Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary’s to be inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame

The famous Newfoundland and Labrador song "Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary’s" written by Otto Kelland will be inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame at the 37th East Coast Music Awards Gala on May 8.

Songwriter, author and model shipbuilder Otto Kelland, born in 1904 in the small coastal community of Lamaline, Newfoundland and Labrador, was a member of the Order of Newfoundland and the Order of Canada. He was a police officer and became supervisor of a penitentiary. He died in 2004. 

Performing the ballad as part of the induction ceremony will be Newfoundland and Labrador Irish folk group, The Irish Descendants, who are celebrating 35 years this year.