YPM Edition 4C: Old-Time in Canada

Notes from Yew Piney Mountain Edition 4C: Old-Time in Canada

Erynn Marshall, from Victoria BC, is one of the most highly regarded old-time fiddlers in North America.

You can hear more of her stuff on MySpace, here streaming MP3s and read press releases here, and hear samples of her with the Haints here.

She is also very involved in many West Virgina old-time music festivals has a tremendous wealth of knowledge of music from that area.

Here she is playing in a West Virginia festival (Clifftop) and playing a West Virginia tune (from French Carpenter).



Credits: Video from YouTuber YewPineyMountain

French-Canadian Tunes

Came across these tunes today and loved them. There's a lot of great fiddle music out Quebec and these are two of them. I'm less familiar with this whole genre so I can't really offer any clever insights except to look more French-Canadian tunes up. Genticorum is perhaps the best modern recorded example of French-Canadian tradition. Enjoy.

The Bachands

These kids are too good, and they both spell their names with a Q. Check out more about them here.

Genticorum

Playing while keeping time with your feet seems tough... This guy does pretty well at it. They seem to have a small following in the New Old Time community.