Annotation:Reel de la tuque bleue
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REEL DE (LA) TUQUE BLEU. AKA and see "Blue Cap Reel," "Showshoer (The)," “Tuque Bleue.” French-Canadian, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Carlin): AA'BB' (Begin, Cuillerier). A variant of Francis O'Neill's "Blue Garters (The)." According to Anne Lederman (entry on “Fiddling”, Encylcopedia of Music in Canada, 1992), Montreal fiddler Joseph Allard’s (1865-1947) 1930 version of this tune became popular in English-speaking Canada as “Snowshoe Reel/Snowshoer's Reel.” Quebec fiddler Pascal Gemme remarks in his blog entry on the tune, the reel "is the only tune in F that's left in the general repertoire of [Québécois] square tunes." See also note for “annotation:Tuque Bleue.”
Source for notated version: fiddler Dawson Girdwood (Perth, Ottawa Valley, Ontario) [Bégin].
Printed sources: Bégin (Fiddle Music in the Ottawa Valley: Dawson Girdwood), 1985; No. 6, p. 20. Carlin (Master Collection), 1984; No. 70, p. 49. Cuillerier (Joseph Allard), 1992; p. 16. Songer (Portland Collection, vol. 2), 2005; p. 210.
Recorded sources: Philo 2022, Louis Beaudoin - "Beaudoin Family" (1976). Victor 263674-a (78 RPM), Joseph Allard (1930).
See also listings at:
Alan Snyder’s Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]
Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]
Hear Joseph Allard's 1930 recording at the Virtual Gramophone [3] and at youtube.com [4]
See Pascal Gemme's blog entry and standard notation transcription [5]