Annotation:Gillis' Favorite

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 GILLIS' FAVOURITE. Canadain, Reel. Canada, Cape Breton. D Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Various Cape Breton fiddlers have reversed the parts.  Source for notated version: Angus Chisholm (Cape Breton) [Dunlay & Greenberg].  Printed sources: Dunlay & Greenberg (Traditional Celtic Violin Music of Cape Breton), 1996; p. 77.  Recorded sources: Decca 14017, Alex Gillis and Alcide Aucoin/The Inverness Serenaders (c. 1936).  See also listing at: Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index

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