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X:1 T:Bull Run Picnic M:2/4 L:1/8 K:G d/B/|GG/B/ dg/f/|e/f/g/e/ dg/d/|f/d/A/B/ c/B/c/e/|d/B/G/A/ BB/A/| G/F/G/B/ dg/f/ |e/f/g/e/ dg/d/|f/d/A/B/ c/d/e/f/|g/a/g/f/ g:| |:g/a/|bb/g/ aa/f/|g/a/g/e/ d/B/d/g/|f/d/A/B/ c/B/c/e/|d/B/G/A/ Bg/a/| bb/g/ aa/f/|g/a/g/e/ d/B/d/g/|f/d/A/B/ c/d/e/f/|g/a/g/f/ g:||



BULL RUN PICNIC. AKA and see "Chateauguay Reel." American Reel (cut or 2/4 time). USA. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Similar to "Williamsburg Reel" published in Jarman's Old-Time Fiddlin' Tunes. Christeson evidently collected it as an untitled tune, the name supplied later by his friend Cy Kines (a native Virginian, which may account for his titling of the tune for the famous Civil War battle). However, it is in fact a close variant of Joseph Allard's French-Canadian "Chateauguay Reel", with the parts reversed. Canadian radio stations could be picked up in Missouri in the evening, and some Canadian fiddle tunes entered American Midwest repertory in this manner.


Additional notes



Printed sources : - R.P. Christeson (Old Time Fiddlers Repertory, vol. 1), 1973; p. 100.

Recorded sources : - University of Missouri Press, Cy Kines - "Old Time Fiddler's Repertory" (1976. Various artists).

See also listing at :
Hear Cy Kines' home recording at Slippery Hill [1]



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