The Flummies are a five piece aboriginal music group which are home-based in the Cental Labrador community of Happy Valley-Goose Bay. The Flummies are prominently known for recording and perserving the historical, culture and traditional songs of Labrador. The Flummies have been performing for 22 years and consist of aboriginal musicians of Inuit and Metis decent. Original group members Alton Best (vocals, aoustic guitar and harmonica) and Richard Dyson (accordion and percussion) have been joined by Tunker Campbell (acoustic and electric lead guitars, vocals and mosquitoes), Leander Baikie (acoustic guitar and vocals) and Sim Asivak (bass).
The Flummies please audiences everywhere they perform with their hometown style and blend of good heartwarming, toe-tapping music. A good example of this outstanding music is heard on their new album entitled, The Flummies, 25th Anniversary Album. Not only do they give us the CD, but a DVD as well in the package, which shows the history of The Flummies over the past 25 years.
The outstanding album contains hits from their many albums over the past 25 years and includes; Crooked Stovepipe-Little Cottage Home-Trappers Life-Today We've Just Begun-A Crowd of Jolly Trappers-Shores of Labrador-You Still Got Me and 11 more.
The Flummies have sold thousands of albums and have performed around the province of Newfoundland and Labrador at many festivals and conferences. Included in their touring was a five show performance in Germany in 1989 and 28 shows at the base of the CN Tower in June of 1999.
The indigenous influences of the Innu, Inuit and Metis people have been interwined over the last 250 years, to produce songs which tell stories of the people who have survived hard times and have seen all the beauty the Labrador landscape has to offer. This is the music that The Flummies play and sing about.
The Flummies won several nominations for their work over the years and won Aboriginal Group of the Year MIANL 2002, ECMA Aboriginal Group of the Year 2003 and the Tourist Industry Association of Newfoundland and Labrador's Hospitality Ambassadors 2003.
Other albums by The Flummies are: Songs of Labrador (Cassette only)-Labradorimiut and Way Back Then. For further information regarding The Flummies, refer to their website, address posted above.
Note Pictured Above:
Alton Best-Top Left
Richard Dyson-Top Right
Leander Baikie-Next Left
Eugene Campbell-Next Right
Simeon Asivak-Next Left