Boucher à St Ambroise - power failure tunes
Channel: TOque Trad
Date: 2019-01-10

On April 4, 2018, our new home suffered a power failure when the concrete power pole across the street was downed in a wind storm.  To pass the time, we lit some candles and burned some precious cell phone battery to record one of my favourite tunes.

Tune: Boucher à St-Ambroise
Author: André Brunet (http://www.andrebrunet.com/)
Performer: Rob Rohr
Transcription: https://thesession.org/tunes/11806

I got the tune from an album called "B & B", a brilliant collaboration between André Brunet and Éric Beaudry.

The liner notes for the tune are:
"Ces deux gigues ont été composées par André lorsqu’il demeurait dans le 5e rang à Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare. La maison fut construite en 1918 par M. Joseph Boucher que eut une famille nombreuse comptant quelques violoneux."

My hamfisted translation:
"These two jigs were composed by André while living on 5th Concession in Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare. The house was built in 1918 by Mr. Joseph Boucher who had a large family counting among their number several fiddlers."

Hope you enjoy squinting while I play.

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