The Folk
The Folk
Mike Tod
TF002 Northwest Territories: The Changing Roads
45 minutes Posted Oct 24, 2019 at 6:03 am.
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Is folk music still folk music if you play it on an electric instrument? Well, is a road still a road if it goes from dirt to pavement? In the late 1950s, a Métis-Cree musician named Elsie Justis moved to a very remote area in the Northwest Territories, that did not have any roads, and brought an electric guitar with her. This episode introduces Justis and her music, and how music travels and comes to be in remote places.