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Henry Burr, Canadian tenor

December 19, 2016raretunes

The highly prolific recording artist Henry Burr was inspired at an early stage of his career by Scots song. Hear him on rareTunes.

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RareTunes was started in 2006 by volunteers Stuart Eydmann and the late Derek Hoy who saw the need for such an archive and wished to demonstrate its potential. It remains an independent, not for profit project undertaken without external funding. This version was launched in Spring 2016.

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