Annotation:Barrhead

Find traditional instrumental music

Back to Barrhead


X:0 T: No Score C: The Traditional Tune Archive M: K: x



BARRHEAD. Canadian, Jig (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Cape Breton fiddler-composer Dan R. MacDonald. Barrhead is a community in Scotland southwest of Glasgow. MacDonald was stationed in Scotland in World War II when he worked for the Canadian Forestry Service.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Cameron (Trip to Windsor: The Music of Dan R. MacDonald, vol. 2), 1994; p. 42

Recorded sources: -



Back to Barrhead