Daily Spotlight: The Flummies

The Flummies are a six piece aboriginal music group which are home-based in the Central Labrador community of Happy Valley - Goose Bay. The Flummies are prominently known for recording and preserving the historical, cultural and traditional songs of Labrador. The indigenous influences of the Innu, Inuit and Metis people 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.

Their albums contain new and old classic songs of Labrador, depicting the life and the culture of the people. The music is a mixture of classic east coast country mixed with accordion jigs and reels.

Since their 1988 release of their first album, The Flummies have sold a few thousand cd’s 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 of 1999. In 2009 they traveled to Winnipeg to perform on Aboriginal Day live, sponsored through APTN. More recently, the band have been traveling in the Canadian Arctic performing at various festivals in Inuit communities of Nunavut and Nunavik. The Flummies have been immortalized in a documentary, broadcast on APTN and Bravo, titled LAB-Originals.

In 2002 The Flummies were winners of the Music Industry Association of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Aboriginal Artist/Group of the Year. In 2003 and 2009 they won an East Coast Music Award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year.

As they enter their fourth decade of music making, The Flummies continue to please audiences with their hometown style and blend of good heartwarming, toe-tapping, accordion, east coast flavoured dance-a-billy music.

For more information regarding The Flummies, visit http://www3.nf.sympatico.ca/baikie/theflummies/