Here it is the first day of fall as we wait to see who loses the space junk lottery. Listening to the radio this morning, we were advised not to worry, the space junk was going to fall into the ocean somewhere off the coast of Chile. The odds of getting smashed by a chunk of space debris are apparently very low indeed.
To help get our collective minds away from space debris, let’s listen to some fiddle music. Here’s a fantastic performance my brother Salvelinas flipped over to me. It’s Jean Carignan playing The Devil’s Dream. I think I could listen to this one 100 times in a row and never get tired of it.
M. Carignan was a Quebecois fiddler. He was born in 1916, and passed in 1988. In 1974 he was made a Member of the Order of Canada as “the greatest fiddler in North America”. Yet, if I poll the first 20 people I see today, I suspect few if any of them are familiar with his name. Something is way wrong with that. Let’s celebrate this great Canadian musician!
27th Street 
Phenomenal fiddling – thanks for sharing! I know this tune as “The De’il Amang The Tailors” (The Devil Among The Tailors) and it is a favourite of Scottish fiddlers who, likewise, use it to show off. It’s a proper fiddle tune, too – just doesn’t seem to work on any other instrument. Just like The Mason’s Apron only really works on a flute.
Chicago talk radio “jokes” about the space junk..one lady called in saying a piece hit the hood of her car!!
STAGG
I admit to not knowing who this was. But I admire your seamless segue regardless.
Mr Carignan is playing Devil’s Dream a tune Marianne can play as well …. but not that fast.