In my endless search for rare, old, and generaly inaccessible recordings and source recordings, I dredged up this link from the UC Santa Barbara cylinder digitization site:
I'll post it in the links section, also. For anyone interested there is a lot of fiddle and accordion music, as well as some Breton, Irish and Scottish music here, instrumental and vocal. There also have a number of Quebecois tunes which sound oddly familiar...
I went over the Virtual Gramaphone a couple years back, they seemed to have a Quebequois orientation - a lot of links for English language song didn't seem to work - also nothing from Cape Breton or other Maritime music, or Scottish piping. Perhaps they've rectified this by now.
The French-Canadian stuff is often familiar tunes from Irish/Scottish music but with an extra bar thrown in. I keep track of instances of this - I've found three recordings of the Five mile chase, for instance.
They do have some Scottish pipeband and Maritimes (including Don Messer) tunes on the site. Also, I think Jean Carignan's fiddling is disguised here on some of George Wade's Cornhuskers tunes recorded when he was a member of that group. I've enjoyed this site very much over the years. There's more to be discovered there...
More on rare recordings.
More on rare recordings.
In my endless search for rare, old, and generaly inaccessible recordings and source recordings, I dredged up this link from the UC Santa Barbara cylinder digitization site:
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/gramophone/index-e.html
I'll post it in the links section, also. For anyone interested there is a lot of fiddle and accordion music, as well as some Breton, Irish and Scottish music here, instrumental and vocal. There also have a number of Quebecois tunes which sound oddly familiar...
# Posted on June 22nd 2006 by gravelwalks
Re: More on rare recordings.
Interesting link - useful resource
# Posted on June 22nd 2006 by Ron P
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it's a great stuff! Thanks a lot!
# Posted on June 22nd 2006 by Janek
Re: More on rare recordings.
I went over the Virtual Gramaphone a couple years back, they seemed to have a Quebequois orientation - a lot of links for English language song didn't seem to work - also nothing from Cape Breton or other Maritime music, or Scottish piping. Perhaps they've rectified this by now.
The French-Canadian stuff is often familiar tunes from Irish/Scottish music but with an extra bar thrown in. I keep track of instances of this - I've found three recordings of the Five mile chase, for instance.
# Posted on June 22nd 2006 by KLR
Re: More on rare recordings.
They do have some Scottish pipeband and Maritimes (including Don Messer) tunes on the site. Also, I think Jean Carignan's fiddling is disguised here on some of George Wade's Cornhuskers tunes recorded when he was a member of that group. I've enjoyed this site very much over the years. There's more to be discovered there...
# Posted on August 17th 2006 by vonnieestes