REEL DE MONTEBELLO. French-Canadian, Reel (cut time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Composed in 1998 by Quebec fiddler Richard Forest, originally from the Lanaudiere region. The reel has become part of the core repertoire of American contra dance musicians.
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Christine Fortin (Domino), 1999; p. 6. Songer & Curley (The Portland Collection vol. 2), 2005; p. 137.
Recorded sources : - Great Meadow Music GMM 2003, “Rodney Miller’s Airdance” (2000). Sarah Bauhan - "Lathrop's Waltz" (2007). Great Meadow Music, Jacques, Forest, Brunet, Larouch - "Domino" (1998).