GREENWOOD HIGHLAND GATHERING / CANADIAN PACIFIC. 1929. 343/4x24 inches. Condition B+: repaired tears and creases in margins, some affecting image; restored losses in bottom corners. Framed. The Highland Gathering was one of "a series of music and folk arts festivals held 1927-31 under the auspices of the Canadian Pacific Railway and organized by the railway's publicity agent, John Murray Gibbon, to explore the variety of Canada's cultural resources. The festivals were of particular significance in the evolution of music in Canada, representing as they did an early and happy instance of support for the arts by a major corporation, an early attempt to promote serious composition by Canadians, taking into account, moreover, the folk material of the country as a source for such composition, and one of the early concerted attempts to acquaint Canada's many different musical communities and audiences with each other" (The Canadian Encyclopedia).
