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Lake Rhymes Folk Songs of the Great Lakes Region

Regular price $40.00 Sale

A songbook and study guide with historical photos and an 18-song companion CD by Lee and Joann Murdock
Published 2004, This book went out of print in just a few years. In 2019, we resurrected Lake Rhymes in a new deluxe Hardcover Edition. A few updates were made, but essentially the book’s content and the CD remain exactly the same.

Lake Rhymes is

  • an 18-song CD with 71 minutes of Lee Murdock performance
  • packaged with 146-page book containing
  • musical scores for all 18 songs
  • over 70 historic photos, maps and illustrations
  • the stories behind each song, vocabulary, background
  • worksheets and exercises for teachers and music enthusiasts
  • ideas for teachers to use the songs and books in teaching history, English, music and geography
  • ready to be enjoyed by anyone with an avid interest in maritime history or traditional folk music