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Our Home on Native Land

from Long Train A​-​Rollin' by Marc Nerenberg

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In late Spring/early Summer this year, more than 1500 unmarked hidden graves have been discovered on the grounds of seven of Canada's 140 government and church run residential "schools", to which Indigenous children were forcibly taken to be stripped of their language, culture and heritage, and where they were subjected to unspeakable abuse. Searches for those graves have taken place on only 5% of these houses of horror so far. At that rate of discovery, searches of all the "school grounds are likely to uncover more than 30,000 unmarked, undocumented, hidden children's graves. This is not what I thought I was sitting down to write about in this song - it emerged unbidden during the writing process (which process benefitted greatly from editorial suggestions by my wife, Rosemary, as I worked on revising it). This was recorded on 1 July 2021, and was played, mostly fingerpicked (2 finger picking) with passing bits of clawhammer here and there, on a banjo tuned in an open Cm tuning - e♭CGCE♭. I used a B♭ harmonica, in “3rd position”, to play in Cm.

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from Long Train A​-​Rollin', released August 2, 2021

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Marc Nerenberg Montreal, Québec

Marc Nerenberg is a veteran Montreal folksinger who plays old time banjo styles and blues harmonica. He has a narrative- centric repertoire, recounting stories in song and wrapping stories around songs. You may “be drawn in by a combination of Marc’s mastery of traditional banjo styles, his idiosyncratic singing, and [his] richly detailed ballads.” (Mike Regenstreif – Folk Roots/Folk Branches 2019) ... more

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