Author: SELLICK, LESTER B.
Title: Canada's Don Messer
Description: Kentville, Nova Scotia, Kentville Publishing Co. Ltd.. 1969, 1st edition. (Mass market paperback) Very good plus. vi, 170pp. Small 8vo. Illustrated wrappers, designed by Owen McCarron. SIGNED by Don Messer and His Islanders on the title page (Don Messer, Ray Simmons, Warren MacRae, and Johnny Forrest). Illus. cartoons, B&W photos. Wrappers rubbed, internally tight and clean. "Don Messer was an icon of Canadian folk music. He had many popular radio programs from the 1930s through the 1950s, and his CBC Television series Don Messer’s Jubilee (1959–69) — distinguished by Messer’s down-east fiddle style and the toe-tapping “old-time” music of Don Messer and His Islanders — was one of the most popular and enduring Canadian television programs of the 1960s. Messer was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) Hall of Honor and the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame". -The Canadian Encyclopedia.

Keywords: Canadian Music, Canadian Folk Music, Folk Music, Music, Radio, Signed


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