Les Coteaux Jumbie Le' Me 'Lone

Date recorded: May 3, 1962
Contributor(s): Performer: Rose of Sharon Singers; Performer: Philip, David; Performer: Edwards, Levi; Performer: Davis, Ridley; Performer: Albert, Aaron; Recordist: Lomax, Alan

Subject(s):

Genre: dance tune, reel

Culture: Caribbean, Trinidad

Instruments: cutter drum, fiddle, roller drum, steel drum, tambourine

Language: Trinidadian Creole French

Location: Toco, Sangre Grande, Trinidad and Tobago

Physical form: Reel to Reel

Tape number: T1068

Track Number: 13

Archive ID: T1068R13

Note: Music and singing that accompanies a reel-dance: a performance tradition derived from Scotland and used as a means for ancestral veneration and contact. This performance features one of several possible instrumental configurations and includes (male) vocal adlib.

Transcript:
Belongs to: Toco I 5/62

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