Where Do The Capelin Go?
As a crucial link in the food chain for all the larger fish, capelin are an important bio-indicator that we ignore at our peril. Human arrogance refuses to accept the fact that we are just one more animal in the zoo, no more or less important than the rest of them. Jim made this song to illustrate the point that people who live by and from the ocean are as much a part of the ocean environment as the creatures who live within it. Feller From Fortune/Auntie Mary: Our take on a pair of perennial Newfoundland favourites. They started out as instrumental dance tunes but acquired lyrics when gob musicians who provided music for dances got tired of diddling and composed on the spot lyrics to accompany the dances. And A Crowd of Bold Sharemen: Composed by John Campbell Mitchell of Little Bay Islands (where Gerry’s family comes from) Notre Dame Bay around 1915. Mitchell was one of the sharemen who signed on to the fishing voyage on the understanding that they would all share in the profits to b
