Category: plant a cao

I’ve been thinking of the tune “Plant a Cao,” lately (sheet music down below). It was nominated for tune of the month over on Melodeon.net. It was voted down, but a fascination was still sparked. This is a scottish I first heard on the Musaique CD, by Ad Vielle Que Pourra. They play it at light speed, which suits me some of the time. My current favorite version is this one by Jean Luc Gueneau and Gilles Poutoux:

I heard the Gentiane version, featuring the great Jean Blanchard some years later. It has a gentler, more playful tone:

And here’s a solo accordion version by Jac Lavergne, from his Cadence d’Auvergne cassette tape.

And here is sheet music from Sylvain Piron’s set of scottishes on his tradfrance site.