Alfred Montmarquette (6 April 1871 - 24 May 1944) was a Canadian folksong composer and accordionist.
Montmarquette was born in New York on 6 April 1871, and taught himself the accordion from the age of twelve, and had mastered it while still an adolescent. [1] [2] Unable to earn a living as a professional musician, he worked as a mason. [3] [4] He moved to Montreal in the 1920s, and was over fifty years old when Conrad Gauthier's Veillées du bon vieux temps made him well known. [2]
Between 1928 and 1932, he recorded more than 110 pieces for Starr Records, and also recorded with Ovila Légaré, Eugène Daigneault and Mary Bolduc. [2]
He died in an insane asylum in Montréal on 24 May 1944. [2]