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Biography
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Don Messer
Real name: Donald Charles Frederick Messer
Effective period / Period of releases: 1969 - 1973
Canadian fiddler, music director, music writer and entertainer.Born May 9, 1909 in Tweedside, New Brunswick, Canada.
Died March 26, 1973 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Messer was a defining icon of folk music during the 1960s.
His CBC Television series Don Messer’s Jubilee (1959–69) was one of the most popular and enduring Canadian television programs of the 1960s.