A week from now we'll begin the recording process of “Exile & Adventure, Irish Song of the Pampa” in Buenos Aires (after a 24 bus journey from here in Chaco!). Last weekend another day of filming for “The Trackless Wild” was completed, on the farm of one, Fernando Sheridan. Fernando's grandfather lived in the same town and at the same time as 'A Wandering Tip' (the writer of many of these Irish-Argentine songs). I sang “The Jolly Shepherd Boy" for Fernando and he told me about how his family came to Argentina and worked in that profession of shepherding when they first came to the country. Amazingly, Fernando's grandfather was a child of the famine, who arrived in Argentina in the late 1860's just before the songs I'm singing were published.
I am a jolly shepherd boy and live upon the plain
Oh! once I was my parents’ joy e'er first I crossed the main
The crowdfunding effort to see this film to fruition has again crawled up a little more towards the goal, though still it is lacking a major injection to get this worthy work done.
GRMMA!
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