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Fiddler's Green is the title of a 1950 novel by Ernest K. Gann, about a fugitive criminal who works as a seaman after stowing away. [7] The author Richard McKenna wrote a story, first published in 1967, titled "Fiddler's Green,” in which he considers the power of the mind to create a reality of its own choosing, especially when a number of ...
Friends of Fiddler's Green is a Canadian folk music group based in Toronto founded in 1971 and still active as of 2024. The members of the group at the time of its first recording, 1981's This Side of the Ocean, were Alistair Brown, Tam Kearney, Grit Laskin, David Parry, Ian Robb, Laurence Stevenson, and Jim Strickland.
"Fiddler's Green" by The Tragically Hip "Threnody" by Two Gallants; Michael Jackson's "Little Susie" from the 1995 album HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I "Threnody for a Duck" from Peter and the Wolf (1975 rock album) by Jack Lancaster and Robin Lumley [14] "Threnody" by Goldmund "In Trenodia" by Ville Valo
A written test is often also administered, with questions that cover United States Cavalry and unit history. During the Spur Ride, candidates are also often required to recite from memory the traditional cavalry poem, "Fiddler's Green", or other traditions or historical information pertaining to the Cavalry.
In a bid to help his son and keep the grandkids nearby, he bought Gann a cottage a mile down the road in Pebble Beach. This cottage is where Gann's writing really took off, finishing the High and the Mighty, Fiddler's Green, Soldier of Fortune and working the associated movie deals. As Gann's fortunes grew, Eleanor's health began to fade.
"But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge."
Gordon Stobbe (/ ˈ s t oʊ b i / STOH-bee; [1] born 1945–46) C.M is a Canadian fiddler, multi-instrumentalist, and composer based in Seaforth, Nova Scotia.Stobbe was born in Saskatchewan, but has made his home on the East Coast of Canada since 1977.
The German band Fiddler's Green recorded it in 1995 for the Album "King Shepherd". LeperKhanz recorded a version of the song on the album 2005 Tiocfaidh Ár Lá . David Kincaid , on his album The Irish American's Song , the second volume of his Irish-American Civil War songs, does a version called "The President's Ball".