This collection provides data on singers, musicians, and other artists in the Upper Saint John Valley during the 1991 – 1993 research. It will be of interest to researchers of French language songs, spoken French language usage, local history and local oral history. The Saint John Valley Folk Arts Survey has identified over 200 traditional artists in the Saint John Valley. It has developed a database of traditional music and dance ensembles and also developed a database of persons and groups involved in dissemination, promotion, and sales of traditional arts (located in administrative files). The research done throughout the Saint John Valley Folk Arts Survey documented field visits with traditional artists, produced slides, photos, field notes, informant statistics, hours of recorded performances and interviews, and pages of transcriptions and tape logs. Materials were collected in the field by Lisa Ornstein who was Director of the Acadian Archives / Archives acadiennes at the University of Maine at Fort Kent. Lisa had minimal assistance from Nick Hawes, Archives’ assistant, and from Don Cyr of Lille, Maine, who served as a research consultant.
