Annotation:Cotillon de Baie-Ste-Catherine

Back to Cotillon de Baie-Ste-Catherine

COTILLON DE BAIE-STE-CATHERINE. AKA - "Le Set," "Set de Harry Poitras (Le)." French-Canadian, Reel. E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BBC. An irregular tune in both parts. The tiny hamlet of Baie-Ste-Catherine (pop. 260) sits alongside the Saguenay River's estuary; across the Saguenay is Tadoussac, known as "the Cradle of New France" and the oldest settlement in North America outside of Florida. It was home to Harry Poitras, the source for the tune.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - fiddler Harry Poitras (b. 1890, Baie-Ste-Catherine), via dance ethnographer Simonne Voyer who collected both in Baie-Ste-Catherine in 1955 [Hart & Sandall].

Printed sources : - Hart & Sandall (Dance ce Soir), 2000; No. 73, p. 108.

Recorded sources: - Lisa Ornstein - "Danseries de la belle province" (1984).