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Documentary on Bluenose to air Saturday

“Bluenose: The Legend Lives,” a one-hour television documentary showcasing the story of the Bluenose will air on CBC Television as part of the Absolutely Maritimes series Saturday at 8 p.m.

“Bluenose: The Legend Lives” is produced by Brookes Diamond Productions for KPI Productions in partnership with the Canadian Maritime Heritage Foundation. The show includes an original song specially written by Bruce Guthro and friends.

“We’ve wanted to do a production about the Bluenose forever,” says executive producer Brookes Diamond, “bringing aboard our most talented singer-songwriters to add to the incredible Bluenose story to capture the magic under sail in a whole new way.”

Early in July, writer/director Geoff D’Eon, along with his team, boarded the Bluenose II for three days of shooting off the coast of Lunenburg. The camera crew subsequently sailed from Cape Breton to Lunenburg, capturing her under sail in the open sea. D’Eon assembled musical director Jamie Robinson, producers Moya Walsh and Jac Gautreau, cinematographers Wade Cornell and Mark Hammond, audio recordist Donnie Chapman, audio mixer Brian Power and editor Warren Jefferies, Bruce Guthro, Joel Plaskett and his father Bill Plaskett, Old Man Luedecke, singer Fiona MacGillivray, fiddler Shannon Quinn along with the Eastern Belles to take part.

“Bluenose: The Legend Lives” was produced for CBC Television with the assistance of the Province of Nova Scotia and the Nova Scotia Film and Television Production Incentive Fund.