The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #131111   Message #2956334
Posted By: Phil Edwards
01-Aug-10 - 05:42 PM
Thread Name: Commando Trad: La musique traditionelle du Quebec
Subject: RE: commando trad
Fantastic - really joyful stuff.

Gilbert, if you're still here - what's the difference between gigue and danse? Are the gigueurs the ones doing what we'd call a clog dance on boards? Is that a québecois thing?

Also, did you have to get permission beforehand? It's hard to imagine getting more than a couple of minutes into something like that in this country before the leader had to stop playing and talk to Plod -

Would you mind telling me what you're doing, sir?
We're playing some tunes.
Tunes, sir?
We thought we'd play some traditional tunes.
And do you often play these... traditional tunes... in the street, sir?
No, this is our first time.

...and so on. Meanwhile it's time for the changeover between tunes, which half the band has managed seamlessly; unfortunately they only played one B part of the first tune on the last time through, so the remaining members of the band have stopped playing and are now either looking baffled or shouting at them. Probably not one for Youtube.

Brilliant stuff, anyway, and it's given us plenty of food for thought!