Maria Dunn - We Were Good People (Live) - Copyright Maria Dunn & William Dolinsky, 2003

Recorded Live in Edmonton, Nov 2008. Maria Dunn (vocal, guitar), Shannon Johnson (vocal, violin), Dawn Cross (vocal); Video by Don Bouzek (Ground Zero Productions); Live recording and mixing by Colin Lay (Big Weather Productions)
The studio recording of the song appears on Marias 2004 CD: We Were Good People
http://www.mariadunn.com for more info and complete lyrics.
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The Edmonton Hunger March took place on Tuesday, December 20, 1932. Protesters planned to walk in an orderly and peaceful manner from Market Square (currently the Stanley Milner Public Library) to the Legislature to ask for government assistance for farmers and the unemployed in the midst of the Depression. Wielding billy clubs, police on horseback broke up the march. In researching this event, I read an unpublished letter to the Edmonton Journal, written by William Dolinsky in 1999, in which he described the events he had witnessed. He wrote: "I remember well this Bloody Tuesday" and asserted, so eloquently and simply: "We were good people". Of the 10,000 people reportedly in the square that day, I imagined the debacle from the point of view of a mother with two children.

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[Paul49myspace]

A great performance in the" Christmas Carol" Maria. With the likes of Al Brant, Bill Bourne, Kevin Cook, Dale Ladouceur You Sounded Awesome.

[distantwhisp]

@Paul49myspace - Thanks for coming to the Christmas Carol show and for your positive comments!

[auerworld41]

What a great song! Maria Dunn is a REAL talent who writes and sings about real people and real issues. We are thrilled to be hosting her at a house cocnert in the Toronto area on May 14, 2011

[cookbill2000]

A very lovely Video Maria!! Love it.  This is one of my most favorite songs of yours.