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Thread #103700   Message #2115146
Posted By: GUEST,Murray on Saltspring
30-Jul-07 - 09:11 PM
Thread Name: Souvenir [film] music
Subject: Souvenir [film] music
In the Christopher Plummer film of 1989, "Souvenir", we see a village band complete with hurdy-gurdies playing a French folk tune, and children dancing. This in 1944; and again a new generation dancing to hurdy-gurdies in the eighties. I'm wondering if anyone can tell me what the dance/music was. I assume it's a real folk dance, and maybe from Oradour, site of the original tragedy; any I was fair charmed with the thing, and thought about getting a recording.....