ST. ANNE'S REEL - BYU Mountain Strings

[@rocksandforestquiver959]

This song is still super well known in Atlantic Canada and parts of Quebec, definite classic

[@752brickie]

Great playing kids !!! I am in my 70's so you will always be kids to me !!

[@tonyschram1260]

Great old French Canadian tune played beautifully, thanks👍

[@FredQuann-vs1qh]

Excellent in every respect.

[@grenierguy4652]

Good rendtion of a french canadian reel composed by Joseph Allard. The reel would be named after a town in New-Brunswick: Ste-Anne. Thank you!

[@davidfalvo3298]

One of my favorite tunes and you play it so well. Wonderful arrangement, too. Your performance is amazing. Thanks.

[@patrickrwhite8354]

Fantastic Group so magnificently played So toe-tapping and enjoyable all around thank you. My Granddad and I used to play this when he was alive and I was a boy on the Accordion he was on the fiddle. Bravo!!!! He was a Left-handed Bow guy for the fiddle. Both of us self taught. But I so loved your rendition.

[@rcampkin1945]

absolutely brilliant and joyful version, Just makes you smile.

[@garyballard723]

That is the best arrangement of St. Anne's Reel on the web to date. IMHO!

[@karendotson230]

Love it! I play this song on the mountain dulcimer. One of my favorites.

[@matthewweaver5610]

One of my favorite pieces. Great job. There are a group of us from Appalachian State University play this at the Apple Barn dances.

[@daveyjoweaver6282]

Lovely! Kind Thanks! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania

[@charliebrown5611]

Nice. I wished we had more exposure to this during the 50s and 60s

[@celticfiddles6988]

That was fantastic. I can't believe I've not come across you all before. Such a lovely arrangement. Thank you for that

[@charlesmontgomery7002]

This has to be my favorite version of this tune

[@MichaelKrisa]

Brilliant banjo playing and you make it look effortless!

[@lancethruster4675]

Never heard this before till tonight. It's beautiful as is your rendition.

[@juliarich-mccarty3190]

Loved it-especially the way you built it up- played my bodhran along with you- Thanks

[@patrickrwhite8354]

Every instrument in this arrange me was beautifully mixed not one out of place. GREAT JOB!

[@hayounikhalid]

Oh my God, this is simply splendid. Thanks and God bless you all.

[@julielowe7462]

Lovely arrangement, builds beautifully, I could listen to this all night, and what a pleasant way to spend an evening

[@opuslife]

Wonderful - Thank You!!! Helps a novice fiddler tremendously to have such a terrific performance to play along to and learn with. Regards, Bob W Bristol, RI (Love Utah)

[@richardstrahin6142]

Oh to be in that living room with this great group of performers!☺♥

[@AndyBadalamenti]

Beautiful! Thank you so much for this. It was inspiring!

[@Dolfiey]

I love the smile of that pretty girl playing the drum thingy :D

[@j.r.r.tolkee7000]

Delightful. There were a couple of moments at which I would have kicked everyone in sooner, but once everyone hit their stride it became an excellent performance.

[@patrickkelly9982]

An absolute credit to BYU. Great to see kids being exposed to something of value instead of some of the junk taught elsewhere. A great arrangement particularly the evocative keyboard break in the middle. Hats off to all concerned, From Australia.

[@patrickkelly9982]

I've played fiddle for over fifty years and there are many great tunes around. To me, St Anne's is the most smile inducing, foot-tapping-est and at times tear dropping tune of them all. This arrangement caps them all.

[@David-rh5bo]

Very talented young people. 😊

[@tobiasoellers146]

What better to start the year with good Music ❤

[@MrKeithtoad]

Sweet, you clever and beautiful young folks!

[@hectormartinezusa]

I’m learning this on cello and play this recording as backup, so fun. Thank you.

[@johnduffy6546]

Nicely done! Pleasantly preformed

[@waroutbraedod]

Brilliant!

[@patrickrwhite8354]

I absolutely love this group with all my heart. Every Musician is so immaculate. I hope you are still playing. I love this tune I played it with my grandfather as he played fiddle I played my accordion now I use my tyros 3. I also started my channel again and so much to learn. Enjoy this the second time keep going. Big Hearts to all.💘💘💘💘💘💘

[@johnlang1933]

Wow! …just…WOW!!!

[@Pictish222]

Fantastic musicians. Great arrangement and nice to hear the clawhammer banjo lead it.

[@TheRayfield77]

Great job. Looks like it would be fun to jam with. That's a very happy drummer :)

[@linda_guitar8869]

Great arrangement of this tune! 💖

[@Backslasherton]

Absolutely stellar song.

[@karlvilhelmerlandsson4730]

Beutiful!!

[@ΕυθυμηςΣμοϊλης]

You are amazing.... bravo from Greece

[@JudsonBylerMusic]

This is really good!

[@juliusiregar]

lovely... greetings from bali 😃

[@jeremyrhoads6899]

that was fun!

[@ji2898]

great vid!

[@TheBeeryBoater]

I must say, I have recently discovered you channel and I absolutely love your version of this. I often play it while editing, here at my home in the Nottingham in England.

[@simbee3634]

WOw! lovely arrangement......

[@Nigriff]

Beautiful... God Bless

[@raywaddell6349]

Great sound and version of this song

[@mitchkroener]

I love this version and I know many. I always feel like BYU groups have an interesting approach to Celtic-based music-it’s like anglicizing by a different route? There’s a great BYU a cappella version of Danny Boy that has a similar approach. It feels less gritty and folksy than an Irish or Appalachian version but the orchestration is more precise.

[@martincochrane2243]

Brilliant musicans fiddle player is top notch

[@LisaWarrenMusic]

Love this:)

[@ronnieblanchet4072]

Soli De Gloria!

[@gregblackmusic]

So good!❤

[@NguyenNguyen-bt1jm]

Amazing

[@mcglynn3000]

Y’all are good

[@jeanneannvalfre9581]

Very nice …..☮️🎶🔛🌎

[@stevefarable]

Lovely.

[@daviddavenport6896]

CLAWHAMMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@paradoxy3992]

So great to see a university ensemble doing Americana: jazz, classical, and folk are all in trouble without the patronage of the one place where music can still be taken seriously. Without schools of music, it's all at risk.

[@michhedeberg]

folk's not going anywhere. at least bluegrass is in safe hands with young players

[@2mcummings]

Universities are exactly where musical forms go to die. The less of this music being played in music schools, the better. They'll do what they did to Jazz...killed it.

[@ignert1]

Great arrangement but the information at the end is incorrect. This reel originated from French Canadian roots, not Ireland.

[@fluffkiller]

The first RECORDING of this tune is from Montreal. It’s still an Irish Reel. As in, that’s it’s genre. Like “sweet home Chicago” is a blues.

[@ricksawa5995]

I think the original comment by @ignert1 is correct. The tune is Irish-like for sure but not Irish. I think that the original citation from the band requires a historically accurate qualifier.

[@brianhaughey7238]

Love it - very well played ❤❤ All the best from a little island …called Ireland ❤

[@brucecollins641]

@@fluffkiller fiddle reel music is indigenous to scotland..not ireland. there are 100s of scottish fiddle reel tunes in ireland.....this is a canadian reel ,many scots settlers took the style to canada and america.

[@rickduvernay1288]

Just wondering…seemed like with this arrangement, they changed key a couple times. It was wonderful. Am I right?

[@MrKeithtoad]

I didn't catch that. They changed up the tempo and tastefully brought in all the instruments gradually.

[@patrickkelly9982]

@@MrKeithtoad Agree. No key changes. Didn't need them. Arrangement stood on its own. Loved the keyboard break in the middle. Emphasised the rolling rhythm of the original and the immaculate chord structure. One of the finest melodies in the 'folk music' canon. Play it slow or play it fast, it's great and proven to be popular from Canada all the way through hillbilly music, bluegrass, square dances, Texas swing and Irish music. One of the finest melodies technically, in my view.

[@whateversmurfette]

no the key remained. repetition was scaled by instrument, but so precise it met even to the same perceived tempo in the end.

[@R3tr0humppa]

You just wanna start tap dancing, even if you got no idea how. 😀

[@cliffsandifer3877]

this sounds good with a D didgeridoo in the bottom....( I ve done it), Angeline the Baker also.

[@DennisHowerton-q7m]

Hey! Where's the chicken? One of the girls played a chicken in the Keep On The Sunny Side video. Where's the chicken?

[@Scratchmando]

Very nice. This is actually a Canadian tune, not Irish.

[@danieldesharnais3440]

correct me if i’m wrong, I thought “The ballad of St. anne’s reel” was written by a canadian fella but St.annes reel was originally an irish composition

[@brucecollins641]

@@danieldesharnais3440 both styles originate i scotland. st annes reel..canadian.

[@Kaydheartscows6791]

You guys should call yourself the soak'n string band 🤘

[@MrMarcoAlvarado]

Guys, why don't you go on with that?

[@kennethgarcia7842]

I wish Ellie Geslison was in this... still good tho!

[@markrademaker5875]

1 John 4:10,11

[@wojciechmakarewicz2536]

Good, but it would be better full acoustic with a piano, a glockenspiel or something instead of this KORG.

[@galivanting]

i like the part where this was only possible through cult trauma

[@allanmcdougall3214]

Very nice... but not the St Anne's Reel I know, What does BYU mean? This is very smooth, you've removed the passion.

[@480vmotor]

Are musicians supposed to smile so much?

[@balintveto2708]

who else is here because of Tally Ho?

[@douglasandrie9314]

Don Messer is much better!

[@unclechris4252]

The Bodhran player is SUPER pretty!