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Meet Eddie Coffey, one of Newfoundland's most popular singer/songwriters, who has paved the way for many artists through the years with his outstanding form of music, both singing and playing his button accordion.

Eddie was bornand raised in Placentia Bay, Community of Cuslett, Newfoundland, where music was a way of life. His mother was a fine accordion player as well as his grandmother, and Eddie was taught to play the accordion by his motherwhen he was 10 years old.

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He left home at age 18to find work and went to Labradorto work in the Wabush mines. He worked there for 2 yearsand while there he played music at parties and wrotethe popular song, BLACK AROUND THE EYES.

He then went to Halifax, Nova Scotia to fish on the draggers for six years.

On the draggers he would take his guitar and accordion, performing his music over the dragger radios in his spare time to the workers and other Russian draggers in the area, who insisted that Eddie keep entert