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July 21 & 22, 2006 |
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Celebrating one of the Island's most famous (and infamous) songwriters |
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| Born in Tyne Valley in 1845, Larry Gorman was well-known in Prince Edward Island, the Miramichi and Maine for his satirical songs. No one was spared: friends, relatives, co-workers, enemies. he "made songs" about shortcomings in human nature, about people he considered lazy, miserly, abusive, or just plain stupid. He made songs about people he worked with in the lumber woods, and he wrote about people at home on the Island. Folks would go out of their way to be pleasant to Gorman, for fear that he would "song" them. The words were clever, and many of them, such as "the Shan Van Vogh" and "The Baptists", are still sung today Larry Gorman died in Maine in 1917, at the age of 70. | |||||
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