Nova Scotia Archives

Helen Creighton: Folklife

Sound Recordings

Audio Reels

At the center of Helen Creighton’s work was her process of collecting audio recordings. In this section of the resource you can experience everything from local anecdotes to music hall jam sessions. To support these recordings, collector’s notes from Helen and her researchers, as well as added information from the processing archivist have been provided.


Audio Reel 5711

Includes recording number: 2567 Saladin Mutiny; 2568 Bonny Prince Charlie; 2569 Three Leaves of Shamrock; 2570 Lovely Jane; 2571 Saladin Mutiny; 2572 Town of Bandon; 2573 Mon Cher Voisin; 2574 Le Chanson du Guerrier; 2575 Chanson de Rimouski listen for more...


Audio Reel 5712

Includes recording number: 2576 Milling song (French Acadian); 2577 Dans Les Prison de Nantes (Prisoner de Nantes); 2578 L'habitant de Sainte-Barbe (The Farmer of St. Barbe Goes to Montreal); 2579 Dh'olainn deoch a laimh mo ruin; 2580 Oran Do Cheap Breatainn; 2581 Leis a' Mhaighdinn; 2582 Gaelic - My Ain House; 2583 Hills and Vales of Upper Margaree, The - Gaelic; 2584 Hills and Vales of Upper Margaree, The - Gaelic listen for more...


Audio Reel 5713

Includes recording number: 2586 Young Shepherd; 2587 Jack Timmins; 2588 West Side Gals; 2589 Time To Be Made A Wife; 2590 There's No Place Like Home; 2591 Come All You Young Fellows That Ramble; 2592 Birchen Canoe; 2593 Little Harbour Song; 2594 Mary McGuire listen for more...


Audio Reel 5714

Includes recording number: 2598 Time To Be Made A Wife; 2599 Gallows; 2600 I Courted a Pretty Girl; 2601 Down By the Shannon Side; 2602 Love o'God Razor; 2603 Carrion Crow; 2604 To Toss and Dry His Hay; 2605 Lookie Loo; 2606 Broken Ring listen for more...


Audio Reel 5715

Includes recording number: 2611 Strawberry Roan; 2612 Marrow Bones; 2613 Very Seldom; 2614 Nellie; 2614 Glengyle and O'Neil; 2616 Letty Lea; 2617 Doherty's Wake; 2618 Easter Snow, The; 2619 listen for more...


Audio Reel 5716

Includes recording number: 2620 Burns and His Highland Mary; 2621 Brown Girl, The; 2622 Erin A'Green ; 2623 Richard and I; 2624 Golden Vanity, The; 2625 Little Too Small, A listen for more...


Audio Reel 5717

Includes recording number: 2626 Campbell The Drover; 2627 Overns Flowery Vale; 2628 Plains of Waterloo; 2629 As I Roved Out One Evening; 2630 Phoebe; 2631 Drummer, The; 2632 As I Went Out Walking listen for more...


Audio Reel 5718

Includes recording number: 2633 New Broom Sweeps Clean, A; 2634 Motto For Every Man, A; 2635 Rose of Glenshee, The; 2636 Song of All Nations ; 2637 His Jacket Was Blue; 2638 His Jacket Was Blue; 2639 Banks of Claudie; 2640 He's Young But He's Daily A-Growing listen for more...


Audio Reel 5719

Includes recording number: 2641 Jimmy and I Will Get Married; 2642 Pretty Susan; 2643 Henry Stewart; 2644 Jimmy and Nancy; 2645 Drive On The Cart; 2646 Bid Adieu To Riley; 2647 When I Wake In The Morning; 2648 Casting Lots; 2649 Ghost of the Peanut Stand, The listen for more...


Audio Reel 5720

Includes recording number: 2653 True Lover's Discoursion, The; 2654 Bold Irving; 2655 Sea Captain, The; 2656 Three Men Went A-Hunting listen for more...


Audio Reel 5721

Includes recording number: 2657 Broken Ring Song; 2658 Pride of Glencoe, The; 2659; 2660 There Was A Wealthy Farmer; 2661 Peggy Walker; 2662 Seven Years in Dublin; 2663 When Young Men Get Married; 2664 Stormy Winds of Winter, The; 2665 Toothache listen for more...


Audio Reel 5740

Includes recording number: 2669 Gypsy Laddie; 2670 John King; 2671 Blackwater Side, The; 2672 My Youthful Days; 2673 Daniel O'Connell; 2674 Morrissey and the Black; 2675 Young Tyler; 2676 She's Like The Swan; 2677 My Mary Ann listen for more...


Audio Reel 5741

Includes recording number: 2690 City of Baltimore; 2691 I Will Sail the Salt Seas Over; 2692 Weaver is Better, A; 2693 Wexford Girl, The; 2694 Irish Jubilee, The; 2695 Wedding At Ballyporeen, The; 2696 After Dinner; 2697 Father, Father, the Worst of Men; 2698 Roving Journeyman, The listen for more...


Audio Reel 5742

Includes recording number: 2704 Felix and Young William; 2705; 2706 Oxfordshire Captain, The; 2707 Jack Munroe; 2708 House Carpenter, The; 2709 Brave Nelson; 2710 Once I Had a Daughter; 2711 Just as I Was Going Away listen for more...


Audio Reel 5743

Includes recording number: 2712 Working on the Canal; 2713 Donnybrook; 2714 Driving My Pony; 2715 Pat Roach; 2716 Said Mary O'Shea; 2717 Skewball; 2718 Jerusalem Cuckoo; 2719 Green Linnet, The; 2720 On the Lone Barren Isle listen for more...


Interested in a particular style of folk song or type of story? Helen often assigned a genre term to her recordings. Choose a genre below to listen.

Interested in recordings in a particular language? Helen recorded people singing and speaking in multiple languages. Language terms were assigned by Creighton herself. Choose a language below to listen:

Interested in recordings with a particular instrument? Helen recorded people playing and signing with multiple instruments. Instrument solos and/or accompaniment were assigned by Creighton herself. Choose an instrument below to listen:

               

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