SARAH MACARTHUR’S. AKA and see “Mrs. John Angus MacArthur's” (Bean Iain Aonghais Nic Artair). Canadian, Strathspey. Canada, Cape Breton. A Major/Mixolydian. AEae or Standard tunings (fiddle). AAB. Sarah was born Sarah Catherine Beaton, daughter of John Beaton, and married John Angus MacArthur at North East Mabou.
Additional notes
Source for notated version: - Mary MacDonald (learned from Sarah MacArthur), and Donald Angus Beaton and Kinnon Beaton (Mabou, Cape Breton) [Dunlay & Greenberg].
Printed sources : - Dunlay & Greenberg (Traditional Celtic Violin Music from Cape Breton), 1996; p. 132.
Recorded sources: -CEI 8001, Winnie Chafe - “Echoes” (1988). NXD-5447, Doug MacPhee - “Cape Breton Master of the Keyboard” (appears as “Curly Sandy Beaton’s Strathspey”). Rounder 7011, Kinnon and Donald Angus Beaton - “The Beaton’s of Mabou” (1978. Appears as “Mrs. John Angus Mac Arthur’s”). WRC1-5253, Brenda Stubbert - “Tamerack ‘er Down”.
See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [1]
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