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Thread #119614   Message #2598520
Posted By: meself
27-Mar-09 - 09:53 AM
Thread Name: Canadian Folk Music
Subject: RE: Canadian Folk Music
Yes, that's the one, Ron. I don't anything about him, really, other than his name - which I obviously only half-know.

Ah! I had a notion that he was from out west somewhere, but after muffing his name, I was scared that I would make a fool of myself by mentioning that notion - so I just googled him, and found he was from Saskatchewan: here's a bio.

His name is Syrian, which is unusual in old time fiddling. (Of course, there was Lila Hashem, the preferred piano-accompanist of Cape Breton fiddler Winston Fitzgerald; she also led her own dance band. Oh - of Lebanese background.)