Annotation:Blue Mountain Hornpipe

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BLUE MOUNTAIN HORNPIPE. Canadian, Reel. Canada; Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Messer): AA'BB' (Perlman). Credited to Cape Breton musician Cecil MacEachern, though popularized in the mid-20th century by the great Maritime fiddler Don Messer, who was born in New Brunswick. MacEachern was a member of Messer's Islanders band (who broadcast from Charlottetown, PEI) for some time. The tune is named for a mountain in Cape Breton.


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Dennis Pitre (b. 1941, St. Felix, West Prince County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman].

Printed sources : - Messer (Don Messer's Barn Dance Breakdowns: Violin and Piano), 1954; No. 13. Messer (Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; No. 118, p. 73. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 103.

Recorded sources : - Apex 26388-B (78 rpm) / 9-26388 (45 rpm), Don Messer and His Islanders "Blue Mountain Hornpipe" (1953)

See also listing at :
Hear Don Messer play this tune at [1]

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