I would hate to think that anything I said above was taken as any slight on Canadian fiddlers. I had the pleasure of meeting with and playing with Joe Cormier (uncle of JP) during my sojourn in the States and it was an absolute pleasure to hear him play.

It has to be said that one or two of the New England fiddlers I played with were a bit dismissive of the Cape Breton style, commenting that they "played between the cracks", whatever that might mean, I couldn't possibly comment.

Quebecois fiddling might be totally different to Cape Breton style, what would I know ...

I do hope mg has taken no offence at my remarks regarding the videos, it is just that I have posted up dozens of links to what I consider to be outstanding examples of musicality and virtuosity, only to see the videos removed by YouTube due to "terms of use violations".

Youtube was way better before Google took them over ...