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• Artist: Donna Hébert
• Date: 31 Dec 2008
• Time: 7:30pm
• City: Donna Hébert in Burlington VT
• Venue: First Night Burlington / Flynn Theater
• Address: 153 Main St. Burlington VT 05401
• Country: US
• Age restrictions: All Ages
• Notes: Beaudoin Legacy – VT Franco-American Heritage group. Chansons, fiddle tunes and dancing for New Year’s Eve!
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• Artist: Donna Hébert
• Date: 25 Feb 2009
• Time: 7:00am
• City: Donna Hébert in Melrose MA
• Venue: Folk Arts Center of New England – Donna leads a French Canadian jam session
• Country: US
• Admission: free
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• Artist: Donna Hébert
• Date: 18 Apr 2009
• Time: 2:00pm
• City: Donna Hébert in Bowdoin, ME
• Venue: Fiddle/guitar workshop at Pam Week’s
• Country: US
• Admission: $25
• Box office: 207.666.3709
• Notes: Fiddling Demystified/Louis Beaudoin fiddle workshop – Donna Hébert Fingerstyle and DADGAD guitar – alternate fingerings, chord voicings and groove rhythms – Max Cohen
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• Artist: Donna Hébert
• Date: 19 Apr 2009
• Time: 2:00pm
• City: Donna Hébert in Portland ME
• Venue: Acoustic Artisans / Jonathan Cooper – Fiddle/Guitar Workshop with Donna/Max
• Country: US
• Admission: $20
• Age restrictions: All Ages
• Box office: 207-893-1866
• Notes: Fiddling Demystified/Louis Beaudoin fiddle workshop – Donna Hébert Fingerstyle and DADGAD guitar – alternate fingerings, chord voicings and groove rhythms – Max Cohen
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• Artist: Donna Hébert
• Date: 13 Jun 2009
• Time: 2:00pm
• City: Donna Hébert in New Haven CT area
• Venue: Mickey Koth & Bill Fisher’s house
• Country: US
• Admission: $25
• Age restrictions: All Ages
• Box office: 413-658-4276
• Notes: Recording device recommended! Tunes and rhythms taught by ear with music handout at end of workshop.
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• Artist: Donna Hébert
• Date: 17 Aug 2009 - 21 Aug 2009
• Time: 9:00am
• City: Donna Hébert in Vooreheesville NY
• Venue: Old Songs Community Center
• Address: 37
• Country: US
• Admission: $475
• Notes: Fiddling Demystified’s French Accent Week with Pascal Gemme & Yann Falquet from Genticorum teaching fiddle, guitar and songs, dance teacher Marie-Soleil Pilette, Jeremiah McLane teaching accordion/piano and fiddle teachers Donna Hébert and Daniel Boucher.
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• Artist: Donna Hébert
• Date: 10 Sep 2009 - 13 Sep 2009
• Time: 3:00pm
• City: Donna Hébert in Calixa-Lavallée, Québec
• Venue: Chants de Vielles Festival
• Country: CA
• Age restrictions: All Ages
• Box office: 450-583-5631
• Notes: Geneviève Nadeau – info@chantsdevielles.com Donna and Max Cohen in workshops and concert at the festival performing material from their new “Grooviolon” CD.
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• Artist: Donna Hébert
• Date: 24 Oct 2009
• Time: 2:00pm
• City: Donna Hébert in Amherst MA
• Venue: French-Canadian fiddling workshop 2-5 pm @ Donna Hébert’s studio
• Country: US
• Admission: $45
• Age restrictions: All Ages
• Box office: 413-658-4276
• Notes: Donna Hébert combines her Fiddling Demystified for String Players method with an encyclopedic knowledge of French-Canadian and Franco-American fiddling. A student of Vermont fiddler Louis Beaudoin, Donna has taught 8 apprentices in Franco fiddling. She will demonstrate straight and crooked tunes and syncopated rhythm patterns. All music and style is taught by ear, with music handouts at end of workshop. Recording device recommended!
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• Artist: Donna Hébert
• Date: 9 Jan 2010
• Time: 2:30pm
• City: Donna Hébert in Pinellas Park FL
• Venue: Fiddle/guitar workshop with Donna Hébert & Max Cohen
• Country: US
• Admission: To come
• Age restrictions: All Ages
• Box office: To come
• Notes: Donna teaches Fiddling Demystified and Louis Beaudoin’s French-Canadian style and repertoire. Max teaches DADGAD guitar lead and accompaniment for Celtic and dance music.
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• Artist: Donna Hébert
• Date: 20 Feb 2010
• Time: 1:00pm
• City: Donna Hébert in Pawtucket RI
• Venue: Le Foyer – workshop with Community Music Works, potluck and family dance
• Country: US
• Admission: TBA
• Age restrictions: All Ages
• Notes: with Donna Hébert, Max Cohen, Daniel Boucher
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• Artist: Donna Hébert
• Date: 27 Mar 2010
• Time: 10:00am
• City: Donna Hébert in Montreal
• Venue: SPDTQ-EspaceTrad
• Address: 911, rue Jean-Talon Est, #010
• Venue phone: 514-273-0880
• Country: CA
• Age restrictions: All Ages
• Box office: 514-273-0880
• Notes: Fiddle music of Louis Beaudoin: style and repertoire workshop with Donna Hébert. Intermediate 10:30 am – noon Advanced 1:30-3pm
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• Artist: Donna Hébert & Max Cohen
• Date: 23 Jul 2010 - 25 Jul 2010
• Time: 10:00am
• City: Donna Hébert & Max Cohen in Parc Saint Jean Bosco, Saint-Charles Borromée, Quebec, Canada
• Venue: Festival Mémoires et Racines with Donna Hébert, Max Cohen, Daniel Boucher
• Country: CA
• Admission: $48-60 Canadian
• Age restrictions: All Ages
• Box office: 450 752-6798
• Notes: Franco-American fiddle music & songs – with Daniel Boucher
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• Artist: French-Canadian Music & Dance Camp with Donna Hébert, Pascal Gemme, Marc Maziade, Steve Normandin & Marie-Soleil Pilette
• Date: 16 Aug 2010 - 20 Aug 2010
• Time: 9:00am
• City: French-Canadian Music & Dance Camp with Donna Hébert, Pascal Gemme, Marc Maziade, Steve Normandin & Marie-Soleil Pilette in Voorheesville NY
• Venue: Old Songs Community Center
• Country: US
• Admission: call for details
• Age restrictions: All Ages
• Box office: 518-765-2815
• Notes: French-Canadian music, song and dancing with fiddlers & singers Pascal Gemme, Donna Hébert & Daniel Boucher, guitarist & singer Yann Falquet, dance caller and step-dance teacher Marie-Soleil Pilette, and more! Classes 9-4 Mon-Fri, evening jams/dances, Thursday night faculty concert.
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Louis Beaudoin, 1976 (Ann Meuer photo)

SING OUT! Magazine asked for a Teach-In article about Louis Beaudoin for the Winter 2008 issue. Since 2005, I’ve been making prescriptive transcriptions of of all the Louis Beaudoin audio samples I can find, with 40 tunes transcribed so far. Multiple listenings are necessary to glean all the goodies from these recordings; melodies, bowings, drones, syncopations and rhythmic variations just begin to scratch the surface. There’s something magic in his playing that can’t be quantified, that I can only describe as joy. No way to write that down. Just have to play the music and feel it yourself!

Here are links to the SING OUT! article, with transcriptions for fiddle. Each tune is sampled once through with Louis playing.

Both tunes are also recorded on the new Beaudoin Legacy CD.

• Louis Beaudoin Teach-in – PDF
• Blackberry Quadrille two page PDF sheet music
• Blackberry Quadrille – MP3 of Louis Beaudoin
• Les guenilles - PDF sheet music
• Les guenilles – MP3 of Louis Beaudoin

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