Annotation:Anthony Drody's Tune

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ANTHONY DRODY'S TUNE. French-Canadian, Reel (cut time). Canada, Gaspé. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Anthony Drody's Tune" is from the repertory of fiddler Anthony Drody (1932-2019) of Douglastown, a historically Anglo-French community in the eastern end of the Gaspé Peninsula of Québec. Folklorist and researcher Glenn Patterson writes:

Like many others, Anthony left the Coast with his wife Connie Ingrouville (of Barachois) for work decades ago, eventually ending up in Old Bridge, New Jersey where they raised their family and he was an ironworker. Still, Anthony and Connie generally made the trip back to Gaspé in the summers. Anthony played an eclectic repertoire of tunes learned from many sources over the years: In addition to the tunes he kept up from his father and uncle Charlie, he learned from radio fiddlers like Don Messer while also keeping up many of the old tunes he learned from his father and other Gaspé players; I even heard Anthony play southern old-time tunes he picked up from friends in New Jersey. It was always a joy to be around him at Pembroke or Gaspé when one of the old Gaspé tunes would come back to him, sometimes after five decades of not having played or even heard it.

See also the tune named for Anthony's father, "Joe Drody's Jig."

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