Annotation:Camp Meeting on the Fourth of July

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 CAMP MEETING ON THE FOURTH OF JULY. Old-time, March. D Major. Standard or DDad (tuning). AB. James Bryan has said that the tune was originally played as a processional for evening services at camp meetings in Arkansas in the 19th century. Bryan's source was Tom Jackson, who learned it from Coleman Barwick, an old-time fiddler from Blountsville, Alabama. (Not to be confused with similarly-titled melodies "4th of July at the County Fair" or "At a Georgia Camp Meeting").  Source for notated version: Greg Canote (Seattle) [Silberberg].  Printed sources: Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 19.  Recorded sources: Martin Records CD, James Bryan & Carl Jones - "Two Pictures."

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