Here is a tune of my own making. Patrick Ouellet was a dear friend from Fort Kent, Maine who lived on a homestead of his own building close to Perley Brook with his beloved wife, Julia Bayly. Pat was a quiet, gentle, kind, unprepossessing guy who, when not working in the Napa Auto Parts store, could be found at home, stewarding the woods and lands around his property, adding outbuildings, and happily restoring great old rusty pieces of farm machinery which would have otherwise made their way to the scrapheap. He was suddenly and very prematurely cut down by brain cancer in 2008. His last wish was to spend his final days at home, where he passed away peacefully. Patrick, his beautiful homestead, and the comfort that many of us find associated with some special place, either real or imagined, were much on my mind when I made this tune and played it to him over the phone shortly before his death.

Valse pour Patrick; Patrick at Perley Brook (fiddle and piano, mp3)[wpdm_file id=383]

Valse pour Patrick; Patrick at Perley Brook (sheet music, mp30[wpdm_file id=384]