Newfoundland's best blows the dust off traditional repertoire

What attracts a young person to ages old traditional folk songs?
Since his parents had their own folk duo you could argue that award-winning Newfoundland folksinger and guitarist Matthew Byrne grew up in the midst of it. But today, at 33, he argues no one is immune to the special lure of these songs.
“First and foremost I’m attracted to melody before I hear story lines and words,” he explained in a recent chat from St. John’s, “and I just think some of the complex m