sinclair wrote:
>
> >Does anyone have some info. on this tune? I'm assuming it's of French
> >Canadian origin? Thanks!
>
> Since no one has replied (at least to the list)....
>
> The liner notes for the Celtic Fiddle Festival's first album have a
> mention, but not much. They play it with the Dionne Reel (a 5 part reel
> written in honor of the Dionne quintuplets) and I'm 99.95% certain that
> it's French Canadian. I think it was that tune which prompted Kevin Burke
> to declare the Acadians or Quebecois (I'm too tired to remember or figure
> it out correctly) honorary Irish because of their fiddle style.
>
Funny you should mention Kevin Burke. I heard a recording of him the
other day playing the tune we know as "Paresis", a pretty popular tune
in Cape Breton, esp. among the great players of the last generation,
like Winston Fitzgerald and Angus Chisholm. He has a different name for
it and he gives it a different feel, but it's definately the same tune.
I think Paresis is a tune from the "New World".
I was wondering about that tune because I think I heard it on a
recording of Sharon Shannon and Natalie MacMaster. Nice tune.
Toby Rider
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