Cape Breton & Prince Edward Island Fiddle and 50 similar items

Multiple level songs in this book- some are easy, some intermediate, some more advanced! This book is heavier than most books I sell, so the shipping rate is a bit higher. The island of Cape Breton its close neighbor, Prince Edward Island in eastern Canada are home to two of the oldest, strongest, and most vibrant fiddling traditions in North America. Cape Breton gave rise to a professional Celtic-based fiddling scene to rival anything coming out of Scotland Ireland. Prince Edward Island’s traditional fiddlers developed lively, idiosyncratic styles every bit as musically compelling as anything you’ll hear on archival recordings of iconic American old-time fiddlers from the Appalachians. This book features 136 tunes from these two heavier tdistinct but related fiddling traditions, collected by the author directly from master fiddlers, and arranged note-for-note for clawhammer banjo with as much flavor and nuance as possible. These settings of reels, hornpipes, jigs, marches, strathspeys, airs, and other fiddle tunes are all eminently playable and fully benefit from the author’s half-century of experience playing banjo, arranging for banjo, writing banjo instruction books, and researching fiddle-music traditions. Here’s what you’ll find in this volume. 136 fiddle tunes arranged for clawhammer banjo in clear tablature Over 40 musical examples exercises Instruction on basic and advanced techniques Fingering diagrams detailed fingering suggestions A systematic approach to playing up-the-neck A thorough treatment of playing triplets, grace notes, and other characteristic ornaments in clawhammer Guides on how to approach playing various kinds of fiddle tunes A framework for understanding the modes encountered in fiddle music Historical notes on the tunes and musical traditions Biographical information on source fiddlers 169 audio illustrations available online Note: Most audio illustrations for the tunes in this book are drawn directly from the author’s CDs, Devil in the Kitchen, Frails Frolics, Island Boy, and Northern Banjo. Songs are: Angus Campbell Archie Menzies Banks Hornpipe, The Bear River Jig Bee’s Wing Hornpipe, The Belfast Hornpipe, The Belfast Jig Big John McNeil Bonaparte Crossing the Alps Bonniest Lass in A’ the World, The Bonny Lass of Fisherrow, The Bonny Lea Rig, The Brae Reel, The Braes of Auchtertyre, The Brenda Stubbert’s Reel Caber Feidh Cape Breton Wedding Reel, The Captain Campbell Carleton County Breakdown Carnie’s Canter Chaisson Reel, The Cheticamp Reel, The Chorus Jig Come Under My Plaidie Compliments to Buddy MacMaster Cutting Ferns Darlin’ Don’t You Meddle Me Delphine’s Reel Democratic Rage, The Devil in the Kitchen Dillon Brown Dinkie’s Reel Don’t Be Teasing Dr Keith, Aberdeen Dragger’s Reel, The Drunken Piper, The Dublin Porter Duke of Gordon’s Birthday, The Durang’s Hornpipe East Neuk of Bear River, The Emil Gaudet’s Reel Farmer’s Daughter, The Farmer’s Reel, The Fay’s Hornpipe Fermoy Lasses Fig For a Kiss Fisher’s Hornpipe (F Setting) Fred Wilson’s Hornpipe Glencoe March Green Meadow Reel Haggis, The Hector’s Fancy Hector’s New Dance Hall High Level Hornpipe, The Homeward Bound Honeymoon, The Inverness Jig Irishman’s Heart to the Ladies Iron Man, The Island Boy Jack Webster’s Reel Jackson’s Jig Jenny Dang the Weaver Jerome’s Farewell to Gibraltar Jerry Holland’s Jig Joe Kearney’s Reel Joe MacInnis’ March Kenmure’s on Awa’, Willie Killiecrankie Koehler’s Hornpipe Lad O’beirne’s Reel Lasses of Glenaladale, The Levantine’s Barrel Light Airy Little Donald in the Pigpen Little Jack’s Reel Londonderry Hornpipe Lord Gordon Lord MacDonald’s Reel MacDonald’s March “Reel” MacKinnon’s Rant Marchioness of Tullibardine, The Marie à Pierre Marquis of Huntly, The Meeting of Waters, The Miller o’ Drone, The Miller’s Reel Miramichi Fire, The Miss Barker’s Hornpipe Miss Georgina Campbell Miss Gordon Miss Lyall Strathspey Miss Maxwell Mr. Murray Munlochy Bridge Munster Lass, The North Side of the Grampians, The Northside Tune Orange Blue, The Ottawa Valley Reel Paddy on the Turnpike Pigeon on the Gatepost Plains of Boyle, The Poppy Leaf, The Pride of the Ball Prince Edward Island Wedding Reel Princess Reel River Bend Jig Robert Cormack, Aberdeen Robert Stubbert Rock Valley Jig Rose in the Garden, The Rose of Tennessee, The Rothiemurchus Rant, The Royal Circus Jig Shandon Bells Shores of Lough Gowna, The Silver Gold Sleepy Maggie Souris Breakwater Southern Melody St Anne’s Reel (Original Version) St Anne’s Reel (Prince County Version) St Kilda Wedding Stack of Barley Stella’s Trip to Kamloops Stool of Repentance, The Teviot Bridge Trip to Windsor West Point Jig When I Go Out the Door Where the North River Flows Whiskey Jig Wilfred’s Fiddle You Married My Daughter, Yet