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 5881

Includes recording number: 3454 Rosie O'Grady (Rosy O'Greaty); 3455 Old McDougall (Old MacDonald Had A Farm); 3456 listen for more...


Audio Reel 5882

Includes recording number: 3457; 3458 La Complainte de Springhill; 3459 Unidentified lullaby sung in French; 3460 I Came From Arichat; 3461 Unidentified song sung in gaelic; 3462 Unidentified song sung in gaelic listen for more...


Audio Reel 5883

Includes recording number: 3463 Spinning Wheel, The; 3464 Finvola, the Gem of the Roe; 3465 Erin's Flowery Vale; 3466 Bonny Wee Angus; 3467 Pride of Kildare; 3468 Little Moose Hill; 3469 Cecilia; 3470 La Chanson Des Filles A Magnition; 3471 La Chanson A Rimouski listen for more...


Audio Reel 5884

Includes recording number: 3475 Le Menier Ette Sergent; 3476; 3477; 3478 Pride of Kildare; 3479 Little Moose Hill (McInnes's Hill); 3480 Hush, The Waves Are Rolling In listen for more...


Audio Reel 5885

Includes recording number: 3481 Silvery Tide, The; 3482 Dark Eyed Sailor, The; 3483 Preacher and the Bear, The; 3484 Erin's Flowery Vale; 3485 My Cottage-O listen for more...


Audio Reel 5886

Includes recording number: 3486 Trois Beaux Canards; 3487 French - La Bouteille, Ma Bouteille; 3488; 3489 Captain Wedderburn's Courtship; 3490 Cecelia; 3491 Unidentified song sung in French; 3492 Unidentified song sung in French; 3493 Dreadful Ghost, The; 3494 Silvery Tide, The listen for more...


Audio Reel 5887

Includes recording number: 3496 Gallant Brigantine; 3497 Bonny House O'Airlie, The; 3498 Nell Flaherty's Drake; 3499 Come All My Old Comrades; 3500; 3501; 3502; 3503; 3504 listen for more...


Audio Reel 5888

Includes recording number: 3510 Unidentified song; 3511; 3512 Chezzetcook Song; 3513 Preacher and the Bear, The; 3514; 3515 listen for more...


Audio Reel 5889

Includes recording number: 3516 My Cottage O; 3517 Bonny Wee Angus; 3518 Mary Hamilton; 3519 Mary Hamilton; 3520 Hush The Waves Are Rolling In; 3521 Mary Hamilton listen for more...


Audio Reel 5890

Includes recording number: 3522 Bonny Wee Angus; 3523 Mary Hamilton; 3524 Mary Hamilton; 3526 Mary Hamilton; 3527 McGregor's Lament; 3528 Boatie Rows, The; 3529 Massacre of the MacPherson; 3530 Ho Ro Mo Nighean Donn Bhoidheach; 3531 Fhir A Bhata listen for more...


Audio Reel 5891

Includes recording number: 3534 Little Low Plain, The; 3535 Gypsie Laddie, The; 3536 Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold; 3537 Here's A Health To Bonny Scotland; 3538 Dumb Girl, The; 3539; 3540 St. John's Girl listen for more...


Audio Reel 5892

Includes recording number: 3541 Bonny Gypsy Lass, The; 3542 Erin's Flowery Vale; 3543 Old Whisky Still, The; 3544 Wait Until the Moon Shines Out Upon the Water; 3545 Lord Bateman; 3546 Black Sheep, The; 3547 Patrick Riley; 3548 Clancy's Wooden Wedding listen for more...


Audio Reel 5893

Includes recording number: 3549 Virgin Rocks, The; 3550 In Canso Strait; 3551 Greenland's Coast, The; 3552; 3553 Pride of Glencoe, The (The Mantle So Green); 3554 Johnny Sullivan (The Moncton Tragedine) listen for more...


Audio Reel 5894

Includes recording number: 3555; 3556; 3557 Chezzetcook Song, The; 3558 Cradle Song, The; 3559; 3560 Old Roger Rum; 3561 Nothing Too Good for the Irish; 3562 Our Goodman; 3563 listen for more...


Audio Reel 5895

Includes recording number: 3556 Jam At Gerry's Rocks, The; 3564; 3565 My Cape Breton Home; 3567 Mary Hamilton; 3568 Birdie Tell (Shere Are You Going Pretty Bird); 3569 Gaelic - song about McOdrum; 3570 Bonny Bunch of Roses O; 3571 We're the Boys Behind the Guns; 3572 Girl that Lost Her Gaelic, The (sung in gaelic) 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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