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Ethnomusicologist Bau Graves has written about Maurice Gagnon (1927-1973): “Maurice Gagnon is remembered as a dynamic performer by those who him play. At the age of ten, he was already an ace harmonica player and could attract an audience and earn money playing in clubs. He played a repertoire of jigs and reels and also composed a number of tunes some of which he recorded as 45’s and one LP album. These recordings, released between 1964 and 1970, are a historical scarcity: only a relative handful of disks of traditional Maine Franco-American music have ever been available to the public.”
Publication Date
1970
City
Lewiston, Maine
Keywords
Franco-American Collection, music, music traditions
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | History | Music | Public History
Media Type
Photographic Reprint
Recommended Citation
Franco-American Music Traditions Collection, Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries.
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