This #WaterWednesday, we have a special musical treat for you. Last week, Frantically Atlantic, Don Rigley and Michelle Daigle, a local musical duo based in Fredericton, dropped into Conserver House to show us two new songs they’d written during their first musical tour of New Brunswick. These songs capture the feeling of love and longing we New Brunswickers feel when separated for too long from the waterways and rural beauty that makes our province special.
The first song we bring to you — “If the Tide’s Right” — will take you back to those long winter months when New Brunswickers are surrounded by snow and ice, but all we long for are those happy summer days by the sea. You know what they say – distance only makes the heart grow fonder.
The second song we bring you is a sombre instrumental cover of the French Acadian love Song – “À la claire Fontaine” (“By the clear fountain”). While the original song tells the story of a brokenhearted maiden that can’t forget her lost love, this version channels those same feelings toward the wildlife of New Brunswick that we sometimes take for granted.
For more traditional style music recorded right here in New Brunswick, be sure to visit Frantically Atlantic at http://www.franticallyatlantic.com/
If the Tide’s Right
*An original song about being close to salt water, but not close enough to see it.
Fontaine
*A sombre instrumental cover of the French Acadian love Song – “À la claire Fontaine”
(“By the clear fountain”)