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SAILOR DON. Canadian, Jig (6/8 time). Canada, Cape Breton. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by miner, fiddler and composer Dougie MacDonald (1968-2009). Legendary Cape Breton fiddler-composer Dan Hughie MacEachern was MacDonald's neighbor, mentor and close family friend when he was a child in the Queensville, Inverness County, area of the island.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Cranford (Jerry Holland: The Second Collection), 2000; No. 233, p. 86.

Recorded sources: -

See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings [1]



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