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From the earliest days of settlement in this remote section of New York State, and even prior to that with travelling groups of Mohawks and other Native American hunters, music has sustained the people of the North Country, AND, we\u2019re fortunate that so much of it has been documented and preserved for us to enjoy today.<\/p>\n
French-Canadian loggers and trappers, Yankee settlers from New England, waves of British Isles and Irish immigrants coming directly across or down from Atlantic Canada, rural New Yorkers in search of work, escaped and freed slaves \u2013 \u2013 each contributed to a rich store of self-made music which began in the early nineteenth century and continues to this day.<\/p>\n
As Project Director for the comprehensive www.adirondackmusic.org<\/a> website, and Music Director\/Producer\/Concert Host and performer for the Emmy-winning \u201cSongs to Keep: Treasures of an Adirondack Folk Collector\u201d project, Dave\u2019s spent literally thousands of hours researching Adirondack musical traditions, studying old field recordings, and visiting with living links to this legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tuesday, April 14, 2020 at 12 PM \u2013 12:40 PM We can’t bring Dave to the Pember during this time of isolation so Dave is doing\u00a0 the next-best thing, performing online through Facebook Live for our enjoyment. Join performer and …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqQSS-m4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepember.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepember.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepember.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepember.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepember.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepember.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"https:\/\/thepember.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepember.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepember.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepember.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}