Tidal Wave

Sabin Jacques, Accordion, bones and foot percussion
Rachel Aucoin, Piano
Stuart Kenney, Upright bass and Banjo
André Brunet, Fiddle and Foot percussion
Eric Favreau, Fiddle
Claudine Arcand, Fiddle

# Posted on September 5th 2007 by drumvision

Contra Music of Quebec by Tidal Wave

Tidal Wave is a French-Canadian band based in Quebec. Its French name is "Raz de Marée". The band specialises, as you would expect, in the rhythms and melodies of the region.

Claudine Arcand, a guest fiddle player with the band, was in Bristol, England, this last weekend, giving a workshop, and came to a session at the Nova Scotia pub. She mentioned how foot-tapping is often an integral part of the music they play, and was herself doing some intricate foot-tapping during her playing.

The second tune on track 5, "Reel à Céduile", a flowing and fast reel, is an excellent one for would-be foot-tappers, being a mixture of 4/4, 3/4, 5/4, 3/8, and 5/8. BTW, just because the last bar in the A-part section is in 5/4 it doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be in 5/4 in the repeat - in fact it is in 4/4. And in the B-part the final 3/8 bar changes to 5/8 in the repeat.

7 of the tunes on the CD are traditional, the others are copyright.

A tune book of the CD, transcribed by Claudine, is available.

The CD, GMM 2022, is published by Great Meadow Music, P.O. Box 4, Westmoreland, NH 03467
603-399-8361.
http://www.greatmeadowmusic.com

To buy this CD, visit http://www.tidalwavemusic.com
or contact (USA):
Stuart Kenney
55 Kately Hill Road
Leyden, MA 01301 (US)
(413) 773-1671
ou contactez (Qc / Canada):
Sabin Jacques / Rachel Aucoin
14913 boulevard Gouin ouest
Montreal, Qc, H9H 1B4 Canada
(514) 624-8068

The guest musicians on the CD appear in the following tracks:
André Brunet 3, 4, 6, 12
Eric Favreau 5, 7, 8, 9
Claudine Arcand 1, 2, 10, 11

# Posted on October 16th 2007 by lazyhound

Contra Music of Quebec by Tidal Wave

I forget to mention that the tune book for the CD also gives the chords.

# Posted on October 16th 2007 by lazyhound