Joseph Cormier

Fiddle participant Joseph Cormier was raised in Chéticamp (a French-speaking city in Cape Breton), but found on his device by hearing Scottish fiddlers in nearby cities, leading to Cormier’s original design. His music provides often been referred to as either Celtic or traditional folk, as evidenced by some of his single releases in the ’90s in the Rounder label — 1992’s Aged Time Wedding ceremony Reels and Various other Preferred Scottish Fiddle Music and Joseph Cormier and Close friends, 1998’s Informal Periods (which noticed Cormier teamed up with fellow Chéticamp musician Edmond Boudreau on electric guitar and bass and Eddie Irwin on piano), and 2001’s Dances Down House.