"Over the Cabot Trail"
Jig, Amaj, AABB.
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Playing or Personal Notes:
No personal notes.
History
Canadian, Jig. Canada, Cape Breton.
- A Major.
- Standard tuning (fiddle).
- AABB.
Composed by Mabou Coal Mines, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, blacksmith and fiddler Donald Angus Beaton (1912-1981), an exemplar of the Mabou Coal Mines style of fiddling. His son is the Cape Breton fiddler Kinnon Beaton. Andrea Beaton, Kinnon's daughter is also a fiddler.
Printed sources:
- Shears (Gathering of the Clans Collection, vol. 1), 1986; p. 75.
Recorded sources:
- Rounder 7011, "The Beatons of Mabou: Scottish Violin Music from Cape Breton" (1978).
- Rounder 7038, Willie Kennedy & Morgan MacQuarrie - "Traditional Fiddle Music of Cape Breton, vol. 2: The Rover's Return" (2002. Various artists).
Hear a clip of the Beatons of Mabou playing the tune.
Hear/see a clip of Kinnon, Andrea and Elizabeth Beaton playing the tune on youtube.com.
On the Web:
| the Session | Fiddler's Companion | Cape Breton Fiddler |
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