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Thoughts on the Huron Carol from Stz’uminus Elder Daniel R. Elliott
This year’s Winter Harp show opens with a winter salutation written by Stz’uminus elder and artist Daniel R. Elliott of Nanaimo. A longtime friend of Winter Harp Artistic Director Lori Pappajohn, the two recently got into a conversation about the Huron Carol and its relevance today as Winter Harp is performing a modified version of it. In the 1600s, a Jesuit missionary in eastern Canada took a secular tune and put Christmas lyrics to it in the Wendat language to make the son
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Nov 29, 20252 min read
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