Evit Gabriel reel

There are 10 recordings of this tune.

Evit Gabriel has been added to 16 tune sets.

Evit Gabriel has been added to 81 tunebooks.

Three settings

X: 1
T: Evit Gabriel
R: reel

X: 2
T: Evit Gabriel
R: reel

X: 3
T: Evit Gabriel
R: reel

One comment

Evit Gabriel (“For Gabriel” in Breton) was written by Daniel Thonon, a musician and composer who was born in Brussels in 1949 and emigrated to Canada in 1963, where he still resides. He plays a variety of instruments, primarily diatonic accordion and hurdy-gurdy. He’s also an instrument builder, composer, etc.

You can see an image of the sheet music for Evit Gabriel here:

http://www.securenet.net/members/bfournie/images/Part_evit_WEB.jpg

More information on Daniel Thonon at his website:

http://www.danielthonon.com/

Our session plays this tune at a fairly slow, hypnotic pace but it gets played at the local ceilis at a more typical reel pace as well.

It seems to get paired with the Bus Stop Reel and/or Dinky’s Reel. Around here we play it with St. Anne’s, but I’m not sure where that combo originated.

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