Musiciens traditionnels québécois
Traditional musicians from Quebec
JEAN CARIGNAN
Disques Patrimoine, 1985, PAT 180009
Jean Carignan (1916-1988) was one of the legendary fiddlers in Quebec. He taught the fiddle himself from the age of five and by the age of fouteen became completely obcessed with it. The notes in French give some details about his early career . His repertoire is in fact quite Irish particularly from County Sligo. He met Michael Coleman at least once. In 1977 he went to Ireland to participate to the Michael Coleman Festival. Another huge name he met was Yehudi Menuhin. Carignan loved classical and romantic music. He had a huge collection of records by the greatest violonists such as Menuhin, Oistrakh or Stern. He could have had when still a kid private lessons with a classical music teacher but his father refused because he couldn't believe it was possible to make a living with music.
Here is backed by Herbert Ruff on piano and Aldor Morin who played spoons and ''feet'' typical of French Canadian music. I think there is also a double-bass not mentionned but too loud at times. The sound quality is not always good; these recordings were made in 1962.
Behind the French titles are Irish reels, jigs and hornpipes mostly.
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