of life of Cape Breton coal miners and fishermen. His compositions are popular with both professional and amateur choirs, notably his "Song for the Mira", considered a classic and translated into several languages. His various anthologies and publications about fiddling, step dancing, and the Gaelic language have also helped to preserve the island's traditional culture. Allister MacGillivray, C.M., Albert Bridge (Nouvelle-Écosse) Par sa contribution, Allister MacGillivray a enrichi le patrimoine musical du Cap Breton. Musicien et compositeur, il est extrêmement apprécié pour ses chansons originales, dont beaucoup évoquent le mode de vie traditionnel des mineurs et des pêcheurs du Cap Breton. Ses compositions sont populaires auprès des chœurs professionnels et amateurs, tout particulièrement son œuvre Song for the Mira, considérée aujourd'hui comme un classique et traduite en plusieurs langues. Ses différentes anthologies et publications sur le violon et la danse populaires ainsi que sur le gaélique ont aussi contribué à préserver la culture traditionnelle de l'île. On May 6, 2018, in a ceremony in Halifax, NS, MacGillivray's "Song For the Mira" was inducted into The Canadian Songwriter's Hall of Fame. Related Research Articles. Cape Breton Island is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. Nova Scotia is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Most of the population are native English-speakers. Cape Breton Regional Municipality is the Canadian province of Nova Scotia's second largest municipality and the economic heart of Cape Breton Island. As of 2016 the municipality has a population of 94,285. The municipality was created in 1995 through the amalgamation of eight municipalities located in Cape Breton County. Music is a part of the warp and weft of the fabric of Nova Scotia's cultural life. This deep and lasting love of music is expressed through the performance and enjoyment of all types and genres of music. While popular music from many genres has experienced almost two decades of explosive growth and success in Nova Scotia, the province remains best known for its folk and traditional based music. Cape Breton fiddling is a regional violin style which falls within the Celtic music idiom. Cape Breton Island's fiddle music was brought to North America by Scottish immigrants during the Highland Clearances. These Scottish immigrants were primarily from Gaelic-speaking regions in the Scottish Highlands and the Outer Hebrides. Although fiddling has changed considerably since this time in Scotland, it is widely held that the tradition of Scottish fiddle music has been better preserved in Cape Breton. Kenzie MacNeil is a Canadian songwriter, performer, producer and director in television, film, radio and stage, and a former Conservative Party of Canada candidate. Glace Bay is a community in the eastern part of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada. It forms part of the general area referred to as Industrial Cape Breton. The Men of the Deeps is a male choral ensemble composed of former coal miners from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Dan Rory MacDonald was a Canadian fiddler who lived in Cape Breton. He is notable for his composition of many fiddle tunes. The Mira River is a Canadian river located in eastern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Sydney Mines is a community and former town in Canada's Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality. Davis Day , also known as Miners' Memorial Day is an annual day of remembrance observed on June 11 in coal mining communities in Nova Scotia, Canada to recognize all miners killed in the province's coal mines. Gordon Francis Sampson is a Canadian singer-songwriter and producer from Big Pond, Nova Scotia. Winston "Scotty" Fitzgerald (1914–1987) was a renowned Cape Breton fiddler. He was a pioneer in recorded performances of the music, and has heavily influenced the style and repertoire of later generations of players. The second CD released by Cape Breton's Celtic quartet, The Cottars. It was recorded at Lakewind Sound Studios in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and distributed by Warner Music. It was also released in Japan in 2004 by JVC Victor and followed by an extensive Japan tour. All the traditional songs and tunes were adapted and arranged by Allister MacGillivray and The Cottars and are published by Cabot Trail Music, SOCAN. Made in Cape Breton is the first of three albums by the Celtic band The Cottars. Recorded at Lakewind Sound Studios in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and released in 2002 by Warner Music. Albert Bridge is a Canadian rural community in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality. Marion Bridge is a Canadian rural community in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality. Sydney River-Mira-Louisbourg is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. The riding is represented by Brian Comer of the Progressive Conservative Party. " Rise Again " is a song recorded by Canadian music group The Rankin Family. It was released in 1993 as the first single from their third studio album, North Country . It peaked in the top 10 on the RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks chart, and was a Top 20 hit on the magazine's pop chart and a Top 40 hit on its country chart. Allister MacGillivray Biography. Allister MacGillivray CM, D. Litt (honors), is a Canadian singer/songwriter, guitarist, and music historian from the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia. He was born January 17, 1948 in the coal-mining and fishing town of Glace Bay. Contents. 1 Early life 2 Early career 3 Later career 4 Style and modern influence 5 Awards and accolades 6 References. Early life. He began performing at the age of seven, later became a boy chorister and, as a teen, sang in local folk bands. During his twenties and thirties, he traveled the world as a guitar accompanist with some prominent Celtic performers, including Ryan's Fancy, Makem & Clancy (Tommy Makem, Liam Clancy) and John Allan Cameron. With Cameron, he performed on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville in 1970, earning a lengthy standing ovation and stealing the show from the likes of Hank Snow, Roy Rogers, and Bill Monroe. Since leaving the road, MacGillivray has lived close to the village of Marion Bridge, also known as Drochaid Mhira which remains strongly Gaelic. Early career. A well-respected author/composer, his most popular songs include: "Away From The Roll Of The Sea", "Coal Town Road", "Kitty Bawn O'Brien", "Tie Me Down", "Here's To Song", "Sea People", and "You'll Be Home Again" — all published by Cabot Trail Music (SOCAN). He is best known for a composition called "Song for the Mira" that provided the theme as well as the sound track for an Atlantic Canadian film, Marion Bridge . "Song For the Mira" has been translated into Italian, Dutch, French, Scots Gaelic, Japanese, and Mi' kmaq, is available on well over 300 recordings, and is a standard in the Canadian choral-music repertoire. One of the most recorded songs ever by an eastern Canadian writer, "Out On The Mira" (an alternate title) has been covered by Anne Murray, Foster & Allen, Celtic Thunder, Daniel O'Donnell, Denny Doherty (of The Mamas & The Papas), Noel Harrison, Phil Coulter, The Canadian Tenors, Frank Patterson, The Los Angeles Children's Chorus, and scores of other noted performers. In 2018, it was inducted into The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. Out on the Mira on warm afternoons Old men go fishin' with black line and spoons. And, if they catch nothing, they never complain; I wish I was with them again. (Chorus:) Can you imagine a piece of the universe More fit for princes and kings? I'll trade you ten of your cities for Marion Bridge And the pleasure it brings. Later career. In the mid-1970s, MacGillivray penned Coal Town Road for Fergus O'Byrne of Ryan's Fancy. The song was later adopted as part of the regular repertoire of folk groups like Cockersdale (England), The Clark Family Group which includes Timothy Jeffery Clark, Simon Clark, Noah Clark and Sophia Clark (Bridgewater, Nova Scotia) and The Barra MacNeils (Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia). Coal Town Road documents an important part of Canadian history in that Canada has experienced the same types of labor and environmental exploitation as the United States—and has reacted in similar song-style ways. Significantly, this song is sung by the Nova Scotian coal-miner group, The Men of the Deeps. We never see the sun Down the coal town road, At a penny for the ton Where the coal trains load. When the shift comes up on top We're so thankful to be done We head home to sleep and dream About the coal town road. MacGillivray's songs are often performed by choral groups, with over 1000 choirs throughout the world performing his works in classical contexts. His Away from the Roll of the Sea is known in Italy as Vecchi Amici on YouTube and is sung in typically Italian operatic style by the group Coro Leone Bologna. The song has also been performed in Korean by The Hanyang University Male Choir, and is known in Taiwanese as 世紀尋跡 無垠聲情 on YouTube having been sung by The National Taiwan University Chorus. Small craft in a harbour that's still and serene Give no indication what their ways have been. They rock at their moorings, all nestled in dreams Away from the roll of the sea. Style and modern influence. Instrumentally, his songs have been arranged for bagpipes, brass quintet, recorder ensemble, jazz ensemble, ukulele ensemble, massed brass & pipe band, guitar, violin, piano, and symphony suite. He is also one of the few composers to have a commercially produced alcoholic beverage named after one of his songs. "Cape Breton Silver", a specialty liquor made by Glenora Distillers and available in Nova Scotia outlets, was inspired by a MacGillivray composition of the same name. You've heard of the miners who tunnel for coal; The tale of their valour has often been told. But there's one class of hero that's misunderstood: The lads who mine silver in the Cape Breton woods. MacGillivray concluded his singing & playing career in the early 1980s in order to write songs and books and to make films about the musical traditions of Cape Breton Island. He continues to write and arrange music, has released a compilation CD, and is involved in the operation of Sea- Cape Music Ltd., the company which distributes his books. Books he has published include: Song For The Mira (1979), a collection of thirteen original songs. The Cape Breton Fiddler (1981), a historical and photographic look at Cape Breton's Scottish violin tradition. The Cape Breton Song Collection (1985), an anthology of the Island's best-loved compositions. A Cape Breton Ceilidh (1988), a historical and photographic look at Cape Breton's unique step-dancing and piano-playing traditions. The Nova Scotia Song Collection (1989). This anthology deals with the works of Hank Snow, Wilf Carter, Stan Rogers, Dr. Helen Creighton, etc. Diamonds In The Rough (Vols. 1 & 2), the story of The Men Of The Deeps, Cape Breton's coal mining chorus. Songs From The Mira (2001), a collection of thirty- two original songs. His children, Ciarán and Fiona MacGillivray, are also noted performers in the Celtic-music field. Awards and accolades. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree (St. Francis Xavier University), has been awarded an honorary doctorate by The University College of Cape Breton, and has been designated The Official Bard of Clan MacGillivray Canada. On December 13, 2013 he was appointed to the Order of Canada (2013). His citation of investiture to Rideau Hall reads as follows: Cape Breton's musical heritage has been enriched by the contributions of Allister MacGillivray. A musician and composer, he is beloved for his original songs, many of which depict the traditional way of life of Cape Breton coal miners and fishermen. His compositions are popular with both professional and amateur choirs, notably his "Song for the Mira", considered a classic and translated into several languages. His various anthologies and publications about fiddling, step dancing, and the Gaelic language have also helped to preserve the island's traditional culture. Allister MacGillivray, C.M., Albert Bridge (Nouvelle-Écosse) Par sa contribution, Allister MacGillivray a enrichi le patrimoine musical du Cap Breton. Musicien et compositeur, il est extrêmement apprécié pour ses chansons originales, dont beaucoup évoquent le mode de vie traditionnel des mineurs et des pêcheurs du Cap Breton. Ses compositions sont populaires auprès des chœurs professionnels et amateurs, tout particulièrement son œuvre Song for the Mira, considérée aujourd'hui comme un classique et traduite en plusieurs langues. Ses différentes anthologies et publications sur le violon et la danse populaires ainsi que sur le gaélique ont aussi contribué à préserver la culture traditionnelle de l'île. On May 6, 2018, in a ceremony in Halifax, NS, MacGillivray's "Song For the Mira" was inducted into The Canadian Songwriter's Hall of Fame. References. Description above from the Wikipedia article Allister MacGillivray, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ISBN 13: 9780969220800. Allister MacGillivray is a Cape Breton born author, songwriter, guitarist, record producer and photographer. He has written several books on Cape Breton (and Nova Scotia) music, including song collections and music histories. As a composer, his songs have been recorded around the world. 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It was the end of summer, at a friend's cottage in Prince Edward Island, when a young, homesick Allister MacGillivray composed a song that would become a Cape Breton anthem, beloved both on the island and around the world. Now, 45 years later, Song for the Mira is being inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. "I was able to crystallize all the things I'd been missing at the end of August on a rainy night playing the classical guitar in this little cottage," he recalls. "It was a completely selfish, autobiographical song." Shortly after, when he was reunited with Cape Breton music supporters Tic and Emily Butler at their bungalow on the Mira River, he played them the song. Covered hundreds of times. Tic loved it, said MacGillivray. He played it for folk singer John Allan Cameron a month or two later, and soon after Cameron featured Song for the Mira on his new album. MacGillivray never imagined in 1973 that it would go on to be recorded hundreds of times, in several languages. "I sort of thought it was one of those things that maybe by mentioning Marion Bridge, by mentioning the Mira River, the song wouldn't have much appeal off the island. But I was quite surprised when it did." MacGillivray was born in Glace Bay, but the images that he paints with his lyrics all stem from his own memories of summer nights spent at the Butler's cottage near Salmon River bridge. "Kids out at night in their boats, and shouting back and forth to the shore. And the bonfires. And telling ghost stories. It's just about all exactly as I saw it." An Anne Murray favourite. MacGillivray will receive his award at the East Coast Industry and Music Awards on Sunday, May 6, in Halifax. The East Cost Music Awards and the songwriters organization have announced they will partner each year to induct a new song written by an East Coast artist into the hall of fame. The song really took off outside Canada when it was covered in 1982 by Anne Murray, who touts it as one of her favourites. It has become particularly popular in Ireland, where in the 1980s Song for the Mira was in the top 10 on the charts by two different artists at the same time, MacGillivray said. "So in Ireland the song is very well-known, and sometimes they think it's Irish," he said. Personal collection of 300 renditions. The song has been recorded in Japanese, Scots Gaelic, Mi'kmaq and many other languages. There's a "robust" Italian version, and a bagpipe rendition which "puts the chills through me," said MacGillivray. He has a personal collection of 300 renditions of the song at home, but there are many more, he said. MacGillivray is particularly grateful to a fellow Glace Bay musician Stuart Calvert, who arranged a choral version of Mira that has caught on in with choirs around the world. He said he has often experienced the excitement of being in a bar or other venues where his song is played and sung along with, and no one knows the composer is in the room. He keeps that information to himself, and just basks in the moment, he said. Favourite versions. MacGillivray has a theory about why his composition has had such lasting power, and continues to be popular decades after it was written. He thinks it's because songs written in the "folk" style, as opposed to the more modern pop idiom, have a special endurance. "Those songs — like Danny Boy — seem to go on forever." Also the composer of the well-known Away From the Roll of the Sea and Coal Town Road , MacGillivray said he's appreciative of the various treatments given to Song for the Mira by recording artists, but he has his favourites. He said he is moved by singer-songwriter Matt Minglewood's "blockbuster" performance, in which he "makes the song his own." 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