Heather Sparling

Happy new year! Come along for our first Wednesday Seminar of 2024 on January 17th, when Dr Heather Sparling @CBFraoch will join us to talk about her fascinating research into Canadian Atlantic Disaster songs. Zoom link & more info here: musicmedicinehistory.org

Oh my goodness, we are EXCITED! On Saturday, May 27th, come join us and learn all about how to incorporate "Puirt à beul - Tunes from the Mouth" into your classroom with Heather Sparling. For more information or to register, please visit the main page at orffnovascotia.com

Here's a statue of my dad trying to enter the wifi password without his glasses on.

A brilliant, lucid, and complex argument from my friend in the CBU English department in today's @capebretonpost. Stay tuned for online version! @cbufa

Good employers pay their employees fair wages. #SMUStrike #StandWithSMUFU

4. As with every strike, the richest people accuse the workers of being greedy. And at CBU, the bosses are the 1% of the 1%.

3. The CBU admin guy who said he is overpaid because "that's how she goes" also CBU faculty are among the highest paid in NS. It's a baffling statement.

2. In recent yas, CBU's admin has been on steroids. Faculty growth is anemic by comparison.

CBU's Board of Governors meeting today. Student reps/faculty excluded. Students also told they can't hold protest in hall outside... or **anywhere inside** CBU b/c of 'safety concerns'. [Funny didn't apply to other student gatherings, e.g., job fair last year, performances.]

Students who planned a SILENT and PEACEFUL protest outside the CBU Board of Governors meet today have been BANNED from corridors--effectively banning the protest. It is a disgrace. Our job is to educate the next generation of leaders, and admin's job is to cower from them.

@JazzHoover @cbufa Absolutely disgraceful approach to a peaceful student protest.

I’ve watched a lot of live hits today, but this might be the best demonstration of the Magdalen Islands winds so far 😂 Posted by Sven Meier, reposted with his permission.

The Society for Ethnomusicology has just published a website documenting US music-making and the lives of musicians during the pandemic. semmusicianscovid.com

Did you miss my talk, "Death Culture, Vernacular Memorialization, and Atlantic Canadian Disaster Songs," back in March? It's available on YouTube! youtu.be/dON5aiKgFTs

Wondering if anyone is at the pop up Covid testing site in Sydney, NS today? What’s the line like?

@Monika_Dutt We echo The Good Place and Brooklyn 99. We are also making our way thru all Star Treks. Definitely recommend. There are some very thought-provoking episodes.

For Black history month, Valerie MacDonald tells the story of her experience as an Afro-Nova Scotian growing up in Springhill, NS, and about her father, Maurice Ruddick, who miraculously survived the 1958 Springhill mining disaster. youtu.be/DcG4Q47SBCU

@adamcdyoung Pretty sure that you risk messy explosions with anything other than water.

Looking to disaster management research to figure out how to help the cultural industries to recover from Covid-19. theconversation.com/how-to-help-ar…

Dr. Andrew Lynk writes songs to cope with the stress of his job. It's not so different from the reasons that many people write songs in response to disasters. #disastersongs cbc.ca/news/canada/no…