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The Valley of Green and Blue
Musicians: Don Freed, Dan Frechette, Richard Moody, Gilles Fournier, Jeremy Rusu, Tanya Elizabeth, Sierra
Nobel, Scott Nobel, Trevor Mills, Jordan McConnell, and Leonard Podolak
Format: CD
Price: $19.95
Grade Level: All Ages
Don Freed’s The Valley of Green and Blue celebrates Métis independence and courage in such songs as
“Losing Freedom,” “Jews, Gypsies and the Half-Caste Man,” “Ride, Gabriel, Ride!,” “Johnny Sansregret,”
“One Year Gone,” and the poignant “When This Valley.” The CD demonstrates that the Métis spirit remains
defiant and has not been broken by 100 years of colonization.
Drops of Brandy: An Anthology of Métis Music
ISBN: 0-920915-63-9
Contributors: Leah Dorion, Lyndon Smith, Trent Bruner, and Dr. David Kaplan
Format: Book, English
Awards: Nominated—2002 First Peoples Publishing, Saskatchewan Book Awards
Price: $15.00
Grade Level: All Ages
Drops of Brandy: An Anthology of Métis Music—the companion book to Drops of Brandy: and Other Traditional
Métis Tunes—contains biographies, photographs, sheet music, and stories about the importance of the
fiddle in Métis culture, as well as a history of each fiddle tune used in this music compilation.
Drops of Brandy: and Other Traditional Métis Tunes
Musicians: Gilbert Anderson, John Arcand, Mel Bedard, Albert Boyer, Trent Bruner, Richard Calihoo, Henry
Gardipy, Frederick Genthon, Edward Lafferty, Richard Lafferty, Emile Lavallée, Gary Lepine, and Homer Poitras
Format: CDs
Price: Volume 1—two CDs $19.95
Volume 2—two CDs $19.95
Grade Level: All Ages
Drops of Brandy: and Other Traditional Métis Tunes is the most ambitious traditional Métis fiddle recording
to date. These CDs feature accomplished traditional Métis fiddlers from across the Métis Homeland, and
includes many popular traditional Métis fiddle tunes and many rare and previously unrecorded jigs and reels.
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Music and Dance