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GILLIAN HEAD. Canadian, Reel. Canada, Cape Breton. E Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. Composed by the late Cape Breton fiddler and composer Jerry Holland (1955-2009). It is named after one of his fiddle students, the great granddaughter of Tom Marsh (Lingan, Cape Breton County), whom Holland heard play as a young boy (Cranford).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cranford (Jerry Holland: The Second Collection), 2000; No. 146, p. 55.

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