If you want to go back to early playing of French Canadian music, take a look at the web sites of the National Library of Quebec

http://www2.biblinat.gouv.qc.ca/musique_78trs/accueil.htm


and the National Library of Canada

http://www2.nlc-bnc.ca/gramophone/src/home.htm

Both have transcriptions of 78s from 1900 onwards.

On the Quebec site go to "Index des Sujets" and look for "Danse folklorique, Musique de"

On the Canadian Site go to "Audio" or "Database". You can search by title, performer, label, issue number and year. You can guess by the titles which are songs and which are dance tunes. Alternatively look for well known performers such as Henri LaCroix, Isidore Soucy , Conrad Gauthier and Alfred Montmarquette.

I can also endorse Thirty Below for CDs and Books. I've had things from them over a number of years, shipped internationally, no problem.

Howard Mitchell
http://www.stradivarious.co.uk