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The Halifax Three (or the Halifax III), originally the Colonials, was a folk music band in Canada in the 1960s. The band performed in Toronto and Montreal before becoming part of the New York folk scene and recording an album.
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- Epic Records
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The Halifax Three cut two albums for Epic Records during 1963, and the line-up consisted of Dennis “Denny” Doherty [born November 29th 1941], Patrick LaCroix and Richard Byrne. They met, and first sang together, at a 1960 New Year’s Party in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A couple of months later they began performing as The Colonials.
The Halifax Three made a couple of professional but rather bland folk albums in 1963, very much in the mold of commercial vocal harmony-oriented groups of the folk revival, such as the Kingston Trio.…. Read Full Biography.
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The Halifax Three formed at a New Year's Eve party in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1960, when Doherty sang for the first time with Byrne and Patrick LaCroix. At first called the Colonials, they made a rare single for Rodeo Records in 1961 ("All My Trials"/"They Call the Wind Maria") and did a lot of local television, moving on to bigger success on ...
