Annotation:Fancy Hornpipe

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 FANCY HORNPIPE. Cape Breton, Hornpipe. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The "Fancy Hornpipe" is the tune for the dance Mic Mac Rotery. The rotary was a traffic circle near a Mic Mac Indian village. See also the related "Craiglug Reel", by Scottish fiddler Peter Milne.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources:  Recorded sources: Rounder 7004, Joe Cormier - "The Dances Down Home" (1977).  See also listing at: Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index

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