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maine experience > web extras > a fiddling producer's take on mellie dunham
A Fiddling MPBN Producer's Take on Mellie Dunham
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Frank Ferrel, the producer of MPBN's Maine Experience segment on Mellie Dunham, has a personal interest in telling Mellie's story. To this day, Frank plays some of Mellie's songs when he plays at Grange Hall dances around Maine and Atlantic Canada. In this piece, which does not appear in the segment that was televised on MPBN, Frank plays passages from two of the songs Mellie himself would have played during his sets on the Vaudeville circuit, "Haywood Schottische" and "The Opera Reel." These songs provide a brief sample of the songs that were popular back in the 1920's.
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Funding for production of Maine Experience was provided in part by: Elsie Viles, Cynthia Crocker, the Richard Bresnahan Family, Harry and Susan Konkel, the Borman Family Foundation, Henrietta Farnum Stewart, Randy Phelps and Pamela Daley, the Roy A. Hunt Foundation, Judith and Joe Kaminski and Calista L. Harder.
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