French Canadian fiddling & step dancing The Woman of the House Emile Benoit
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- French-Canadian fiddling & step dancing. Émile Benoit,Joachim Benoit, Benjamin Benoit & Georges Chiasson, fiddles; Geneviève and Charlie Chiasson, dance. Recorded 1979 Port-au-Port Peninsula, Newfoundland
Émile Benoit was born in 1913 and was the pre-eminent dance musician of his generation on the Port-au-Port Peninsula.
From JVC/Smithsonian Video Anthology of Music & Dance of the Americas, Disc 1
This is flipping great, i love the rhythm of the music and the dancing couple, you will not hear any complaints from those 2 fine dancers saying, I can't move, I have pain in my back.
God Love Genvieve she use to take care of me when I was a youngster. Awesome woman
In Quebec, we call this dance a ''gigue''.
Bah oui.
Kitchen party simalar to the ones I knew. Good memories. The wood stove, the modern kitchen set replacing the wooden one sent into the attic. We were climbing the social ladder.
Les veillées dans la cuisine comme je les ai connues. Bons souvenirs. Le poêle à bois, le "set" de cuisine moderne qui remplace le vieux"set" en bois monté au grenier. Nous grimpions dans l'échelle sociale.
C’est magnifique
Great! It is so wonderful to hear French Canadian music and watch French Canadian clogging . Here in Massachusetts it seems that it is very hard to have the chance to hear and see it . Thanks
You’re right. Nothing in Mass for clogging. Go Red Sox.
The tune is an Irish Reel and it's played with a French Newfoundland flavour.
Go to a local contradance
Lowell and Woonsocket still have plenty on old Memeres and Peperes across homes and nursing facilities who still engage is family music sessions.
oui oui bonjour eh aha
Great to listen to and watch this.
Good job fam
Jeeze that looks like Genvieve Rouzes and George Chiasson
bravo bravo j'adore ça.
Well done!
beautiful
I Love it !
WOW. Wonderful. Being irish myself, I can see there is no small part of the Irish in that.....even the folks look like they.re straight out of Connemara. Absolutely brilliant.
jimmy miller.....this originates in scotland....fiddle reel music/scottish stepdance/ceilidths etc.
@@brucecollins4729 hi Bruce…. Most of what’s in Scotia Beag originated in Scotia Mor…. So let’s say, we can both claim parentage 😜
@@jimmymiller5896 hi jimmy...a have to disagree . scotia never existed it,s a medieval tale. the irish music you see today only started in the late 50s when the clancies who were actually actors took to singing. they readily adopted the more lively/fun /raucous scottish style alang with many scottish and english folk sangs due to their limited repertoire. scottish fiddle reel music would have entered ireland from scotland in the late 1800s alang with 100s of scottish fiddle reels. ceilidths and ceilidth music adopted from scotland in the early 1900s.
@@brucecollins4729 Hi Bruce….. obviously a proud Scot, and more power to ye but I don’t think anyone will accept that we in Ireland sat in the dark with no music or dance of our own, for far far far longer than Scotland was one ethic group.
We had traditional song & dance …. And kilts, pipes & tartan, not to mention a developed organised civilisation, for that matter, long before anything was in Scotland.
Unfortunately, you seem to know little of Irish history, recent & ancient.
The clancies are great & may well have taken much from Scots music, which is also appreciated by your cousins over here, but they aren’t traditional Irish & never sang the oldest of Irish songs that would be still loved here & abroad, By Irish & non Irish alike.
No p!sing contest meant but in fairness, I didn’t start the measuring contest.
Slan
@@jimmymiller5896 hi jimmy....every country in the world would have dance. what am sayin is fiddle reel music and scottish stepdance have been in canada since at least the 1700s. fiddle reel music is indigenous to scotland. there are 100s of scots tunes in ireland. you did say that eerything in scotland came from ireland. scotia is a mythical tale. look up.......ireland and the celtic culture in search of ancient ireland knowth......then......leabhar gabhala the study of celtic mythology essay.......then......book of invasions-mythical history-ireland calling.....it,s a nonsense created by medieval monks.......just like st columba, a tale copied from an earlier tale from another country. look up.......history ireland reinventing tradition the boundaries of irish dance helen brennan.......then.......irish dancing ceili histclo.....you will notice the young lad is wearing akilt,not traditional to ireland, then........music essays|traditional irish ireland.......then.....irish traditional music feature ask about ireland........then......learning about the irish reel dance irish american mom.......then......irish kilts the ultimate guide to everything you need to know........irish kilt history your-kilt......then.....history of the irish kilt-little shamrocks.......then......long forgotten gaelic songs of rathlin and the glens......if you research the irish sangs..suill aruin and dulaman you will find they are scottish in origins. irish nationalists adopted the scottish culture to rid themselves of english colonialism in the 1800s. am in ma 70s a was around when irish music we see today started......the clancies in the late 50s,the dubliners in 62 then the furies in the 70s.if you research a few fiddle tunes you will see they are scottish or english in origins. obviously you are entitled to do your own research.
He was one of our great tradition bearers, and had a huge influence on the younger generation of musicians. But he wasn’t French Canadian, though, he was a French Newfoundlander. His culture and his language are different from the culture and language of Quebec.
Newsflash: Newfoundland has joined Canada.
He was my dad and yes he was a wonderful french newfoundlander!
I think you mean he wasn’t a Québécois .
@@nozeconeNEWS FLASH newfoundland voted no!! joey smallwood had the ballot boxes seized and burned
@@nozecone By the term "French Newfoundlander" I think they mean that they came directly from France to NL. I know Emile's people came directly from France to NL.
Sweet . . .
Does anyone know if there's more film of this particular evening?
Whoo! Get it!
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It is fascinating to see some of the similarities between cultures. I have see the Irish play music and dance in a similar fasion.
Everybody used to, but it's coming back - people going back to their roots. Scottish, Cape Breton (from Scotland), Irish old time, Welsh clog, Cornish clog, English Clog, east England hard shoe, whatever. The funny thing is that the English like to make fun of English Clog Dancers. By clog, I mean wooden soled shoes with leather uppers as used to be worn by miners and mill girl workers - industry in general. And American dancing came with the settlers. Then there's Ottawa Valley style. I guess there must be French step dancing in Brittany where settlers came from - not sure.
this derives from scottish fiddle music and scottish stepdance.
@@glasgowbrian1469 Kelli Trottier - Ottawa Valley fiddler and step dancer.
We are deeply connected, we sprout from the same roots.
Hey Jon
I’m a new RUclipsr starting a series on NFLD and Labrador folklore. Emile and Rita were friends of mine when I studied folklore at memorial. I was wondering if I could use a portion of this video in my introductory video. Thank you
Ellen T
BC
Almost sound French Acadien
Emile's people came directly to NL from France. There was a migration of Acadians and Scots to the Bay St. George around 1840 and on mostly from Inverness county, Margaree and Cheticamp area after they taxed the land grants in NS. The step dancers were Chiassions and they most likely were Acadiens. Some of the Acadiens were also Benoits.
Sorry for my comment, I thought Emile was acadian for sure. I'm a chiasson and we're all french acadians going back to 1660.
I wander who are the 2 people step dancing,? Great jobbbbbbbbbbbbbb
Dancers: GENEVIEVE ROUZES and CHARLES CHAISSON!!
Andrea beaton