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Day two of the fifth annual Newfoundland Folk Festival in 1981 continues into the evening at the St John's Curling Club. Featured is a performance of Charming Blue-Eyed Mary by Stephanie Squires with Phil Dinn on the bodhran. This song is an abbreviated variant of a 19th-century British broadside ballad, Blue-Eyed Mary, published by James Lindsay of Glasgow sometime between 1851 and 1910, and archived at the Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads, shelfmark: 2806 c.14(149).
Day two of the fifth annual Newfoundland Folk Festival in 1981 continues into the evening at the St John's Curling Club. Featured is a performance of Charming Blue-Eyed Mary by Stephanie Squires with Phil Dinn on the bodhran. This song is an abbreviated variant of a 19th-century British broadside ballad, Blue-Eyed Mary, published by James Lindsay of Glasgow sometime between 1851 and 1910, and archived at the Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads, shelfmark: 2806 c.14(149).
