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Free online fiddling anthology . . .

The Muse of Joy and Sorrow - why we play the fiddle. . .

"a beautiful and inspiring site - a rarity on the net!" Jay Ungar
The Muse has 23 stories, 14 poems, 17 quotes and 36 images about or related to fiddling, including stories by Thomas Hardy and Anton Chekov and poetry of Edgar Lee Masters and Carl Sandburg, as well as other writers . . .

Magazine articles . . .

Ecstasy at the Contradance (Country Dance & Song Society Newsletter, 1998

The Reel Deal: 12 Questions Violinists ask about Fiddling. (Strings Magazine, May/June 2002)

My Life & Times in Contradancing (Old Time Herald, Fall 1999)

Contradance Fiddling (Fiddler Magazine Spring 1996)

The Joy of Music - Playing in The Great Groove Dance Band (SING OUT! Magazine Fall 1999)

Why I play Franco-American fiddle music (Le Forum, Fall 97)

Tunebooks and instructional media for sale . . .

NEW BOOK/CD! FIDDLING DEMYSTIFIED for string players - crack fiddling's code and learn to improvise rhythmically.

Learning Old Time Fiddle Appalachian Style with Alan Jabbour - DVD of 10 tunes with bowing insets and transcriptions, plus an interview.

The Grumbling Old Woman - edited and published (1981, 1995) 60-pg contradance fiddle tune anthology with instructional cassette and original contra choreography

Coming in late 2005: Fiddling with a French Accent DVD - French-Canadian and Franco-American favorite tunes - instruction in English!

Along the River edited/published by Susan Conger - Hébert's original tunes are included in this anthology of fiddle tunes by Connecticut River Valley musicians.

The Contemporary Violinist - written/edited by Julie Lyonn Lieberman - Hébert's section on Franco-American fiddling features Louis Beaudoin's "Fireside Reel".

Solo, band, anthology recordings . . .

Mademoiselle, voulez-vous danser? (1999) - Franco-American Music from the New England Borderlands / Smithsonian/Folkways - chosen a Top Ten Folk CD of 1999 by National Public Radio. The first track is Donna's original song "The Shuttle" and her signature fiddle tune, "The Growling Old Man and Grumbling Old Woman".

Big Boned Beauty: Donna Hébert (1999) - Natalie MacMaster meets Nat King Cole! Original songs run the gamut of women's experiences, courtship to motherhood and beyond - and Donna's fiddling is featured on more than half the tracks. 7 songs / 6 tune sets, including three waltzes: Valse des jouets, Valse pour Carmel Bégin, and coproducer Pete Sutherland's Sunday River Waltz.

Festival Mémoires et Racines: 1998 Québec Festival CD featuring CHANTERELLE, Liza Constable singing "The Mill"

Soirée chez nous: CHANTERELLE (1996) - CD with guests Pete Sutherland, André Marchand, Lisa Ornstein, Nat Hewitt, Jeremiah McLane, Denis Frechette. First track features Donna, Pete and Lisa on a tribute to their friend, Louis Beaudoin

French in America: CHANTERELLE (1994) CD for schools features "The Shuttle" and "French in America," and "Lullaby," a bilingual original with words by Hébert and Josée Vachon and melody by Russell Barenberg.

Rude Awakening: Rude Girls / Flying Fish 424 (1987) - 1988 INDIE AWARD for Best String Band. with Lyn Hardy, Debbie Saperstone, Selma Kaplan and Molly Mason.

Kitchen Junket: Yankee Ingenuity - Fretless/Philo 200a/b (1977) - One of the first recordings of the contradance renaissance, this double-length cassette (originally an LP) has one side with 45 minutes of music, the other with the same music and calls to New England dances from master caller/choreographer Tony Parkes. With Peter Barnes, Henry Chapin, Jack O'Connor, Tony Parkes.