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Greenleaf and Mansfield (Summer 2023)
by Michelle Rex Bailey and Ruth Lawrence
GREENLEAF & MANSFIELD
Written by Michelle Rex Bailey and Ruth Lawrence
Directed by Pamela Morgan
SYNOPSIS
The play follows the journey of song collectors Elizabeth Greenleaf and Grace Mansfield as they gather folk songs in the 1920-30’s in rural NL for their 1933 collection “Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland.” Having first landed here as part of the Grenfell Mission, Greenleaf was enchanted with the traditional songs she heard in communities along the coast of our island. She returned to her studies in the US that winter but returned with Mansfield as a music transcriber, the following summer, eager to preserve these seemingly singular stories told through song that she found in each place. We are preparing the show for the 90th anniversary of the publication of their collection in 2023.
Pamela Morgan has been a leading performer in the Celtic music scene for over forty years. For 19 years, Pamela was lead singer for and one of the original members of folk/rock innovators Figgy Duff, famous for their strikingly original and beautiful arrangements of traditional Newfoundland/Celtic material and their equally impressive and powerful original material.
DATES
To be announced
Written by Michelle Rex Bailey and Ruth Lawrence
Directed by Pamela Morgan
SYNOPSIS
The play follows the journey of song collectors Elizabeth Greenleaf and Grace Mansfield as they gather folk songs in the 1920-30’s in rural NL for their 1933 collection “Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland.” Having first landed here as part of the Grenfell Mission, Greenleaf was enchanted with the traditional songs she heard in communities along the coast of our island. She returned to her studies in the US that winter but returned with Mansfield as a music transcriber, the following summer, eager to preserve these seemingly singular stories told through song that she found in each place. We are preparing the show for the 90th anniversary of the publication of their collection in 2023.
Pamela Morgan has been a leading performer in the Celtic music scene for over forty years. For 19 years, Pamela was lead singer for and one of the original members of folk/rock innovators Figgy Duff, famous for their strikingly original and beautiful arrangements of traditional Newfoundland/Celtic material and their equally impressive and powerful original material.
DATES
To be announced
