"The Ookpik Waltz"
(The Canadian Waltz, The Eskimo Waltz, (The) Ootpik Waltz, (The) Utpick Waltz)
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Waltz, Gmaj, ABA.
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History
According to Wikipedia;
According to the Canadian Encyclopedia, the word Ookpik is Inuktitut for "snowy" or "Arctic owl." It was also the name of the most popular of Inuit handicrafts in the form of a souvenier sealskin owl, which featured an appealling large head and big eyes (a la the Disney cartoon characters). It was created at the Fort Chimo Eskimo Co-operative in Québec in 1963, and quickly became a worldwide symbol for Canadian handicrafts. The cute fuzzy, stuffed Ookpik owl doll was already popular image in Canada by the time of the Centennial (1967), which propelled it to even more fame.
Despite the rumors of antiquity, the “Ookpik Waltz” was not dervived from a Native American source but is a composition of Mission, British Columbia, fiddler Frankie Rodgers, who has published it in a tunebook of his compositions. British Columbia fiddlers know the tunebook and the source well. It was also first recorded on his (c. 1960's) LP "Maple Sugar, Fiddle Favorites by Canada's Old Time Fiddle King Frankie Rodgers of the Rodgers Brothers Band" (Point P-250). Sheet music of "Ookpik Waltz" was published with a 1965 copyright to Rodgers.
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