Thirty-one Cylinders

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode, Jer tells the story of how a team of Passamaquoddy elders, library preservation specialists and scholars restored and re-vitalized a series of traditional songs first recorded on wax cylinders in 1890. Featuring guests Donald Soctomah, Jane Anderson, Fenella France and Peter Alyea, and music by Dwayne Tomah, Peter Selmore, Pierre LeCout and Jeremy Dutcher.

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Tags: passamaquoddy, traditional knowledge, wax cylinders, jane Anderson, library preservation, podcast, guest speaker