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    Can anyone recommend a good source of French Canadian fiddle tunes? I'm thinking of the kind of driving reels and jigs you hear on Vent Du Nord CDs. I've got an amplified foot stomp (Podorythmie) board and want to eventually get that together with my fiddle and mandolin playing.

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    Mel Bay has a tune book of Quebec tunes called Danse Ce Soir by Laurie Hart and Greg Sandell. Also, check out Lisa Ornstein a fiddler and scholar specializing in Quebec's traditional musicl: http://www.lisaornstein.com/ . I'm a big fan of Prince Edward Island Acadian fiddlers. Ken Perlman"s The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island has many Acadian tunes with recordings (also by Mel Bay). Search YouTube for "Gadelle" to hear PEI Acadian music.
    Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
    "I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
    Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.

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    Search for the free Montreal session book on internet. Also Alf Warnock’s free Tunebook.

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    All the other books above are excellent. In addition there is the encyclopedic 1000 Aires compiled by Olivier Demers a member of Le Vent du Nord. Available here: https://espaceparallele.ca/en/produc...quebec-tome-1/

    You didn’t say whether you were looking for notated sources or recordings or videos. Lots of great videos on YouTube by fiddlers and accordionists including some instructional ones by Pascal Gemme, André Brunet, etc.
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