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PATTERSON’S GENERAL STORE. Canadian, Reel. Canada, Cape Breton. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by the late Cape Breton fiddler Jerry Holland (1955-2009), named for an Inverness County general store in Scotsdale, near where the Margaree River flows out of Lake Ainslie. It is run by Norman Patterson and wife Anita.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cranford (Jerry Holland: The Second Collection), 2000; No. 133, p. 50.

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