Annotation:Cape Breton Favorite

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CAPE BRETON FAVORITE. Canadian, Jig (6/8 time). Canada, Cape Breton. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was recorded in the 1960's by Cape Breton fiddler Johnny Wilmot paired with "Leg of a Duck (The)." It is known to Prince Edward Island fiddlers as "Daisy's Jig" and has been printed under the title "Farmer's Jamboree."

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - fiddler Brenda Stubbert (b. 1959, Point Aconi, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia) [Cranford].

Printed sources : - Cranford (Brenda Stubbert's), 1994; No. 130, p. 45.

Recorded sources: - Johnny Wilmot: Another Side of Cape Breton." Gael-Linn Records, Máire O'Keeffe - "House Party (An Coisir)."


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