ASHOKAN FARWELL, New verse video Tribute to a fiddler

[Jean Pierre]

TRIBUTE TO GARRIK TYAS, a fiddler from Ontario

I'm going to tell you a nice story:

7 or 8 years ago, I was looking on the internet for a fiddle player who could have done some backing vocals to the fiddle of a Bob Dylan cover I did with my daughter Cecile, and I found Garrick Tyas.

Garrick Tyas is a violin player who used to live in Belleville, a Canadian city in Ontario ...6626 km away from my home in Savoie, France.
He had been kind enough to make me counter-songs on the violin which gave a "gypsy" color to our cover version.
You can listen to it HERE (for those who haven't heard it yet)

https://songcrafters.org/forum/index.php?topic=22903

Yesterday was the anniversary of Garrick's death and quite by chance I discovered on the internet that he had played this tune (Ashokan Farewell) on the violin!

Also as a tribute to this departed friend I made a montage of his version (debut) and mine.

RIP Garrik


https://www.ebutuoy.com/watch?v=MQDVFjG4Aq0

[chapperz66]

Love the video.

RIP Garrick.

[Greeny]

This is beautiful, JP. The video is fantastic (and poignant), but the music is even better. It seems you can play anything! Such a lovely, tender tribute. He looked like a proper free spirit.

Wonderful.

[Ferryman_1957]

A lovely and fitting tribute JP. A lovely video as well, a lovely watch.

[The Gobi Desert Canoe Club]

A beautiful tribute. Always sad when a musician passes and even harder when they are a friend.     Willie

[Jean Pierre]

Reloaded the video

BUMP, in memoriam of my friend Garrick, a fiddler from Ontario