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Thread #104710   Message #2147860
Posted By: Art Thieme
12-Sep-07 - 09:13 PM
Thread Name: The Hangman's Reel
Subject: RE: The Hangman's Reel
Once again, you can see photographs I took of Jean Carignan at the second or third University Of Chicago Folk Festival in 1962 or 1963 at:

http://rudegnu.com/art_thieme.html

He was an amazing fiddler. From the stage, he said that it is often traditional in Quebec for a fiddlers to play seated and tap their feet in that rhythmic manner. I still have his performance of this song as recoded by radio station WFMT-FM in Chicago way back in those halcyon times.

One of my photos is of Mr. Carignan at Mandel Hall during a main evening concert. The other shot is a not very sharp photo of him with Tracy Schwarz during an afternoon workshop at Ida Noyes Hall on that campus. Also visible in the photo, standing against the wall and watching intently, is KENNY BAKER, the great fiddler with Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys who was also at that good festival. --- Look carefully and you'll see that Jean Carignan is playing sort of a Dobro-style fiddle. Instead of a standard hollow fiddle body the sound is amplified by a horn-like wind instrument appendage. I'd never seen anything like that before.
Art Thieme