ossory
St. John's is the most Irish-sounding city in North America, and this is its kitchen party: button accordion out front, ugly stick rattling, male and female voices trading the whole way through. Free songbooks handed out with the cod-liver oil, fog on the Narrows, a half-hour time zone all its own, and one quiet minute in the middle for the summer the fish stopped.
Stay Where Youre To
Style
Traditional Newfoundland-Irish folk fused with driving Celtic folk-rock at 148 BPM in 4/4 with a heavy off-beat lift; button accordion leading every melody and fiddle answering underneath, bodhran, tin whistle, mandolin, hard acoustic strum, walking bass and full rock kit from the first chorus, homemade wooden rattle over the choruses, male and female leads in equal measure with a rough pub crowd behind them, in a broad rhotic Hiberno-English Newfoundland accent held unbroken throughout.