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Fait en Californie

by French Creek

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    Dated December 1997 and designed to accompany the CD, this 16 page book of simple notation from abc2win software matches the tracks of the recording, is unadorned and does not include chords. Arrangements by French Creek, transcription by Dorothy A. Hawkinson, notation by Andy Alexis.

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French dance music in gold rush California.
In the mountainous center of France there is a living tradition of music and dance, centuries old, based on the viélle à roue (hurdy gurdy), the violin and various forms of bagpipe (cornemuse). Later came the accordion. This music is particularly vibrant in Berry, the Auvergne and the area of the Languedoc. The haunting modal scales reveal the influence of the Moors in this region.
While this genre has not traveled extensively outside of its native soil, it has taken root in northern California like the grapevines of France, perhaps the French miners during the gold rush brought this music with them and now it has returned.

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released March 22, 1997

Dorothy Hawkinson, violin, ankle bell, tingsha; Penny Cloud, viélle à roue and concertina; G.F. Cloud, guitar. Produced by Chris Caswell & G.F. Cloud

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Off to the West Vancouver, Washington

Andrew Alexis, Charlotte Berta and Dorothy A Hawkinson have deep familial roots in the West, reaching over 100 years back in coastal SW Washington, to the 1850s in gold rush California and even as far as 1770s Alta California when it was still part of Mexico. Each has decades of experience playing traditional music of various genres.
An earlier recording by the group with Alan Fuller is also here.
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