Celebrating the Black Fly of Summer
Jun. 23rd, 2009 02:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mythtellerI have a new post on my story podcast Shortening the Road. It's one of my favorite Canadian songs by the late, great Wade Hemsworth and sung my one of my good friends, Jack.
Haven't heard of Hemsworth? If you're a good Canadian, you surely have heard at least one of his songs. A few of them were animated by the NFB and would play on CBC at random times during the day. Most people I meet know at least of the Log Drivers Waltz, and when I mention it, they burst instantly into song.
Governor General Adrienne Clarkson paid tribute to Hemsworth upon his death in 2002, saying that his songs were "so much a part of our folklore and so familiar to us that we didn't realize anyone had written them."
Haven't heard of Hemsworth? If you're a good Canadian, you surely have heard at least one of his songs. A few of them were animated by the NFB and would play on CBC at random times during the day. Most people I meet know at least of the Log Drivers Waltz, and when I mention it, they burst instantly into song.
Governor General Adrienne Clarkson paid tribute to Hemsworth upon his death in 2002, saying that his songs were "so much a part of our folklore and so familiar to us that we didn't realize anyone had written them."
