From Grenville Hall's book of waltzes. Harvey Edgar "Smiley" Bates (1937-1997) came from Kirkland Lake. Smiley was a country singer and instrumentalist who played guitar, banjo and fiddle (among other things) I once saw him play a fiddle made out of a ba...
From the Grenville Hall collection. Smiley Bates (1937-1997) was an old-school country singer and multi-instrumentalist who played all over Ontario for decades. I saw him a few times in the 1970s. He was originally from Kirkland Lake. He was a good flat p...
From the Grenville Hall books. No information on this. A bit of an anomaly, given that all the other tunes are of British Isles or Canadian origin. Below there's a link to a video of the "By Request" Band performing on the Main Stage at the 2013 Dauphin (...
From the Grenville Hall binder of waltzes. Don Pettigrew (1939-1999) was born in Caistor Centre in the Niagara Peninsula. As an OPP officer he moved around Ontario a bit. He spent much of time in Eastern Ontario but ended up in Thunder Bay. I don't know ...
