Annotation:Mom's Jig
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MOM'S JIG. Canadian, Jig. Canada; Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBC (Cranford/Holland): AABBCCAABB (Perlman). Composed by fiddler Jerry Holland (Inverness, Cape Breton).
Source for notated version: Louise Arsenault (b. 1956, Mont Carmel, West Prince County, Prince Edward Island; now resident of Wellington) [Perlman].
Printed sources: Cranford (Jerry Holland's Collection), 1995; No. 208, p. 60. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 140.
Recorded sources: BOOT Records, Jerry Holland - "Master Cape Breton Fiddler" (1982). Shanachie SH-78010, Solas - "Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers" (1997). WMT002, Wendy MacIsaac - "That's What You Get" (1997?).
See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]