Figgy Duff

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title: "Figgy Duff" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["musical-groups-established-in-1976", "musical-groups-disestablished-in-1995", "musical-groups-from-newfoundland-and-labrador", "canadian-folk-rock-groups", "celtic-fusion-groups", "1976-establishments-in-newfoundland-and-labrador", "1995-disestablishments-in-canada", "canadian-celtic-music-groups"] description: "Canadian folk-rock band" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figgy_Duff" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Canadian folk-rock band ::

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Field	Value
name	Figgy Duff
landscape
background	group_or_band
origin	Newfoundland, Canada
genre	Folk rock
years_active	–, 1999, 2008, 2016
label	Amber Music (1991–1995)
website	(defunct)
past_members	Noel Dinn (1948–1993)
Pamela Morgan
Frank Maher
Dave Panting
Geoff Butler
Philip Dinn (1949–2013)
Art Stoyles (1943–2015)
Derek Pelley
Kelly Russell
Sandy Morris
Anita Best
Jamie Snider
Bruce Crummell
Rob Laidlaw
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| name = Figgy Duff | image = | alt = | caption = | image_size = | landscape = | background = group_or_band | origin = Newfoundland, Canada | genre = Folk rock | years_active = –, 1999, 2008, 2016 | label = Amber Music (1991–1995) | associated_acts = | website = (defunct) | current_members = | past_members = Noel Dinn (1948–1993) Pamela Morgan Frank Maher Dave Panting Geoff Butler Philip Dinn (1949–2013) Art Stoyles (1943–2015) Derek Pelley Kelly Russell Sandy Morris Anita Best Jamie Snider Bruce Crummell Rob Laidlaw

Figgy Duff was a Canadian folk-rock band from Newfoundland, Canada. They played a major role in the Newfoundland cultural renaissance of the 1970s and 1980s. Formed in 1976 by Noel Dinn, who named the band after a traditional pudding, Figgy Duff travelled across Newfoundland, learning traditional songs and performing them with distinct elements of rock and roll.

The band relied heavily on the research of ethnomusicologist Kenneth Peacock's 1965 3-volume Songs of the Newfoundland Outports as a resource for songs that they adapted into a new rock-based sound called “trad-rock” — an amalgamation of rock music and traditional folk music of unknown authors.

They began working with Island Records early, though the album that resulted has yet to be released. Instead, they released their independent self-titled debut album: Figgy Duff in 1980. The album was also released by Ottawa-based Posterity Records. It was followed by After the Tempest in 1982.

Through the next thirteen years, Figgy Duff continued touring and released three more albums: Weather Out the Storm (1989), Downstream (1993) and the compilation Retrospective (1995).

The band's line-up changed several times, but the core of Noel Dinn and Pamela Morgan, singer-songwriter, stayed the same. Weather Out the Storm was nominated for a 1991 Juno Award. Dinn died of cancer in 1993, and Morgan disbanded Figgy Duff soon after.

The band has since reunited three times, once in 1999 for a silver anniversary tour, again in summer 2008 to celebrate the release of a CD of live recordings from the bands' previous reunion, and for the 2016 Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival, featuring Aaron Collis on accordion.

Discography

• 1980: Figgy Duff
• 1982: After the Tempest
• 1989: Weather Out the Storm
• 1993: Downstream
• 1995: Retrospective
• 2008: Figgy Duff Live Silver Reunion

References

References

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5. Saugeres, Lise. (August 1991). "Figgy Duff and Newfoundland Culture". Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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10. "Downstream Figgy Duff". Qobuz.
11. "Figgy Duff – A Retrospective 1974-1993". Discogs.
12. "CD Review - Figgy Duff "A Retrospective 1974 - 1993", 1997". Irish Music Magazine.
13. "Pamela Morgan and Noel Dinn, 2001". Heritage Newfoundland & Labrador.
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15. "Figgy Duff Reuniting for Writers...Western Star May 2008". Press Reader.
16. "Living Tradition, July 2008". The Scope.
17. "N.L. Folk Festival announces lineup...May 2016". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
18. "Figgy Duff | Album Discography".

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