Ode à Canada Concert à Porche with Bundle & Go The selections in this video album are from a one-hour performance at the home of Laura MacKenzie and Gary Rue on August 29, 2021 in St. Paul, Minnesota, one of a series of Sunday evening neighborhood porch concerts which they hosted during the pandemic summers…

La Turlutte à Antonio Bazinet A turlutte is a kind of lilting that is popular in Québéc, sometimes accompanied by the uniquely Québécois practice of double foot-tapping (“podorhythmie”).  Antonio Bazinet was a farmer who lived near the Laurentian Mountains.  He sang and fiddled this tune at a folk festival in Montreal, where it became a…

These three tunes offer a taste of the vigorous and distinctive music of the Acadian region of eastern Canada.  They were collected and recorded on the revelatory CD Sur l’an premier by Robin LeBlanc of New Brunswick with Nicholas Basque on guitar.  A very useful guide to this music is acadianfiddle.com, developed by Louis and…

Reel de Joseph Larade (trad.) Some of the Acadian families that were expelled by the British in the mid-18th century settled in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Our first tune is an untitled reel from Joseph Larade, whose fine singing and fiddle playing (sometimes combined) were recorded by folklorist Father Anselme Chiasson in the late 1950s.…