Annotation:Patins de Pauline (Les)

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PATINS DE PAULINE, LES (Pauline’s Skates). French-Canadian, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Québec singer and guitarist André Marchand, who told Susan Songer (Portland Collection) that it was in memory of the long skating excursions on Joliette’s Assumption River, “which he shared with a charming companion.” Fiddler Pascal Gemme (Genticorum) says the tune is popular in Montréal sessions.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Songer (Portland Collection), 1997; p. 158.

Recorded sources: Green Linnett SIF3042, La Bottine Souriante - “Chic & Swell” (1982).

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