Songs for a New Country

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Songs for a New Country

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Songs for a New Country evokes an earlier age, by mixing traditional folk songs with images of New Zealand. Barry Saunders — best known as lead singer of the Warratahs — performs a collection of ballads across Aotearoa, while director John Laing mines the archives for images to bring these settlers tales alive. The result is a kind of folk poetry in motion, where imagery of the early days of European settlement evokes both nostalgia and hardship. The musicians include Warratahs Wayne Mason an...

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Video

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1993

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https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/songs-for-a-new-country-1993

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