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    Compact Discs are the traditional method of listening to music in late 18th Century Ireland, Scotland, and the Canadian Maritimes. Using an ancient technique called "digitization", Celtic craftsmen spun silver into tiny ones and zeroes using looms, then sold the precious discs to their English masters. At parties, the English aristocrats would then produce special music-goats, which would decode the ones and zeroes and bleat the tunes they read. While ancient Celtic digitization and goat-reading have been lost to history, we present the next best thing.

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I live in the village of Harris, Saskatchewan, and I like it here. Many small-towners have a rotten attitude about the place they live. But I love the peace. I love that the beauty of the wilderness can be found just a few paces past my doorstep. -Jeremy

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As you’re driving the plains – don’t blink or you’ll miss it –
There’s a cluster of houses and aspen.
If you don’t know its name I won’t hold it against you.
Believe me friend, no-one is askin’.
If you turn at the sign, you’ll see the hotel/bar,
A store and a rusty old playground.
O, me and this place, two tired old ruins.
I live here. I love it. It’s my town.

Chorus:
So dig me down deep, o dig me down deep,
O dig me down deep in the ground.
When I’m laid to sleep, just dig me down deep
In the grasses so sweet in my town.

O the winters are cruel and seem never-ending
But the sun in the spring blazes high.
It calls forth the grass and the lark in the morning
And chevrons of geese flying by.
In my soldiering days I smelled flow’rs at Messina
And Dutch gardens high of renown.
But there’s nothing so sweet in all of this wide world
As the cottonwoods blooming in my town.

Chorus

My cozy white house has stood for ten decades
And five generations of children.
My hearth and my chair and my neat little garden,
Are my own tiny corner of Eden.
O my rotten kids are plotting to stick me
In a home for old loonies on lockdown.
If they send me a car, I’ll greet it with buckshot.
They won’t take me alive from my town.

Chorus

A Luftwaffe bomb killed my brother Billy.
He’s buried with pals at Ancona.
And my brother Ted got sick of the winters.
He was cremated in California.
But I’ve got a plot in the graveyard in my town.
In death, we’ll have a reunion.
My wife and my parents and six-year-old daughter,
By starlight we’ll hold our communion.

Chorus

credits

from Looking Out for Better Weather, released September 30, 2020
My Town, by Jeremy A. Cook, and The Frost is all Over, traditional.

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The Residuals Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan's one-of-a-kind Prairie Celtic band, the Residuals, has been playing acoustic folk music for over ten years. Drawing on Irish, Scottish, and Maritime music, they are at the forefront of a living Prairie Celtic tradition.

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