Nail that Catfish Don Messer's Breakdown St. Anne's Reel

Qristina & Quinn performing at the Victoria French Festival, March 17, 2007 a medley of varied fiddle tunes, a contemporary tune by Steve Rosen (Nail that Catfish to the Tree), a tune by Canada's own Don Messer, and finally east coast favorite St. Anne's Reel.

The way Nail that Catfish got its name is interesting... The story goes that Steve was fishing in the south and caught a catfish. An older local man told him that the only way to skin a catfish was to nail the catfish to the tree and skin him out....

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• Appalachian
• Don
• Messer
• Breakdown
• St.
• Anne's
• Reel
• fiddle
• violin
• guitar
• traditional
• folk
• Qristina
• Quinn
• Bachand
• festival

[Mandolin1944]

Nicely done as are all of your vids. I like the version of Nail that Catfish especially. And what was the great tune in the middle? I must learn that one!

Thanks. We go to Celtic Colours every other year or so -- hope we see you on stage one of these times -- you are certainly good enough. But its a long ways away to travel of course. We drove across BC on our way to Alaska last spring and ski Whistler when possible --- BC is a treasure on earth.

[TheBachands]

Hi, thanks for your comments! The tune after Catfish is Don Messer's "Breakdown". We would love to perform at Celtic Colours, in fact, we'll be sending our information to the artistic director so maybe next year we'll be there. Qristina & Quinn

[dbadagna]

The fiddler plays wonderfully! It's a somewhat more refined style than the Appalachian, with very nice ornamentation that gives it a little bit of a classical or European sound. Can you tell us where these musicians are from (I'm guessing somewhere from Eastern Canada)?

[TheBachands]

Hi, we're from the West Coast, we live in Victoria, British Columbia. We are Qristina & Quinn Bachand and this is our youtube channel. Thanks for your good comments! Qristina

[eldermother]

Nail that Catfish isn't a tune from Appalachia. Steve Rosen (who lives in Chicago when he's not somewhere else fishing) wrote that tune back when he was a member of the Volo Bogtrotters.

[TheBachands]

Yes, you're right, we should change the comments on the video, a fiddle teacher taught us this tune years ago and called it an Appalachian tune. We have since then spoken with Steve Rosen and realize that it isn't. In fact, the story of how the tune got is name is rather funny. Thanks for the heads up on our misrepresentation... will make that correction...

[botulizer]

Hey if you get over to vancouver now and then make sure to drop by the anza club on a monday night for the bluegrass jam!

[Linuxrat]

Whoa! Did I see smoke coming off that fiddle?!

[oilsander1]

Excellent!

[johnnycharco]

I was inclined to go to the kitchen to get a set of spoons and play along. Thanks for sharing :)

[phillaneseventhirty]

I wish i could have gotten along with my sister to play music with her, although it would have been reversed her on guitar and me playin my fiddle. Good Qristina & Quinn I quite enjoy your music and i'd like to say i play by ear and i learned Turkey in the straw by listioning to their Fiddle - Sailor's Hornpipe, Oh Susanna, Turkey in the Straw video.