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Keeping traditional music alive, eleanor Townsend of Brampton will be teaching a course in folk fiddling - first of its kind in Metro - at Seneca Coll(...)
Keeping traditional music alive, eleanor Townsend of Brampton will be teaching a course in folk fiddling - first of its kind in Metro - at Seneca Coll(...)

Keeping traditional music alive, eleanor Townsend of Brampton will be teaching a course in folk fiddling - first of its kind in Metro - at Seneca Coll(...)

Date6/16/1977
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Original Toronto Star caption: Keeping traditional music alive; eleanor Townsend of Brampton will be teaching a course in folk fiddling - first of its kind in Metro - at Seneca College this fall. She also plays piano; trumpet; accordion and harmonica. Regarded as top female folk fidler in Canada; she performs throughout province.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
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      Object NumberTSPA_0099179F
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      Brampton Solo Parents Association named its first Father of the Year Saturday - Neville Case, an engineering writer who's divorced and raising his five children. He tries out the trophy tankard given him, surrounded by the children-Joan, 13, Mike, 12, Yvonne, Eileen, 10, and Philip, 7-and Diamond the cat. So far as t Brampton club knows, it's the first Solo Parents award in Cana [Incomplete]
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