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TRIP TO MABOU RIDGE. Canadian, Pipe March (2/4 time). Canada, Nova Scotia. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. Composed in 1938 by influential Cape Breton fiddler and composer Dan Hughie MacEachern (1913-1996), born in Queensville, Nova Scotia. He began fiddling at an early age, with help from his older brothers John Willie and Alex but he did not record commercially in his lifetime. He composed one of his most famous compositions, "Trip to Mabou Ridge," after coming home from a dance in the old schoolhouse at Mabou Ridge.


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Printed sources : - Shears (Gathering of the Clans Collection, vol. 1), 1986; p. 27.

Recorded sources : - Buddy MacMaster – “Judique Flyer.” Rounder CD 7006, Theresa and Marie MacLellan – “A Trip to Mabou Ridge” (1979). Rounder CD 7037, (various artists) – “Traditional Fiddle Music of Cape Breton, Vol. 1: Mabou Coal Mines.”




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