Isidore Soucy

Canadian fiddler and composer, born in Ste-Blandine, near Rimouski, September 7, 1899, and died in Montreal December 7, 1963. In his teens the best fiddler in his hometown, Isidore Soucy went to Montreal in 1924. He worked for the city until 1926, when he first recorded for Starr. Soucy started his radio career in Montreal on CKAC in the 1920s and performed in Conrad Gauthier's "Veillées Du Bon Vieux Temps" at the Monument National. Beginning in the 1930s Soucy was heard on many radio shows as the leader or a member of several popular groups, among them les Vive-la-joie (the 'Revellers,' a duo with the accordionist Donat Lafleur that recorded for Starr and Bluebird), [a1981168] and Le Trio Soucy.