Robert & Colin Benoit - The Huron Carol

Robert Benoit plays guitars and his son, Colin Benoit, plays the jambe drum and bells on the Canadian Christmas song, The Huron Carol. A Jesuit missionary, Jean de Brebeuf, wrote the song in 1643 in the native language of the Huron people, borrowing the tune from a French folk song. English lyrics for the song were written in 1926 by Jesse Edgar Middleton.Visit www.robertbenoit.net to buy the cd - Christmas Instrumentals- Robert & Colin Benoit.

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• Christmas
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[aztexblade]

can you play first part melody solo on an acoustic guitar and upload it please!!?? before this Friday i need to learn it for a concert, ty

[RobertBenoit13]

Send me your email address and i will write it in tab for you..

Robert

[mactcampbell]

Interesting piece of music. Who took the pictures?

[RobertBenoit13]

i was inspired by Tom Jackson for this christmas

carol

[cowpooca]

this is beautiful ....

[nitropost]

Noel n est pas loin, et cette piece est de mise et pertinante pour la saison qui approche. Merci Robert pour tes prestations si belles et honnetes. Je suis devenu un admirateur inconditionel de ta musique pure et symbolique.Pour un Quebecois devenu blase du cote commercial a tout prix de beaucoup trop d artistes locaux, ce que tu fais est une grande bouffe d air frais.

[Ludillandra1]

awesome!  thank you so much!

[CheckinGagaiNagain]

@xxoperaxxghostxx

Have yOu gOt the Original wOrds?

On a videO maybe.

[mscosmiccat]

This is magnificent.  Thank you.

[veritasisle]

Would it be possible for you to post the tab on your website, perhaps in a pdf format document?

I quite like this arrangement and it seems you use different guitars with different tuning - true?

Thanks

J

[superfleh]

It's "Nouvelle France"

[Marcpicker]

This arrangement is a great job. The melody of this carol is very typical of the taste of people that wrote the catholic and protestant hymnals in the beginning of the 17th century in France. Many profane songs of this period also rely on this style. I always thought that adapting this music to a bluegrass or jazz style was difficult and required musical tastes, skills and talent.