Annotation:Reel de I'île Bizard
X:1 T:Reel de I'île Bizard T:Bizard Island Reel S:Joseph Allard (1873-1947, Montreal, Que.) M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig D:Victor 263871A, Joseph Allard (1932) F:http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/m2/f7/13096.mp3 Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:D A|dcd AFA|dfb a2f|{a}gfg ece|dfd AFA| dcd AFA|dfb a2f| {a}gfg Ace|d2d d2:| |:g|b2b bag|faa agf|{a}gfg Ace|ba^g a2a| gbb bag|faa agf|{a}gfg Ace|d2d d2:|
REEL DE I'ÎLE BIZARD (Bizard Island Reel). AKA and see "Doc Boyd's Jig," "Old Jubiter," "Reel du forgeron (2)," "Republican Set (The)." French-Canadian, Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Reel de I'île Bizard", named for an island in the St. Lawrence River northwest of the island of Montreal, is fiddler Joseph Allard's (1873-1947) version of "Republican Set (The)," found in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883), and Ira Ford's "Old Jubiter," records Allard researcher Jean Duval[1]. Duval also notes that the tune was recorded by The Cornhuskers as "Doc Boyd's Jig," a mid-20th century Canadian group that included fiddler Jean Carignan, a pupil of Allard's[2]. Allard himself re-recorded the tune six years later under the title "Reel du forgeron (2)" (Blacksmith's Reel).