Annotation:Fairy Lake Waltz

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 FAIRY LAKE WALTZ. Canadian, Waltz. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Ontario fiddler Ward Allen, who won contest after contest in the 1950's and who carved out a career for himself as a radio fiddler. There are two Fairy Lakes in Ontario; on in Huntsville in the Muskoka region, and another, a man-made lake maintained by a dam on the East Holland River in Newmarket.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources:  Recorded sources: GRT Records 9230-1031, "The Best of Ward Allen" (1973). Sparton Records SP 213, "Ward Allen Presents Maple Leaf Hoedown, vol. 3."

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