Bertrand Deraspe and Magdalen Island Fiddling

A video from the University of Laval ethnology department with Bertrand Deraspe playing a tune in the kitchen with his dad. The video starts off with a sweet twin fiddle waltz. Bertrand then talks in French about the fiddling style of the islands and the fact that many fiddlers play a slow style with very strong bowing. He demonstrates how Madelinots fiddlers have a different bow stroke than Cape Breton fiddlers. The Madelinot fiddlers, who were mostly fishermen with calloused hands and sometimes missing fingers, would tend to play with less notes and more rhythm. (From http://www.lafamilleleger.com).

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• Bertrand Deraspe
• Madelinots
• Magdalen Islands