Jean Carignan, CM (December 7, 1916 â February 16, 1988) was a Canadian fiddler from Quebec. Carignan was born in LĂ©vis, Quebec on December 7, 1916, later moving to Sherbrooke and then Trois-RiviĂšres with his family; the family moved to Montreal when Carignan was ten years old.[1] As a child, Carignan studied with noted Quebec fiddler Joseph Allard, as well as learning the music of the great Irish fiddlers Michael Coleman and James Morrison and the Scottish fiddler James ScoâŠ
