Julie Mainstone Savas has created a living history of the music handed down for generations within one family, landing finally upon the ears of the youngest child, Carrie Spinney Grover. Through letters, field recordings, Library of Congress recordings, diaries, and Carrie's own recollections of her musical childhood, Savas takes us on a musical and historical journey through the eyes of Grover's immigrant ancestors in Nova Scotia from the late 1700s through to the early 1900s when Carrie musters her remaining strength to ensure every last family song and fiddle tune is preserved for future generations.
Carrie Grover Project
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Julie Mainstone Savas has created a living history of the music handed down for generations within one family, landing finally upon the ears of the youngest child, Carrie Spinney Grover. Through letters, field recordings, Library of Congress recordings, diaries, and Carrie's own recollections of her musical childhood, Savas takes us on a musical and historical journey through the eyes of Grover's immigrant ancestors in Nova Scotia from the late 1700s through to the early 1900s when Carrie musters her remaining strength to ensure every last family song and fiddle tune is preserved for future generations.
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March 1, 2023
Episode 6
This final podcast covers a lot of ground beginning in 1892 when Carrie and her family relocate from Nova Scotia to Newry, Maine. Over the next few decades she’s immersed in family life, and with the passing of her parents a dedication to recalling all the songs she’d ever heard her parents sing takes root. The 1940s peak for her as she’s recorded by prominent song collectors, regional folk festivals invite her to speak and sing, and she strives to secure the preservation of her family’s music through the assistance of Gould Academy. Disappointment and frustration follow as publication of her songbook fails to materialize. Nevertheless she is remains unsinkable in her determination to continue her work, and speaks through her letters of the immense joy she’s found in gathering her family songs and recalling childhood memories at Sunken Lake. Recorded at Green Frog Productions and Cloud Studio.
June 29, 2021
Episode 5
The fifth podcast focuses entirely on Carrie’s memories of her childhood at Sunken Lake where Carrie was raised and spent the first twelve years of her life. Included are stories of song singing with her family at home, and with neighbors and friends when they gathered in one another’s homes for a meal followed by music and dancing. We hear tales of sibling pranks and the fun they had together, and of her parents, George and Eliza Spinney. Carrie gives detailed accounts of how they made soap and summer hats, how they dyed their wool, and the long hours her mother spent knitting at the hearth. Fiddler Randy Miller plays tunes from Carrie’s collected fiddle tunes, Lisa Null sings Bonny Light Horseman and Remember the Poor, Sara Gray sings Molly Varne, I sing Consolation to Victoria Davies piano accompaniment, and So I Let Him/Her Go, and Carrie’s sister’s grand-daughter, Marie York, recites a poem written by her grandmother.
November 8, 2020
Episode 4
This podcast draws upon Carrie Grover’s earliest memories in rural Nova Scotia during the late 1880s. Through her detailed remembrances we come to know her immediate family and the details of their daily life. Present throughout her recounting is the music- their traditional folksongs, ballads and fiddle tunes. The following musicians recorded fresh song versions from Grover’s collection: Kate MacLeod sings two songs: Dark Eyed Sailor and Mary’s Dream; Niamh Parsons sings Croppy Boy; Nora Rodes sings Lass Amang the Heather; and Julie Mainstone Savas, sings James and Florence. Carrie Grover sings a song she learned from her mother entitled Bold Fisherman; and a poem written by Carrie’s sister, Bertha, is read by Bertha’s granddaughter, Marie York.
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