MARIA DUNN – FOLK MUSIC CRUSADER-CHRONICLER OF WOMEN’S HISTORY (MF GALAXY 037)
Artist explains creation of brilliant album PIECE BY PIECE about immigrant worker women’s struggles and victories at historic GWG plant Lyricist, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Maria Dunn is the Edmontonian folk music creator of the acclaimed albums From Where I Stand, For a Song, We Were Good People, The Peddler, and the brilliant Piece by Piece . Those records have won her nominations for the Prairie Music Awards, Canadian Folk Music Award, and the Juno Award, Canada’s equivalent to the Grammys. Dunn has become famous for her creation of “social art” and historically-themed music. We Were Good People examines the lives of Canadian working folk, including the history of the African-Americans who settled in Alberta and the other prairie provinces more than a hundred years ago to create the first African- Canadian towns in the West. But of all her socially-engaged work, the most praised has been Piece by Piece. Lyrically, it’s the life stories and labou...