Jean Carignan - Crowley's Reel

Jean Carignan plays Crowley's Reel for NFB Film

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[robingillan]

Fuckin geat my favorite fiddler for what its worth but I did have the edge on ole Jean at the Cambridge session (Eyngerland for all you Yanks oot there)on the tune Woman of the house . Well that is a one off and if Jean had o been there he'd have had the edge on me RIP My Good friend though I never knew yer JEAN CARRIGNAN (If you're still living I appologise

[chrisricker]

Ya Jean was a monster, he died in 1989 I think, I never got to see him in person either :(

[banjo234]

Excellent fiddle player. He must have got this from Sean McGuire. He plays it exactly the same way. Amazing a French Canadian can play Irish music so brilliantly in such a traditional style.

[chrisricker]

A lot of Jean Carignan Irish tunes he learned from Michael Coleman records, You should check or the Gael-Linn 2-CD set that is available of Colemans playing, you will be shocked! You can totally see where Sean McGuire got a lot of his tunes as well :D

[vithefiddler]

It's amazing how a little drink will loosen up an old man's joints. ;)

[LeiN514]

Banjo234

30% to 40% of the French speaking Quebecois

Have Irish Ancester

Émile Nelligan Quebec national Poet

Irish Father French Canadian Mother

La Bolduc she was the Quebec first singer/songwritter

her name was Mary-Anna Rose Travers

Again Irish Father French Canadian Mother

[madmodpo]

@GingerGrandma Philippe Bruneau died three weeks ago. Great musician indeed.

[colomon2]

Indeed, I noticed a few years back that Jean Carignan is frequently closer to Coleman's versions than most modern Irish fiddle players are!

[wis78rpm]

Nice bit of buck dancing / flat footing.

[1966guygosselin]

Ce tournage ce passe chez mon grand père Arcade a St Agathe De Lotbinière

à l'époque je n'avait que 7 ans maintenant je suis rendu a 44 !!! que de beau souvenir mon pere c'est Alcide Gosselin

[AlexisGuitar94]

Who is Crowley? Aleister Crowley?

[33377766699]

with short neck beer

music and dance in the kitchen

and mini skirt

that was the life in the 70's

[Pgitlitz]

Jean Carignan was a brilliant play! From the first time I heard him play an Irish tune I suspected he must have been a Coleman fan. Both because of the style and the age of the recording.

But naturally Carignan was superb at Quebecois tunes and he could play some American Oldtimey as well.

[Pgitlitz]

It was it's the Sligo style. Michael Coleman was the best exponent of the style and though he lived in New York where he started a lineage of players in this style, I have heard that folks back in Ireland waited on shore for ships to dock if they knew they contained a new Coleman recording. He was incredibly popular back on the old sod.

[Maginot]

February 16, 1988.

[shirehorse9]

Listening to Michael Coleman, it amazes me how Canadian he sounds. Fiddlers from regions in Canada play in this style and it's not just Ti-Jean. The style must have been pick up from a specific Irish tradition.