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DUDLEY STREET. Canadian, Jig (6/8 time). Canada, Cape Breton. E Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. Composed by Cape Breton fiddler and composer Dan R. MacDonald (1911-1976). The famous Dudley Street is in Roxbury, Boston, and is the name of a pub in which the likes of Nova Scotia fiddler Tom Doucet, 'down-east' musicians and others gathered to informally play. It was a focal point for the expatriate Maritime community.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cameron (Trip to Windsor: The Music of Dan R. MacDonald, vol. 2), 1994; p. 58.

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