There’s no place like home. Cape Breton based quintet, Pretty Archie display the love and admiration for the island they call home in the music video for Farewell to Nova Scotia.
It’s all here. Guitars, banjo, madonlin, foot-stomping, hand-clapping and the heart and soul of a maritimer.
Pretty Archie join a long list of iconic Canadian singer/songwriters to perform a rendition of the song which includes the likes of Gordon Lightfoot, Stompin’ Tom Connors, Ian and Sylvia Tyson and Stan Rogers to name a few.
Recorded at Soundpark Studios in Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Farewell to Nova Scotia is featured in the Apple Music playlist, “TikTok Sea Shanty” where’s it’s experiencing a healthy and consistent flow of streams each week.
Pretty Archie is a Canadiana band from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Longtime friends Brian Cathcart (Lead Vocals, Guitar), Matt McNeil (Mandolin, Guitar), Colin Gillis (Harmonica, Bass, Vocals), Redmond MacDougall (Banjo, Percussion, Vocals) and Scott MacLean (Guitar, Mandolin) make up the band. The band continues to push the genre of Country with a hint of Roots creating the uniquely “Pretty Archie Sound”
The song is from the band’s 2020 EP titled, Running for Cover and is available to stream on all major streaming platforms and on CD at the link below:
https://curve-music.myshopify.com/collections/pretty-archie
https://music.apple.com/ca/artist/pretty-archie/514465819
https://www.instagram.com/prettyarchieband/
https://www.facebook.com/PrettyArchieMusic/https://www.prettyarchie.com/
