Anastasia DesRoches
Kith Folk
Anastasia DesRoches grew up in an Acadian family and started off as a dancer which led to fiddling which she took up at age 15. She started off playing the Scottish style, taking lessons from Kim Vincent and after taking studying music theory at a university she started transcribing tunes "for fun". Lucky for us, she decided to start collecting tunes from PEI fiddlers which let to a collection of field recordings now available at the Acadian museum in Miscouche as well as a tune book of her transcriptions of compositions from Acadian fiddlers. The book is called "Les Faiseux de Tounes - the Tunesmiths" and is available through the Fédération Culturelle de l'Île du Prince Edouard". It includes 300 compositions as well as biographies of the fiddlers and stories. The book as well as other transcriptions is available through her website at: http://anastasiadesroches.com
Anastasia has been highly active in fiddling on Prince Edward Island and she was one of the fiddlers, along with Louise Arsenault on Eddy Arsenault's recording
Anastasia has been highly active in fiddling on Prince Edward Island and she was one of the fiddlers, along with Louise Arsenault on Eddy Arsenault's famous recording Party Acadien