Annotation:Pointe-au-Pic

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POINTE-AU-PIC. AKA - "Reel de Pointe-au-Pic." French-Canadian, Reel. A Minor ('A' part) & C Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Phillips): AA'BB' (Carlin). The tune was popularized by a 1938 recording by Quebec fiddler Joseph Bouchard (1905-1979), and it is sometimes credited to him. However, "Pointe-au-Pic" is based on Scottish accordion player Dick Pamby's 1916 recording of a scottische entitled "Four Little Blackberries."

Pointe-au-Pic is a small town on the St. Lawrence River near Charlevoix, northeast of Quebec City. The tune is sometimes played in the key of G Major. Phillips' parts are reversed from Carlin's.

Source for notated version: Ruthie Dornfeld (Seattle) [Phillips]; Kathleen Towers [Songer & Curley].

Printed sources: Carlin (Master Collection), 1984; No. 63, p. 45. Guest (One Hundred Fiddle Tunes), 1980; p. 17. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2), 1995; p. 103. Songer (Portland Collection vol. 2), 2005; p. 160.

Recorded sources: Flying Fish FF70572, Frank Ferrel – “Yankee Dreams: Wicked Good Fiddling from New England” (1991). Varrick VR-038, Yankee Ingenuity - "Heatin' up the Hall" (1989).

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [2]
Eric Lortie's Identitairs Quebecois [3]
Hear a 78 RPM recording of "Four Little Blackberries" on youtube.com [4]

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