You mean by George Wade and his Cornhuskers? Shows up as Anonymous when you search.
I don't remember them showing up when I parsed the Virt Gram a couple years back, perhaps they've updated things a bit. I notice there are a few records by Peter Wyper, a Scottish accordionist, but you can't download the MP3, just look at the label. There are a few MP3s of David Ferguson, a bagpiper.
Listen to this harmonica/mandolin piece for some good microtonal work: Savard, Fortunat - Valse de St-Jean.
Here's a few more Irish/Scottish/Etc tunes:
Rickett's Hornpipe
A. J. Boulay - Quadrille de Berthier, 3ème pa
Deil Amang the Tailors
Joseph Larocque - Le rêve du diable
Miss McLeod's
Tezraf Latour - Reel de Hull = Hull reel
Girl I Left Behind
A. J. Boulay - J'ai laissé mon amie : reel
Four Hand Reel
Joseph Allard - Reel du casse-tête
A. J. Boulay - Reel des cinq milles (Five mile chase reel)
René Houlé, violon avec piano - Reel [de] Tadoussac = Tadoussa
Blue Bell Polka
Joseph Allard - Set de Vaudreuil. 3ème partie
Fairy Reel
J. Alex Donato - Rigaudon - Gigues
Curlew Hills
Joseph Allard - Reel des montagnes (Mountain reel)
Miss Thornton
Joseph Allard - Le reel de la veuve
The Traveller
Isidore Soucy - Gigue des artisans
Smash the Windows
Tommy Duchene [i.e. Duchesne] - Gigue de Chicoutimi
Ewe Reel?
J.O. LaMadeleine, violon et gu - Clara reel
Hey, just noticed that Fortunat Savard's Reel des folkloristes is the Rose Tree polka. So add that to the above list. Equally avant garde to their other piece I mention above.
There are many interesting 'cross over' tunes on the site -- I've yet to get through even a small bit of what is there... but certainly plenty of French players doing Irish and Scots trad numbers under different titles. The problem comes in when I've heard the damned thing so many times that I should know its name like my street address, but can't for the life of me get it out of my memory.
...compiling the book of notes for my backup discs has become a daunting task of endlessly referencing and cross-referencing other sources to get the alternate titles down intact... I can't wait to begin the index.. but summers are slow around here and a guy needs a hobby, I guess.
Re: Acrobat reel - and french canadian tune titles
Actually, the microntoal effect is partly a result of Forunat playing in C on a tremolo harmonica while the banjo drones on F (or something neaby).
As to Reel des Folkloristes, it sound to me like "My Love is but a lassie yet," which shows up quite often in French Canadian trad music under various titles and also in other Canadian traditions. By way of comparison, check out the Henri Lacroix recording of "Quadrille Quadrille français" also at the same site:
Acrobat reel
Acrobat reel
That link to the Canadian gramophone stuff...
Is that not a tidy version of The ships-a-sailing ?
# Posted on June 23rd 2006 by Pete Stephenson.
Re: Acrobat reel
You mean by George Wade and his Cornhuskers? Shows up as Anonymous when you search.
I don't remember them showing up when I parsed the Virt Gram a couple years back, perhaps they've updated things a bit. I notice there are a few records by Peter Wyper, a Scottish accordionist, but you can't download the MP3, just look at the label. There are a few MP3s of David Ferguson, a bagpiper.
Listen to this harmonica/mandolin piece for some good microtonal work: Savard, Fortunat - Valse de St-Jean.
Here's a few more Irish/Scottish/Etc tunes:
Rickett's Hornpipe
A. J. Boulay - Quadrille de Berthier, 3ème pa
Deil Amang the Tailors
Joseph Larocque - Le rêve du diable
Miss McLeod's
Tezraf Latour - Reel de Hull = Hull reel
Girl I Left Behind
A. J. Boulay - J'ai laissé mon amie : reel
Four Hand Reel
Joseph Allard - Reel du casse-tête
A. J. Boulay - Reel des cinq milles (Five mile chase reel)
René Houlé, violon avec piano - Reel [de] Tadoussac = Tadoussa
Blue Bell Polka
Joseph Allard - Set de Vaudreuil. 3ème partie
Fairy Reel
J. Alex Donato - Rigaudon - Gigues
Curlew Hills
Joseph Allard - Reel des montagnes (Mountain reel)
Miss Thornton
Joseph Allard - Le reel de la veuve
The Traveller
Isidore Soucy - Gigue des artisans
Smash the Windows
Tommy Duchene [i.e. Duchesne] - Gigue de Chicoutimi
Ewe Reel?
J.O. LaMadeleine, violon et gu - Clara reel
# Posted on June 23rd 2006 by Kevin Rietmann
Re: Acrobat reel
Hey, just noticed that Fortunat Savard's Reel des folkloristes is the Rose Tree polka. So add that to the above list. Equally avant garde to their other piece I mention above.
# Posted on June 23rd 2006 by Kevin Rietmann
Re: Acrobat reel
There are many interesting 'cross over' tunes on the site -- I've yet to get through even a small bit of what is there... but certainly plenty of French players doing Irish and Scots trad numbers under different titles. The problem comes in when I've heard the damned thing so many times that I should know its name like my street address, but can't for the life of me get it out of my memory.
...compiling the book of notes for my backup discs has become a daunting task of endlessly referencing and cross-referencing other sources to get the alternate titles down intact... I can't wait to begin the index.. but summers are slow around here and a guy needs a hobby, I guess.
# Posted on June 25th 2006 by gravelwalks
Re: Acrobat reel
"microtonal work," good lord, you should be a comedian...
# Posted on June 25th 2006 by gravelwalks
Re: Acrobat reel
What kills me is the jews/jaw harp played on both the draw and the push. If I were ten years younger ....
# Posted on June 27th 2006 by Pete Stephenson.
Re: Acrobat reel
"What kills me is the jews/jaw harp played on both the draw and the push. If I were ten years younger ...."
I *did* try it when I was ten years younger. Still not young enough - I nearly passed out.
# Posted on June 27th 2006 by Bob himself
Re: Acrobat reel - and french canadian tune titles
Actually, the microntoal effect is partly a result of Forunat playing in C on a tremolo harmonica while the banjo drones on F (or something neaby).
As to Reel des Folkloristes, it sound to me like "My Love is but a lassie yet," which shows up quite often in French Canadian trad music under various titles and also in other Canadian traditions. By way of comparison, check out the Henri Lacroix recording of "Quadrille Quadrille français" also at the same site:
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/m2/f7/13937.mp3
Now, can anyone give me an Irish title for Savard's recording of "Quadrille des Montagnards"?
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/m2/f7/14599.mp3
Some quebecois musicians think it derives from an Irish Polka but of course no-one can come up with a name.
Winslow
# Posted on June 27th 2006 by Winslow Yerxa