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REEL HELENA (Reel Héléna). AKA - "Mrs. Napoleon Rooney's Tune." AKA and see "Belledune Quickstep," "Reel Wynda." French-Canadian, Reel (cut time). G Major (Demers): D Major (Songer). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'AA'B (Demers): AABB (Songer). Fiddler Eugène Demers recorded "Reel Helena" in Montreal in 1932. A close version of the tune was published in J.A. Boucher's rare collection Le Répertoire du Violoneux[1] (1933, No. 95, p. 47), albeit under the title "Reel Wynda." Jean Duval notes that the melody was later popularized by the Quebec group Les montagnards laurentiens. Radio and TV fiddler Don Messer recorded it in the 1940's as "Belledune Quickstep." The tune was in the repertory of the Drody family, originally from Douglastown, eastern Gaspé, Québec, who called it "Mrs. Napoleon Rooney's Tune," after the neighbor woman from whom they learned it.

Additional notes

Printed sources : - Susan Songer with Clyde Curley (Portland Collection vol. 3), 2015; p. 90 (parts reversed from Demers).

Recorded sources : - Starr 15758-A (78 RPM),Eugène Demers (1932).

See also listing at :
Hear Eugène Demers' 1932 recording at the Virtual Gramophone [2]
Hear Pati Kusturok playing Don Messer's version of he tune, "Belledune Quickstep" [3]
Hear/see the Drody family playing the tune at Pembroke, 2011, at youtube.com [4]

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 |f_see_also_listing=Hear Eugène Demers' 1932 recording at the Virtual Gramophone [https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/virtual-gramophone/Pages/Item.aspx?idNumber=1007638460]<br>
 Hear Pati Kusturok playing Don Messer's version of he tune, "Belledune Quickstep" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66dq6NOcw-0]<br>
+Hear/see the Drody family playing the tune at Pembroke, 2011, at youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yKf8FGqqC8]<br>
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