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Pascal Gemme, of Genticorum

Performing Traditional Quebecois Music on the Fiddle

From Megan Romer, About.com

Pascal Gemme is one of the foremost fiddlers in the Quebecois tradition, a complicated style of fiddling with roots in the Celtic music of Brittany.
Pascal Gemme, of Quebecois Traditional Group Genticorum, Plays the Fiddle at Festival International

Pascal Gemme, of Quebecois Traditional Group Genticorum, Plays the Fiddle at Festival International, 2009

(c) Megan Romer, 2009
Pascal Gemme, the fiddle player in the Quebecois band Genticorum, is known not only for his vibrant, expressive fiddling, but also for his encyclopedic memory for (and obsessive collecting of) traditional fiddle tunes of Quebec. Quebecois music has its roots in the traditional Celtic music of Northern France, and it's traditional for fiddlers to sit down while they play, and tap along a rhythm with their feet. This foot-tapping is called podorythmie, and the fiddler taps through every single song.
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