In 2017, musician Brendan McLeod of the Vancouver folk band the Fugitives watched his mother compete at the Canadian Masters Curling Championships in Guelph, Ont. At the banquet afterward, he spoke with an older woman. Doing the math, he determined that she had grown up in the 1940s and belonged to a generation that today is sometimes difficult for younger people to comprehend.
They lived with no technology, drank water directly from lakes and bought houses for five dollars, McLeod thought jokingly to himself. Going by news reels from the day, her generation and older lived in a black and white world, talking funny and walking in a Chaplinesque way. “You think of them as not real,” McLeod, 40, says. “That they weren’t ever young people who had the same desires and dreams that you did.”Vimy
multiple times as a child, visited the nearby home of John McCrae, the author of the First World War poemWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Reading the poem and speaking to the older woman at the curling reception it dawned on him that the young people from previous generations were no different than people today.Ridge
, a monologue with music that retells the Canadian military victory at Vimy Ridge in France in April, 1917., a collection of First World War front-line soldiers' songs updated with new melodies and contemporary roots-music arrangements. It drops Nov. 10, one day before Remembrance Day, on the Toronto folk label Borealis Records.
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