Program

The crosscurrents of the Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current create some of the richest fishing grounds in the world. The Gulf of Saint Lawrence is the gateway to the interior of North America, and a richly diverse musical region of English, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Acadian and Québeçois French, Micmac, and Maliseet cultures.

This program captures Lynn's lifelong love affair with the region where her great-grandfather once captained fishing schooners from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland and Ireland, and where she worked as a canoe instructor and environmental educator from high school through graduate school.

This bilingual program includes traditional and original material from Lynn's 1987 album Crosscurrents, which received the Tree of Learning award for excellence in environmental education from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Submitted with Lynn's M.S. thesis on the Newfoundland fishery, the Crosscurrents cassette launched Crosscurrents Music, now celebrating its 30th year of sense of place in song and story.