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Acadien Fiddle Music is hard to find

Acadien Fiddle Music is hard to find

Looking for the Music sheet for (La tune a Louie Arsenault) the band 1755 play's it on there CD, I not sure what the fiddle tune is really call?? fiddler1755

# Posted on January 17th 2010 by Fiddler1755

Re: Acadien Fiddle Music is hard to find

Not as hard as it is to listen to!



(...don't worry, I'm always like this...)

# Posted on January 18th 2010 by nicholas

Re: Acadien Fiddle Music is hard to find

Surveyor's Reel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-og8-f0yx_E

This following website report that it was composed by the great metis fiddler Andy Dejarlis.

http://www.cbfiddle.com/rx/tune/t4263.html

He did record it on a LP entitled Red River Echoes.

# Posted on January 18th 2010 by Carabus

Re: Acadien Fiddle Music is hard to find

Its in a Gordon Stobe book, Canadian Old-Time Fiddle Hits Volume 2.

http://www.fiddlebooks.com/bookcontent5.html

# Posted on January 18th 2010 by Carabus

Re: Acadien Fiddle Music is hard to find

http://www.cranfordpub.com

I just checked Paul Cranford's site, and he has one book with Québécois, and a couple of Canadian tune books.

Have you emailed him? He does respond to questions from tune collectors he might be able to send you in the right direction.

Acadien music is held richly in tradition, and very well passed along aurally, good luck finding that tune! Have you got it in a recording?
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# Posted on January 18th 2010 by SandyBottoms

Re: Acadien Fiddle Music is hard to find

The fiddler Lisa Ornstein (Portland, Oregon, USA) has played and researched Acadien music for many years.. she is a good source.. also if you are a part of the Yahoo group 'quebecnw ' , they post Acadien tunes for the members. (they are a Seattle-based quebecois discussion group)

# Posted on January 18th 2010 by jardineromi

Re: Acadien Fiddle Music is hard to find

I gratuitously insulted Acadien music by mistake, thinking it was *Cajun* music...

I have to admit, Cajun music sounds to me like a potato riddling machine singing.

# Posted on January 18th 2010 by nicholas

Re: Acadien Fiddle Music is hard to find

The banjo player on the video is Kenneth Saulnier from Saulnierville in La Baie Sainte Marie, Nova Scotia. Let me tell you that he is a great fiddle, banjo, mandoline. guitar, player, and sing and write songs..

# Posted on January 19th 2010 by Carabus

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