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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    A cute eco-pack with matte finish. I poured over the liner-notes for this album and even made my own fonts. Includes lyrics, descriptions of each song, a letter to the reader, my original drawings in emerald acrylic ink on orange paper, and a photo too! A lot to read and look at!

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Crossing the Causeway, Tow Truck Song, Òran Boisdale (Fail ì Fail ò), Bon Garçon (ft. Nicole Deveau), Mo Mhàthair, and Les biens-nommés. , and , .

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about

We begin with the view I grew up with, looking across from the beach to see Cape Breton in the distance, all along the Sunrise Trail from Mahoney’s Beach to Cape George. As I wrote this song, my thoughts were with all the folks who were unable to visit in 2020 due to border closures. My cousins Cassie and Maggie join me on harmonies on the verses, and also joined me on the beach for island gazing. Vocables typical of French, Gaelic, Mi’kmaq, and English are the sounds you hear in the choruses. Syllabic sounds without meaning, vocables are found in these and many other cultures.

lyrics

Dear Island,
I’m writing you to say
That the feelings that I have for you
Will never go away, away
I’ll send them across the bay

Dear Island,
Your moods they fall and rise
Glowing in my mind, misty
On the horizon line oh aye
Today they evade my eye

Way ah hey
Hi ri don den
La dee da day do

Dear Island,
The birds fly overhead
No ocean, bridge, or flooded ridge
Could keep them from your stead, away,
If the skies are blue or gray

Dear Island,
We slept upon your hills
Where the rising tide would not abide
The fields where we lay, oh eh
At sunrise would we wake

Dear Island,
May this letter find you sane
All the nights and days since we parted ways
Can not escape my mind, away
On a printed heart they’ll stay, oh eh
On a printed heart they’ll stay

Dear Island,
I’m dreaming of the day
Of a sweet return to you I yearn
‘Til our schemes gang aft aglay, oh eh
You’ll welcome us to stay

credits

from Crossing the Causeway, released November 25, 2022
Cassie & Maggie MacDonald : Harmony Vocals on verses | Morgan Toney : Fiddle, Vocals, appears courtesy of Ishkōdé Records | Bradley Murphy : Piano, Fiddle, Vocals | Robyn Carrigan : Harmony Vocals on chorus | Vocals : Shawnee Paul | Mary Beth : Guitar, Accordion, Bass

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Mary Beth Carty Antigonish, Nova Scotia

Humain créative de l'Acadie de la Nouvelle-Écosse.

Creative human from Nova Scotia.

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