Lumberjacks & Irishmen

Brian Miller

Brian Miller has a great passion for the Irish music and traditional songs of Great Lakes workers. He knows the legends, people, & places, to a science, steeped in art. Raised in Northern Minnesota, enriched & deepened in Ireland and other lands, Brian plies his trade from St Paul, MN. Check out his TheLostForty.com collection recordings from 1924.

Unless otherwise noted, all the traditional songs in this program are performed by Brian Miller:
Jim Whalen - from Minnesota Lumberjack Songs
The Banks of the Little Eau Pleine - from Minnesota Lumberjack Songs
The Falling of the Pine - from Falling of the Pine
The Farmer's Boy - from Falling of the Pine
 

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SOS-000322

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Lumberjacks & Irishmen

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Brian has a deep, almost genetic, connection to the Irish and lumberjack music and stories, and is powerfully drawn to the history of the whole movement.
The old lumberjack songs sometimes had dozens of verses - and here's why....

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I've had Brian Miller and his lovely wife Norah Rendell at our house concerts, three times going on four!

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