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Live performance in 1981 by Gary O'Driscoll at the Fifth Annual Newfoundland Folk Festival in St John's of an original ballad about a man who leaves his cliffs by the sea for a life in Vancouver, written by Gary O'Driscoll, 1993 Gabriel Award winning producer, folksinger, songwriter and musician of Bay Bulls and St John's, NL, and Peterborough, ON.
Live performance in 1981 by Gary O'Driscoll at the Fifth Annual Newfoundland Folk Festival in St John's of an original ballad about a man who leaves his cliffs by the sea for a life in Vancouver, written by Gary O'Driscoll, 1993 Gabriel Award winning producer, folksinger, songwriter and musician of Bay Bulls and St John's, NL, and Peterborough, ON.
![Now Im Sixty-Four (Connemara)
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GEST Songs of Newfoundland and Labrador: http://www.gestsongs.com/31/sixtyfour.htm
This song is a variant of an original Newfoundland parlour song recorded by Connemara [1992-1997] on their 1995 Near & Distant Shores CD, trk#7, from Connemara Enterprises Ltd., produced by Jason Whelan of Connemara, recorded at The Sound Solution, recording number 02-50355 Connemara. Connemara is Tommy Nemec: guitar, bodhran and vocals; Glenn Hiscock: fiddle, mandolin, bouzouki, tenor banjo, 5-string banjo and vocals; Paul Hiscock: guitar, ukaline and vocals; Gordon Carey: bass and vocals. Musical contributions from Jason Whelan: guitar, bouzouki and whistle; Frank Maher: harmonica and button accordion; George Morgan: zambek. Now Im Sixty-Four (Connemara)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uMli_9Qi-BM/mqdefault.jpg)
