In an attempt to clarify origins of St. Anne's Reel - it is a French Canadian fiddle tune. My mother said she remembered her father playing it in Winnipeg in the 1920s. He learned it from a fiddler from Quebec. Nobody seems to know the actual composer, although Joseph Allard, a French Canadian fiddler, made it popular and more universally known in the 1930s. Since then it has been recorded by many musicians, and Country of Origin claimed by many. Some say it was named for St. Anne's, a suburb of Montreal, others point to St. Ann's Bay in Nova Scotia.
fiddlermoth Very popular in French Canada, I always tought that was a mazurka from County Donegal which had travelled through the Irish Migrants in Lower Canada (now Québec). My guess is that a French-Canadian fiddler must have «up-tempoed» it to what it is today. It's only an intuition of mine, though.
I learned it as a French-Canadian tune. Then an Irish fiddler I know broke it out at a session. The fiddler was a trove of Irish tunes but little beyond that. Perhaps the tune has had a more circuitous route than I’ve realized.
These videos have made me realise how much I enjoy watching (ie not just listening to) people play great music. This is what live music should be like, as if you're sitting in amongst them being able to see every finger movement, it's magical. I've just got to become a world-class instrumentalist first...hmm.. p.s. "whopee!" - Class.
Totally stunning musicianship it's wonderful to see lads playing like that, notes rolling off fingerboards and the great thing they love doing it. Methinks I need to practice more on me Guitar. Blown away by the playing. Well done lads
Keep practicing kids! Who knows? By the time you're 60, you may play almost half this well! Aly Bain so awesome and Jerry Douglas - how can anyone get that good in a mere lifetime?? Amazing!
This sooo flippin' good! These guy's are the man! I've just started learning this song on guitar except in a less complicated version. It's such a lovely song.
Tim try and find Ricky Skaggs ,Paddy Glackin and Mark O'Connor's version on volume two of Bringing it all back home, You might change your mind, It is a hard cd to find though.
Wow, kirsty, I'm glad you mentioned that. I thought it was aimed at me... I'm quoting lyrics from a song based on this tune, called "The Ballad of St Anne's Reel".
@clarebannerman : Hello Clare, Reel Saint-Anne has been played all the maritimes and is also part of the French Canadian repertoire. I'm not sure of its origin. I would say it is the most known reel in Canada overall.
@txmacartist In that vein, I like Mark O'Connor's answer to the difference between a violinist and a fiddle player: I know of a lot of ex-violinists; I don't know any ex-fiddle-players.
I've heard that tune before somewhere but I can't remember when. Was it on some other friendly shore, did I hear it on the wind? Was it written in the stars above? I think I heard it from someone I love, But I've never heard it sound so sweet since then.
@sisteraba actually a 'fiddle' has a different bridge. The bridge on a violin for classical playing typically has a higher arch for more precise playing, and the bridge for folk or traditional playing typically is a 'fiddle bridge' that is flatter. It's not a huge difference but other than how it's played that's the only real way for there to be a difference. I play fiddle style but my new violin has the classical arched bridge, I have to get a fiddlin bridge put on it.
I've always understood it to be from Prince Edward Island ... which is just across the way. I may be wrong on this though. It is definitely played widely throughout Cape Breton and mainland Nova Scotia though
Hi there all bluegrass-reel-and picking fans ! l know St Anne's Reel is most likely all genuine irish, and I've heard someone even refering to it as being of celtic origin, to which I though must have to object; nothing at all about the melodic structure bears much resemblence to what would be expected from a celtic tune. I'd like to point out that to me and many others from around these parts, St Anne's Reel always sounded arch - Scandinavian, especially Danish/Southern-Swedish, like if a standard piece of our common folk(e)musik heritage,so totally in line with our tradition. Very homely to listen to.
Well, a lot of Norwegian music has Irish traditional melodies, but with Norwegian texts. "Gje meg handa di, ven" is set to "Down by the Sally Gardens" for example. However, whereas the Irish text is essentially "Fuck Her Gently" from the 1800s, the Norwegian text is a lot more wholesome to say the least. Hell, going over old sheet music, a lot of the melodies are credited as "Irish trad."
Regardless of origin, this reel is common in Bluegrass and Irish recordings and sessions. So much so that Canadian or Scottish renditions are overshadowed. It is understandable that people hearing it at an Irish session or on many Irish performer recordings would start to call it an Irish tune, however incorrect that would be historically. (Chieftains, Dubliners, Micho Russell, etc). It is similar to the misnomer "Jazz Standard" where great Tin Pan Alley or Broadway Show tunes are performed by jazz bands, sometimes to the dismay of the creators of those tunes (Kern, Rodgers).
I have a 12-string classical guitar that I use for a slide and a guitar teacher who plays fab despite his wrist injuries that he sustained years ago. When I get the chance, I will ask him to teach me some more slide, so I can be as good as Jerry :)
Although it's worth pointing out that a bodhran is common in Scottish music too. The tune's probably Irish - I did hear an Australian version of it that sounded awesome though.
Although some Irish claim St. Anne's, I am certain that it is a French-Canadian reel that crossed back to the British Isles. Peace, you Hibernians--Ireland was British back when St. Anne's landed there.
Even some of you good people telling it's origin is french-canadian, I would say the origin could also be Irish, Scottish or from Shetland. We know for a fact that many immigrants came to America and settled down. And of course they brought both instruments and music of it's origin with them. How music travels is interesting.
Any time Aly Bain and Jerry Douglas are in the same room together, it is bound to be magic.
There are no words to describe how beautiful this is! How much tremendous talent in one room?!
I know Aly Bain and Jerry Douglas are the stars of the show but I had to smile back when the bass player smiled. This is what's good in us.
Absolutely! When did you became a fan?
They started the whole series of shows.
Ally Bain is a magician on the fiddle. So nice to listen to a master of his craft. More please
What a feel for the wee fiddle makes my heart miss a beat - top musicians
How fortunate are we to have them around. Cheers fae the Highlands.
In an attempt to clarify origins of St. Anne's Reel - it is a French Canadian fiddle tune. My mother said she remembered her father playing it in Winnipeg in the 1920s. He learned it from a fiddler from Quebec. Nobody seems to know the actual composer, although Joseph Allard, a French Canadian fiddler, made it popular and more universally known in the 1930s. Since then it has been recorded by many musicians, and Country of Origin claimed by many. Some say it was named for St. Anne's, a suburb of Montreal, others point to St. Ann's Bay in Nova Scotia.
fiddlermoth Very popular in French Canada, I always tought that was a mazurka from County Donegal which had travelled through the Irish Migrants in Lower Canada (now Québec). My guess is that a French-Canadian fiddler must have «up-tempoed» it to what it is today. It's only an intuition of mine, though.
I heard St Anne was Mary's Mother.. anyone know about that?
@@danielcoleman4807 Yes, she was 😊 Many places have been named after her all over the world!
It is well est as a New Brunswick tune. One of the oldest in Canada
I learned it as a French-Canadian tune. Then an Irish fiddler I know broke it out at a session. The fiddler was a trove of Irish tunes but little beyond that. Perhaps the tune has had a more circuitous route than I’ve realized.
WOW! Russ is a real talented, classic picker. Clean and effortless!!
Oh heck yeah. Russ Barenberg is at the very top of the flatpicking world and has been for decades
Truly amazing musicians! Thank you all!
Gorgeous through and through. Jerry Douglas' solo transcends on this great tune.
Russ Barenberg was even better.
What wonderful playing! Skilful, subtle, imaginative, joyful.
Timeless classic!❤️❤️
I could listen to that again... think I will.
Great tune!
What gifts. Thankful they share them. Just awesome!
Aly has the sweetest tone, and Jerry is king of the dobro!
Brilliant I love it when musicians interpret a piece of music and 'make it' their own. Delicate easy playing love it
did they ever
Love this stuff! Wish I had one tenth the talent they have in their little finger!!!
As you practice your brain and muscles grow into it. You just need the right material.
One of my favorite reels. St. Ann's Reel. Played well.
One of my favorite tunes of all time! Thanks for sharing.
These videos have made me realise how much I enjoy watching (ie not just listening to) people play great music. This is what live music should be like, as if you're sitting in amongst them being able to see every finger movement, it's magical.
I've just got to become a world-class instrumentalist first...hmm..
p.s. "whopee!" - Class.
Totally stunning musicianship it's wonderful to see lads playing like that, notes rolling off fingerboards and the great thing they love doing it. Methinks I need to practice more on me Guitar. Blown away by the playing. Well done lads
you can tell Todd Parks, the bassist, is just happy to be in a room with such musicianship. i know i would be.
Keep practicing kids! Who knows? By the time you're 60, you may play almost half this well! Aly Bain so awesome and Jerry Douglas - how can anyone get that good in a mere lifetime?? Amazing!
This is my absolute favourite fiddle tune!!!
a very nice tune:)
every time it does chill me down
thx to someone:)
This sooo flippin' good! These guy's are the man! I've just started learning this song on guitar except in a less complicated version. It's such a lovely song.
I love that dobro sound! Amazing, the entire thing is just excellent!
Saw this on one of the BBC channels last week! Couldn't believe a C&W luminary like Jerry was in a crofters cottage in Scotland! Great Music
amazing! great stuff. these people are experts. love acoustic music. thanx for uploading.
Great stuff again from these masters. Love to see them live though, I've seen
Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham two or three times, teriffic!
wow, this is a real high quality video of some real talent......
Hands down my favorite fiddle tune. The A and B parts just flow in and out of each other seamlessly. Well done Ireland.
St Anne's is a Canadian reel I think.
Me encanta y ST Aneel - Aly Bain with Jerry DouclasBarenberg.será uno de mis preferidos. Isidoro.
Absolutely wonderful!
Impresionante Jerry, espectacular! Genio del slide, muy bueno con Union Station y Alison Krauss!
Great playing.. thank u for sharing. ..
Best Rendition (fiddler) on the net. Great work, Aly Bain !!!
This is still great and will be a long time from now, maybe forever?
Love their rendition!
Damn, how have I never heard of this before. Awesome.
This song rox! I like that fiddle!
Ahh St Anne's reel one of the first tunes I learned on my Mandolin (Not as good as this lot, Yet)
thanks for posting it.
Don't forget Russ Barenberg. He's a legend also!
the difference between a violin and a fiddle, is a violin has strings, and a fiddle has straings.
A violin has never had moonshine spilled on it
Ask Itzak Perlmann ifølge that is true!!
I doubt you'll ever run across a violin with a rattlesnake's rattle in it.
I love Aly Bain's playing!
I get chills
Best version of this classic tune .
Tim try and find Ricky Skaggs ,Paddy Glackin and Mark O'Connor's version on volume two of Bringing it all back home, You might change your mind, It is a hard cd to find though.
Wow, kirsty, I'm glad you mentioned that. I thought it was aimed at me...
I'm quoting lyrics from a song based on this tune, called "The Ballad of St Anne's Reel".
just beautifull
These guys our great. I'm dancin.
love it
thanks for this reel, good job
Wow. So good.
Really nice! Thank you
Awesome, thanks.
@clarebannerman : Hello Clare, Reel Saint-Anne has been played all the maritimes and is also part of the French Canadian repertoire. I'm not sure of its origin. I would say it is the most known reel in Canada overall.
superb:-))
ta for posting the vid.
ellie
Fantastic,,,,
love it, thanks
Amazing. post in 1080 please. WOW
Brilliant!!!
@txmacartist In that vein, I like Mark O'Connor's answer to the difference between a violinist and a fiddle player: I know of a lot of ex-violinists; I don't know any ex-fiddle-players.
right!! well done!
Amazing!
I've heard that tune before somewhere but I can't remember when.
Was it on some other friendly shore, did I hear it on the wind?
Was it written in the stars above? I think I heard it from someone I love,
But I've never heard it sound so sweet since then.
The Ballad of St. Anne's Reel. Thanks for reminding me, I'm gonna listen to the Clancey-Makem version of that next.
Great !
TALENT. Nuff said.
jerry is King of dobro w/o any doubt. he's played with just about all the great blue grass people. Alain awesome fiddler. Russ nice guitar break.
I really love the ending. Final chord... silence... ....*whohoo!*...
Super de bon reel 😊❤😅
Aly Bain!!!!
Thank you tomtscotland!
Russell B. is one of my faves and Jerry Douglas ain't too bad either!
@sisteraba actually a 'fiddle' has a different bridge. The bridge on a violin for classical playing typically has a higher arch for more precise playing, and the bridge for folk or traditional playing typically is a 'fiddle bridge' that is flatter. It's not a huge difference but other than how it's played that's the only real way for there to be a difference. I play fiddle style but my new violin has the classical arched bridge, I have to get a fiddlin bridge put on it.
ジェリー＝ダグラスが出てきてトラッドを演奏すると、どうしてこんなに良いのだろう。変なことを言う日本人だとと思う貴方、ヘッドホンで聴いてみてください。心に染み入る演奏です。
Tremendous 👍🏻
I've always understood it to be from Prince Edward Island ... which is just across the way. I may be wrong on this though. It is definitely played widely throughout Cape Breton and mainland Nova Scotia though
Super big loke guys from guitarist Marcus Meek
Look at those fingers go!! now that's some skill there.
Thanks.
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Hi there all bluegrass-reel-and picking fans ! l know St Anne's Reel is most likely all genuine irish, and I've heard someone even refering to it as being of celtic origin, to which I though must have to object; nothing at all about the melodic structure bears much resemblence to what would be expected from a celtic tune. I'd like to point out that to me and many others from around these parts, St Anne's Reel always sounded arch - Scandinavian, especially Danish/Southern-Swedish, like if a standard piece of our common folk(e)musik heritage,so totally in line with our tradition. Very homely to listen to.
FenceThis st,annes reel is not Irish...
french canadian/acadian. i wish doc watson had tackled this one. doc was pretty much the king at adapting fiddle tunes to guitar
Interesting....
Well, a lot of Norwegian music has Irish traditional melodies, but with Norwegian texts.
"Gje meg handa di, ven" is set to "Down by the Sally Gardens" for example. However, whereas the Irish text is essentially "Fuck Her Gently" from the 1800s, the Norwegian text is a lot more wholesome to say the least.
Hell, going over old sheet music, a lot of the melodies are credited as "Irish trad."
Regardless of origin, this reel is common in Bluegrass and Irish recordings and sessions. So much so that Canadian or Scottish renditions are overshadowed. It is understandable that people hearing it at an Irish session or on many Irish performer recordings would start to call it an Irish tune, however incorrect that would be historically. (Chieftains, Dubliners, Micho Russell, etc). It is similar to the misnomer "Jazz Standard" where great Tin Pan Alley or Broadway Show tunes are performed by jazz bands, sometimes to the dismay of the creators of those tunes (Kern, Rodgers).
It's the tune everyone agrees on....
Is this for reel?
Do', bro.
the violin puts you to sleep while the fiddle makes you wanna get up and dance !
I have a 12-string classical guitar that I use for a slide and a guitar teacher who plays fab despite his wrist injuries that he sustained years ago. When I get the chance, I will ask him to teach me some more slide, so I can be as good as Jerry :)
Although it's worth pointing out that a bodhran is common in Scottish music too. The tune's probably Irish - I did hear an Australian version of it that sounded awesome though.
Depends upon whether you're buying or selling :)
I've heard this one time played by pure polish folk musicians. Different accents and much slower but tune were the same. Isn't it strange?
bravo!!
One word ---- smooth :)
this was excellent, but once I heard that "Ballad of st catherines reel." I loved it. do you know who did it? I heard it on the radio.
are you thinking of 'Ballad of St. Anne Reel'? Clancy +Makem have a nice version of it.
Amen...
Am I right in saying that St.Anne's Reel is a Cape Briton tune?
Although some Irish claim St. Anne's, I am certain that it is a French-Canadian reel that crossed back to the British Isles. Peace, you Hibernians--Ireland was British back when St. Anne's landed there.
brilliant1
@TomFan42 Grandpa was still playing up until his death at 97.
jerry douglas's solo rocks
Even some of you good people telling it's origin is french-canadian, I would say the origin could also be Irish, Scottish or from Shetland.
We know for a fact that many immigrants came to America and settled down. And of course they brought both instruments and music of it's origin with them. How music travels is interesting.
@caterthun I always heard the difference between a violin and a fiddle is about $10,000 :)
Sorry for being a noob but what's the difference between a violin and a fiddle? Is it just in the way they're played? Great song anyways.
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