Fraser Union

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Fraser Union first formed in 1983. The current members have been together since 1987, performing and recording songs that have a great deal of meaning to them and their audiences. Dan Kenning, one of their members, says they tend more towards "songs of content than songs of contentment," but a quick look at the range of music on their recordings, THIS OLD WORLD, FROM THERE TO HERE, HELLO, STRANGER, and SPLIT/SHIFT indicates that Fraser Union are not quickly pigeon-holed. Many of their songs come from the workplace: "Bank Trollers" (about West Coast fishing), "Snap the Line Tight" (log salvaging), "Canning Salmon," "Coal Town Road," "Chemical Worker's Song," "Woman of Labrador," "Empty Nets" (woes of fishing), "Ships of the Deep" (merchant shipping), "Everything Possible" (child-rearing), "Their Way" (post-secondary teaching), and "The Ghost Program" (computer programming). But some tell stories from other times and places: "The Last Battle," about the Metis uprising and the last stand of Louis Riel, "The Goodnight-Loving Trail," about the most valuable member on the cattle drive--the cook, "Augustus and Catherine," about the Overlanders and moving West, and "Lady Franklin's Lament," about the ill-fated Franklin expedition. Fraser Union also sings contemporary songs with a bite ("Canaries in the Mine" is about environmental hazards in an aircraft factory; "One Big Highway" is about globalization)...

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