Maine Memory Network

Music in Maine - Community Music

"… camps where he sold his professionally printed songs, lessening the need to learn the songs by ear."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 129-142

"Grant song Gilman Townsend 1872 election results Death of Horace Greeley Irish National Movement Hannibal Hamlin"

Historic Hallowell - The Stevens Training Center Serenaders

"There they recorded six songs for a record album entitled Stars Over Stevens. Nothing is known of the individual singers. The Serenaders from 1965."

Music in Maine - MAKE

"… and craftspeople who make instruments, write songs, and make music in the home and community settings."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 4 of 5

"The workers would sing songs and play in the barrels. Edwena also had potato fights with her brothers and other kids."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Annie Martin as zephyr, Bangor, 1866

"They sang a song that began "Pretty little zephyrs we, Swiftly through the air we bound, Throwing blossoms all around," as they threw flower petals…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Society Copes

"'Stein Song,' 1930Maine Historical Society Stein Song, 1930 New arrangement by Rudy Vallee (1901-1986) Collections of Maine Historical Society…"

Music in Maine - Sacred Music

"Today the Sabbathday Lake Shakers sing about 1,000 songs as part of their active catalog. Shaker music originally concentrated on acapella march…"

Music in Maine - Music and Television

"… from local high schools who performed hit songs from the radio, often lip synching and sometimes singing live."

Hollingsworth Fine Arts

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Republican Wigwam, Bangor, 1872

"Beckmore the joiner." The marchers song is "Hurrah!! Hurrah!! Whora, Whora, we will sing the jubilee."

Lincoln, Maine - Frederick A. Edwards

"Mr. Edwards was the composer of numerous songs and one called "The Flag of ’62." This Lincoln native was the Principal Musician with the 1st Maine…"

Music in Maine - Longfellow Family Music

"… the Longfellow family created and used manuscript song pages to entertain family and guests, including songs popular in the 1750s and early 1800s…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"… performing medicine shows and traditional song and dance, selling crafts and posing for photographs in Indian dress."

Maine Folklife Center, University of Maine

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Music in Maine - Music in Maine

"Wabanaki songs reaching back 13,000 years are distinct from Franco chansons. Lumberjack work chants and sailor shanties differ from operas sung by…"

Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"… in the American South, a blend of English folk songs, Scots-Irish fiddle and dance music, sacred music, and banjo and blues from formerly enslaved…"

Music in Maine - Country Music

"The doom-filled trucking song hit #5 on the country Billboard chart in 1965, and Cash Box magazine named Curless the “Most Promising New Male…"

Music in Maine - Music Makers

"… Records in New York recorded White performing songs from her youth. She wrote in her diary, "Oh! My records! These new recordings make me happy."

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"The John R Braden March Song © 1922 (sung to the tune of “Boom Our State” also by Byron Verge) VERSE ONE There’s a song of triumph rising clear with…"

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Memorial Library

"… write a creative piece (haiku, cinquain, story, song) about it” There are lots of books Mary B. first manager Nineteen twenty-three Works Cited…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"The cover of Songs from the Woods of Maine, by Julia H. May in 1894, is shown at right, with the poem, The Happy Hills of Strong, from that book."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Grand Army of the Republic

"… a table or out in the hall and sang old war songs, talked about war experiences, and swapped accounts of their deeds."

Music in Maine - Military Marching Bands

"Directed by commanders, the drummer songs controlled infantry soldier’s daily activities, from morning Reveille to the Tattoo beat for bedtime."