Don Messer

Photographs documenting Messer's career

[ca.1940]-1973

373 photographs

Series forms part of the Don Messer fonds and consists of black and white photographs, mostly relating to Don Messer and His Islanders and the television program Don Messer's Jubilee. Some are reproductions of early photographs of Don Messer and his musical groups. Also included are the musical groups Backwoods Breakdown and the New Brunswick Lumberjacks; individuals from his shows and tours such as Marg Osburne, Charlie Chamberlain, Cecil MacEachern, Waldo Munro, "Duke" Neilson, Warren MacRae, Gary MacNevin, Rae Simmons, the Buchta Dancers, and Don Tremaine; as well as guest artists such as Hank Snow, Catherine MacKinnon, and the Rhythm Pals.

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Related groups of records within the same fonds:
Photographs are also found in Messer's scrapbooks in the Correspondence and other material series.