Interview with and musical performance by Varise Connor and Eric Benoit
Varise Connor (Violin), Eric Benoit (Guitar)
0:00 - La Valse à Elise Mallet. Learned tune from his father; 'Goodnight Waltz'
4:18 - 'Polka à Varise'; Lionel Leleux talking in the background
-La Mazurka d'Eugene Michon
-Danced between polka and waltz, but not sure because that was before his time/he was too young to remember
8:32 - Hobson; 'Drunkard's Waltz'. "Shorty" LeBlanc's theme song
12:53 - 'Down South'; 'Westphalia Waltz'
17:03 - 'Kentucky'; 'La Caroline'; 'Lake Arthur Shuffle'
-Varise wants Lionel to come play some, but Barry wants Varise to fill up one tape before Lionel comes to play
21:51 - 'Jimmy Bryant's Waltz'; 'Aguillard Two-Step'
24:59 - 'Le rêve du Diable'; discussion of the Aguillards. They were brothers?/old-time fiddlers
-They're dead now; 'Valse à Abe'. Aguillards were from Eunice
27:43 - 'Andy's Waltz'. Varise and Lionel just learned the tunes, they didn't make a note of what the names were
-'Lake Arthur Stomp'; l'histoire du violon de Varise. Got it from his first cousin, Adlar Connor
-He sold it to Varise and Varise's father about 50 years ago. Lionel fixed it up for Varise. He wouldn't trade it for any other fiddle
-Varise's family of musicians - His father, uncle, and cousins played music and got Varise interested
-It took a few years before a musician got to playing real good
-Varise began playing at 12 years old. Took him about 5 years? before he did well?
