Carrie Grover Project

Mar 01 2023

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Julie Mainstone Savas has created a living history of the music handed down for generations within one family, landing finally upon the ears of the youngest child, Carrie Spinney Grover. Through letters, field recordings, Library of Congress recordings, diaries, and Carrie's own recollections of her musical childhood, Savas takes us on a musical and historical journey through the eyes of Grover's immigrant ancestors in Nova Scotia from the late 1700s through to the early 1900s when Carrie musters her remaining strength to ensure every last family song and fiddle tune is preserved for future generations.

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Episode 6

Mar 01 2023 87 mins

This final podcast covers a lot of ground beginning in 1892 when Carrie and her family relocate from Nova Scotia to Newry, Maine. Over the next few decades she’s immersed in family life, and with the passing of her parents a dedication to recalling all the songs she’d ever heard her parents sing takes root. The 1940s peak for her as she’s recorded by prominent song collectors

Episode 5

Jun 29 2021 46 mins

The fifth podcast focuses entirely on Carrie’s memories of her childhood at Sunken Lake where Carrie was raised and spent the first twelve years of her life. Included are stories of song singing with her family at home, and with neighbors and friends when they gathered in one another’s homes for a meal followed by music and dancing. We hear tales of sibling pranks and the fun t

Episode 4

Nov 08 2020 44 mins

This podcast draws upon Carrie Grover’s earliest memories in rural Nova Scotia during the late 1880s. Through her detailed remembrances we come to know her immediate family and the details of their daily life. Present throughout her recounting is the music- their traditional folksongs, ballads and fiddle tunes. The following musicians recorded fresh song versions from Grover’s

Episode 2

Mar 24 2020 29 mins

The second podcast takes us to Windsor, Nova Scotia in the early 1800s where Grover’s great grandparents lived during the years of great expansion and growth in the Canadian province. Carrie sings Captain Kidd and Sheffield Apprentice; Steve Amsden provides his version of What News from Ireland, Brave Mouse? and Anson Grover, Carrie’s great grandson, tells the accompanying fami

Episode 3

Mar 24 2020 46 mins

Podcast #3 is chock full of stories depicting the lives of Carrie’s maternal and paternal grandparents and great grandparents, as branches of the family settle in at Sunken Lake during the first half of the 19th century. The podcast opens with Joan Baez singing Lily of the West, followed by folksinger Maria Gillard and fiddler Kit Fallon on Blind Beggar and Stormy Scenes of Winte

Episode 1

Jul 19 2019 35 mins

The first podcast is an introduction to the Carrie Grover Project, and an overview of the podcast series. On the podcast, Carrie herself sings Prentice Boy, one of the songs from her great grandmother, and she speaks with Alan Lomax during a conversation recorded in April 1941. Carrie’s granddaughter, Callie Mills, reads the words Carrie wrote in the introduction to her songbook,