The Flummies are a Canadian Aboriginal music group from

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. Their name comes from a traditional

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trappers’

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(Flummies (flum`-meez`) n. - traditional Labrador trappers’ bread using a mixture of flour, salt and baking powder.) The group was founded in 1978 from members of the ''Best White Band''. They have released several albums of traditional music. The Flummies are a five piece aboriginal music group known for recording and preserving the historical, cultural and traditional songs of Labrador. The indigenous influences of the

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and

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have been intertwined over the last 250 years, to produce songs which tell stories of the people who have survived hard times and have seen all the beauty the Labrador landscape has to offer. Since the 1989 release of their second album, ''Songs of Labrador'', The Flummies have sold thousands of albums and have performed around the province of Newfoundland and Labrador at many festivals and conferences. Included in their touring was a five show performance in Germany in 1989 and twenty-eight shows at the base of the CN Tower in June 1999.

Members

* Alton Best on

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

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and

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...

*deceased, May 11, 2011 * Richard Dyson on

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

and

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

* Tunker Campbell on acoustic and

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lead guitars Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featured ...

and vocals * Leander Baikie on acoustic guitar and vocals * Simeon Asivak on bass

Discography

* Four Songs from Labrador (1986) * Songs of Labrador (1989) * Labradorimiut (2000) * Way Back Then (2001) * 25th Anniversary Album (2003) * Songs for Christmas (2003) * This is the Life For Me (2008) * The River (2010)

Awards and nominations

* 2000 nomination: Aboriginal Artist/Group of the Year (Music Industry Association of Newfoundland and Labrador) * 2001 nomination: Aboriginal Artist/Group of the Year (

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) * 2002 winner: Aboriginal Artist/Group of the Year (Music Industry Association of Newfoundland and Labrador) * 2003 nomination: Aboriginal Artist/Group of the Year (East Coast Music Awards) * 2009 winner: Aboriginal Recording of the Year (East Coast Music Awards) * 2012 nomination: World Recording of the Year (East Coast Music Awards)

References

External links

official website
Listing on Heritage of Newfoundland and Labrador website
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