''Home in Halifax'' is a 1993

live album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...

by Stan Rogers. It was recorded by the CBC during a concert Rogers performed at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium in Halifax,

Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Most of the population are native Eng ...

in March 1982, 11 years prior. The concert was put together as a live radio and T.V. broadcast celebrating Rogers' annual appearance at the Cohn. The stage was decorated with a ship's mast, wheels, lobster traps and fishing nets. A release the previous year, titled "In Concert" and released on CBC's "Variety Recordings" label, featured a different track listing of material from the same concert.

Track listing

#Bluenose #Make & Break Harbour #Field Behind The Plow #Shriner Cows (dialogue) #Night Guard #Morris Dancers (dialogue) #

The Idiot ''The Idiot'' ( pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform rus, Идиот, Idiót) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal ''The Russian Messenger'' in 1868–69. The title is an ...

#Lies #Free In The Harbour #Band Introductions (dialogue) #Workin' Joe #The Legend Of Fingal (dialogue) #

Giant In folklore, giants (from Ancient Greek: '' gigas'', cognate giga-) are beings of human-like appearance, but are at times prodigious in size and strength or bear an otherwise notable appearance. The word ''giant'' is first attested in 1297 fr ...

#45 Years #Mary Ellen Carter Intro (dialogue) #

The Mary Ellen Carter "The Mary Ellen Carter" is a song written and first recorded by Stan Rogers in 1979. It tells the story of a heroic effort to salvage a sunken ship, the eponymous ''Mary Ellen Carter'', by members of her crew. Original version The song chronicl ...

Barrett's Privateers "Barrett's Privateers" is a modern folk song in the style of a sea shanty, written and performed by Canadian musician Stan Rogers, having been inspired after a song session with the Friends of Fiddler's Green at the Northern Lights Festival ...

#Sailor's Rest Intro (dialogue) #Sailor's Rest

''In Concert'' Release (1991)

#The Witch Of The Westmorland 4:41 #The Field Behind The Plough 4:23 #Night Guard 3:08 #Forty-Five Years 3:34 #The Idiot 2:49 #Lies 5:37 #Working Joe 3:40 #Free In The Harbour 3:55 #Dark-Eyed Molly 3:55 #Sailors' Rest 5:35 #The Mary Ellen Carter 5:14

Musicians

#Stan Rogers (6-string, 12-string guitars) #

Garnet Rogers Garnet Rogers (born May 1955) is a Canadian folk musician, singer, songwriter and composer. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario with roots in Nova Scotia. He began his professional career working with his older brother, folk musician Stan Rogers, an ...

(Fiddle, Electric guitar) #Jim Morison (Bass) #Paul Mills (6-string guitar)

References

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