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Re: More clips of "Aly Bain meets the Cajuns" on Youtube!

The programme was made by Pelicula Films, a company based in Glasgow. They made a series of films in the US with Ali Bain called Down Home which included filming with Bill Monroe, Mike Seeger, Quebecois musicians and the Cape Breton fiddlers to name but a few. These were the best traditional music programmes ever made, with complete performances of tunes shown.

I have very poor VHS copies of the programmes from the original transmissions, but I have never heard of any being sold commercially in the UK. Maybe there was a US release. If so I would guess searching under Pelicula would offer the best option.

Re: Re: More clips of "Aly Bain meets the Cajuns" on Youtube!

It's on DVD now (entitled "Cajun Country", 2003, Shanachie Entertainment Corp.)

Christian

Re: More clips of "Aly Bain meets the Cajuns" on Youtube!

Thanks for sharing!

Harry LaFleur was the first cajun player I heard. He was on WRNO shortwave from New Orleans on a program hosted by Mark Costello. Mark then ran a ran a series of interviews conducted by Pete Bergeron from the early to mid 1980's. Mike Doucet, Ward Lormand, Don Montoucette (sp?). .... those were the days.

Peace,
Griff

Re: Re: More clips of "Aly Bain meets the Cajuns" on Youtube!

Harry has a beautiful fiddle and some unique songs. I dont know if he has made some of them, or they are just old songs no one else does.



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