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With the impending release of their
debut album, the band formerly known as Napper Tandy has changed its
name to Tarahan to resurrect the spirit of a once distinct area
of St. John’s
and the people who inhabited it.
 Tarahan’s
Town, named after a local store owner, was the moniker given to an area of
downtown St. John’s Newfoundland in the mid 1800’s. It
is where the poorest of the poor lived and was literally burned to the
ground in two separate fires in 1855 and ‘56 much to the delight of media
and others in the city who scorned the tough attitude and lifestyles of
poverty-stricken locals. Some would say that it was where the real
people lived. The people of Tarahan's Town eventually spread
throughout the city and now form an essential part of the fabric of
the St. John’s
of today we know and love, a place characterized by artists, writers and storytellers.
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