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Mel Bedard ‎– Metis Fiddler. Label: Sunshine Records Ltd. ‎– SSBLP-421. Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo. Photography By – June Bedard. Piano – Yvette Carriere. Producer, Fiddle – Mel Bedard. Matrix, Runout: WRC-1-3302 A-1A-2H.

Mel Bedard plays "The Sleeping Giant," "Swing Tucker," "The Red River Jig," and more at the John Arcand Fiddle Fest, held at John Arcand's Windy Acres. ca for more resources on Métis history and culture! Категория.

Métis fiddler John Arcand has been awarded the 2014 Canada Council Molson Prize in the arts and social sciences. Métis fiddler Mel Bedard will be remembered for his prodigious talent and generous spirit.

Marcel’s book Red River Echoes: The Life and Music of Marcel Meilleur, was published by Pemmican Publications Inc. in 2003. what, but we play the same beat and the same tunes as the Canadians, but played double string. The Metis tuned the G-string of the fiddle to an A to imitate the sound of the pipes. The low A of the Red River Jig was an imitation of a bagpipe’s B flat drone, since A is the closest open string to B flat. A second fiddler would often play backup rhythm on the fiddle: this was called bucking or Le Boss. Sometimes this fiddler would play a single drone note to imitate a common effect produced by the single drone note of the Ulean pipes observed in Scottish-Irish jigs and reels.

métis fiddler quartet. Métis Fiddle Medley - Patti Lamoureux. The Métis Fiddler Quartet performs "Through the Woodlands" from their album North West Voyage Nord Ouest at Harbourfront. Red River Jig. 12 лет назад. Fiddling music with some random pics. Mel Bedard - Metis Fiddler - Side 2. 3 месяца назад. By popular demand: the other half. Mel Bedard - Metis fiddler - Side 1. Год назад. Sierra Noble - Amazing Metis Fiddler. Sierra was a huge hit at the 2007 Lunenburg Harbour Folk Festival.

Jean-Baptiste "John" Arcand, CM (born July 19, 1942 in Jackson Lake, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian fiddler, composer, teacher, and luthier. Arcand has been writing and performing since childhood, having learned the traditional Red River Métis tunes from his father Victor and his grandfather Jean-Baptiste. He has said "I knew from childhood I would be a fiddler," he said. I love the constant challenge because you cannot ever master the fiddle.

The Métis Fiddler Quartet performs "Through the Woodlands" from their album North West Voyage Nord Ouest at Harbourfront Centre's Lakeside Terrace for. Metis Fiddler Quartet, Album traditionnel de l'Annee, PMFC 2012. One piece from their Friday night Showcase in Saint John, Nouveau.

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