{"id":2761,"date":"2011-03-16T21:14:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T19:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=2761"},"modified":"2011-03-16T23:18:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T21:18:43","slug":"farewell-to-nova-scotia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=2761","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to Nova Scotia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The banjo player of my bluegrass band sung this song when we met last time &#8211; Farewell to Nova Scotia.\u00a0 She grew up in Canada and moved back to Germany, and used to sing this song when she felt homesick.<\/p>\n<p>This is a nice folk song, and there are many nice versions at youtube.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite version up to now is the following by<strong> Bonnie Dobson<\/strong> &#8211; with some nice mandolin playing in the background:<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"watch-headline-title\">Bonnie Dobson &#8211; Farewell to Nova Scotia<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bonnie Dobson - Farewell to Nova Scotia\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mdmhu6OvXGM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A very smooth version played with two harps:<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"watch-headline-title\">Farewell to Nova Scotia &#8211; Ardyth and Jennifer<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Farewell to Nova Scotia - Ardyth and Jennifer\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_3j-dui4U58?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>and a heavy version:<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"watch-headline-title\">The Real McKenzies &#8211; Farewell To Nova Scotia<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Real McKenzies - Farewell To Nova Scotia\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TiPxYPZ9MvQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Playlist with many more versions, for example by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sons of Maxwell- <strong>Sons of Maxwell<\/strong> is a Canadian music duo who perform both traditional Celtic folk music and original compositions with a pop-folk sound.<\/li>\n<li>Rising Gael &#8211; Rising Gael was named one of the &#8220;Best Celtic Folk Bands of 2010&#8221; by Marc Gunn on his popular Celtic Music Podcast!<\/li>\n<li>Ryan&#8217;s Fancy &#8211; <strong>Ryan\u2019s Fancy<\/strong> was a musical group active from the 1960s until the 1980s, all three of whose members were Irish immigrants to Canada.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/p\/2B7C322B801B0A7C?hl=de_DE&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<h2>Additional information<\/h2>\n<p>wikipedia about Farewell to Nova Scotia (with lyrics): <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Farewell_to_Nova_Scotia\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Farewell_to_Nova_Scotia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Homepage The Real McKenzies: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realmckenzies.com\/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.realmckenzies.com\/Welcome.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Homepage RisingGael: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.risinggael.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.risinggael.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Homepage Sons of Maxwell: <a href=\"http:\/\/sonsofmaxwell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/sonsofmaxwell.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia about Ryan&#8217;s Fancy: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ryan%27s_Fancy\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ryan%27s_Fancy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sheet music:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chivalry.com\/cantaria\/lyrics\/farewell-nova-scotia.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.chivalry.com\/cantaria\/lyrics\/farewell-nova-scotia.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.telus.net\/~jsissons\/music.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www3.telus.net\/~jsissons\/music.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtv-zone.com\/phyrst\/audio\/nfld\/03\/scotia.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.wtv-zone.com\/phyrst\/audio\/nfld\/03\/scotia.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The banjo player of my bluegrass band sung this song when we met last time &#8211; Farewell to Nova Scotia.\u00a0 She grew up in Canada and moved back to Germany, and used to sing this song when she felt homesick. This is a nice folk song, and there are many nice versions at youtube. My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,78,3,20],"class_list":["post-2761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mandolin-guitar","tag-canada","tag-harp","tag-mandolin","tag-song"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0be-Ix","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2761"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2768,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}