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	Cape Breton fiddling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cape Breton Island's fiddle music was brought to North America by Scottish immigrants during the Highland Clearances.
		Cape Breton fiddle music is strongly influenced by the sounds of Gaelic music, especially Puirt a Beul (Mouth Music).
		The types of tunes commonly associated with Cape Breton fiddling are jigs, reels, marches, strathspeys, clogs (hornpipes), and slow airs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cape_Breton_fiddle_music (582 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Cape Breton fiddling
		Although fiddling has changed considerably since this time in Scotland, it is widely held that the tradition has been better preserved in Cape Breton.
		Scottish composers popular in Cape Breton include: Neil Gow, Nathaniel Gow, and Scott Skinner Some well known Cape Breton composers include: Winston (Scotty) Fitzgerald, Angus Chisolm, Angus Beaton, Kinnon Beaton, and Jerry Holland.
		As a tribute to to traditional music, in 2005 the new construction of a tourism center and the worlds largest fiddle and bow finished construction on the Sydney waterfront.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Cape_Breton_fiddling (416 words)

	UNH Professor Documents Music of Cape Breton
		It is a unique area because the music is getting stronger and stronger, against the conventional wisdom in many places that distinctive local musics are often endangered or slipping away.
		Music is the most public symbol of Cape Breton.
		The music on this CD was recorded in context, at dances and concerts along the Ceilidh Trail, on the western side of Cape Breton Island.
	www.unh.edu /news/news_releases/2002/march/em_20020326feintuch.html (676 words)

	The Celtic Connection - Entertainment News \| Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The fiddle and piano reign supreme in Cape Breton and the Beaton family of Mabou continue play the dancing feet off their family, friends and fans as they pound out the vibrant rhythms of reels, strathspeys, jigs and other favourites from this tradition-rich corner of Canada.
		Since the early 1800s, when Scots began arriving in significant numbers on the island’s shore, Cape Bretoners have nearly always given their fiddle music a kind of pride of place, maintaining it, supporting it, dancing to it, and loving it.
		The liner notes of Cape Breton Fiddle and Piano Music is rich with history of the area and the Beaton family.
	www.celtic-connection.com /entertainment/ent2004_05_musicrev.html (851 words)

	The Amazing Music of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
		Cape Breton music is compelling dance music, and as such it is; and dance the Cape Bretoners do, with their low-to-the-floor, intricate step-dancing, a style that disappeared from Scotland decades ago.
		Music is the glue that holds the Cape Bretoners together as communities, and is central to their identities as Cape Bretoners.
		Cape Breton is represented by Jerry Holland, Buddy MacMaster and Natalie MacMaster on fiddle accompanied by Hilda Chiasson and Mary Jessie MacDonald on piano.
	www.sfcelticmusic.com /Capebret/capebcds.htm (2514 words)

	Traditional Fiddle Music of Cape Breton, Vols 1 & 2
		Cape Breton Island [CBI] is a lovely place, so I'm told, which is situated just northeast of Nova Scotia, jutting into the North Atlantic Ocean, the same water that laps the shores of the ancestral home of most Cape Breton citizens, Scotland.
		Although an interest in fiddle music is on the rise, it has often assumed the form of a revivalist movement whose ties to its originating communities have become quite tenuous.
		After mustering out, he returned full time to fiddling, though he retains a number of pipe tunes in his repertoire, which is not unusual for Cape Breton fiddlers.
	www.mustrad.org.uk /reviews/tfmcb.htm (4885 words)

	Cape Breton Fiddle article p. 1 -- Portland America -- Ashley MacIsaac, Natalie MacMaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Highlanders who remained in Scotland suffered serious suppression of their culture because of politics and religion, while the Cape Bretoners were free to protect and develop their Scottish heritage.
		Cape Breton today is a treasure trove of musical events, dances, and summer festivals, plus the new Celtic Colours International Festival held in mid-October, which draw not only many visitors, but also native Cape Bretoners of all ages.
		Cape Breton’s vital musical culture is reflected in a growing output of recordings, a rich repository of primarily Scottish music played on the fiddle.
	www.portlandamerica.com /page14.html (572 words)

	:: Welcome to Cape Breton Live Radio
		Square dancers in a Cape Breton community are growing sore from tourists stepping on their toes, so they're setting up lessons for the newcomers...
		Cape Breton Live is a joint venture of husband and wife team Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy and Cheryl Smith.
		Cape Breton Live recognizes the support of the Province of Nova Scotia through the Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage.
	www.capebretonlive.com (844 words)

	Along the Ceilidh Trail
		He can't remember when he first heard the distinctive fiddle music of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, but he took his first trip to the island in 1996, and the music has been a personal passion and a focus of his academic work ever since that visit.
		Because of geographic isolation, the fiddle music of Cape Breton, and more specifically of Inverness County, is remarkably similar to the music played by the Scottish immigrants who settled there in the early 1800s.
		Feintuch believes that "the music represents for many a kind of cultural continuity." Cape Breton is not an easy place to make a living.
	www.unh.edu /users/unh/admin/alumni/magazine/w03/ceilidh_trail.html (670 words)

	Cape Breton fiddler finds common ground with the Chieftains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The double-disc set, to be released in the United States on Rounder Records this spring, features a concert performance on one disc and a square dance from her native Cape Breton on the other.
		Fellow fiddle player Darol Anger, whom MacMaster met at O'Connor's fiddle camp (and who performs at the Boulder Theater Feb. 6 with Mike Marshall), is slated to produce her next studio album, and they plan to recruit some of Nashville's finest to perform on it.
		Along with Cape Breton fiddle music, another staple of MacMaster's performances remains her step dancing, which she does while playing the fiddle.
	www.bouldernews.com /entertainment/music/18fmac.html (624 words)

	Mary Jane Lamond: Làn Dùil - PopMatters Music Review
		In terms of the overall musical tone of the album, it wouldn't be far off to describe Lamond as a Gaelic Sarah Mclachlan: a purveyor of stirring, smart, soothing music that's a pleasure to kick back and listen to.
		By singing in Gaelic, not only is she spreading the stories of Cape Breton to a wider audience, she's also preserving these stories, making sure that they aren't lost in the onslaught of Kid Rock and Kid Koala records that have permeated the brains of Maritime youth.
		This is one of the irresolvable antinomies of world music: as Western audiences are unlikely to understand the lyrical content of the songs (except by reading liner notes), the point of access to music not in English tends to be through the music and the emotional feeling that it conveys.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/l/lamondmaryjane-lan.shtml (647 words)

	Mike Daley - essay - Music, Race, Ethnicity and Nationhood in Canada
		The fragmented character of Canadian musical culture is somewhat abetted by the government’s official policy on multiculturalism (1971), which promotes and financially supports the preservation of the ethnocultural practices of newcomers.
		The musical repertories featured on each channel are nearly mutually exclusive, and the difference is wholly constituted in the sung languages of the artists.
		Music is sometimes used to aid in the constitution of nationhood in Canada, especially in localized contexts.
	www.mikedaley.net /essay_musicraceethinicity.htm (991 words)

	Compilations of Cape Breton Fiddle Music
		Many of the collections listed on the Cape Breton page feature great fiddling and are definitely worth checking out.
		There are 16 tracks from 16 of Cape Breton's best musicians, all fiddle music except one song from Men of the Deep.
		Also on the CD are fine examples of fiddling by Cameron Chisholm, Paul Cranford, Howie MacDonald, Liz Doherty, the new group Beòlach, and the Cape Breton Fiddlers' Association, as well as a great piano set from the legendary Maybelle Chisholm.
	www.sfcelticmusic.com /Capebret/fiddle_compilations.htm (330 words)

	Amazon.com: capebretonfiddlemusicNOTCALM: Music: Ashley Macisaac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Cape Breton Fiddle Music NOTCALM is Howie's 9th album and Ashley's 7th.
		Two fiddles (Ashley and Howie MacDonald), piano, and drums, and you've got it: all the raw energy of "Hi, How Are You Today?" without the studio effects, overlays, bagpipes, and electric guitars.
		Hearing music recorded in a studio is one thing, but hearing it in a live setting such as this CD is another.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005IBWD/unofficialrankin (868 words)

	Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp - Artists 2004
		Sandy MacIntyre, Cape Breton Fiddle - Sandy was born in Cape Breton and was raised in a typically musical Cape Breton family.
		Then there is the fiddling, the breathtaking medleys spiked with those rarely performed beauties that Dave regularly extracts from his personal and well-thumbed archives: a world-class library of tapes, records, reel to reels and sheet music.
		She is in high demand as a fiddling instructor and has taught at the Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddling School, The Swannanoa Gathering and the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes.
	www.rmfiddle.com /artists_2004.htm (2978 words)

	OakStoneClassics.co.uk - Blog - Folk - Accoustic Roots - Altan
		At this time Donegal music was little known outside of the county.
		Donegal fiddle music has a drive in it, somewhat like Cape Breton music, due to the push given on both the upstroke and the downstoke.
		A winter school of music is now held in Donegal each year in honour of Frankie Kennedy.
	www.oakstoneclassics.co.uk /Blog/tabid/671/EntryID/247/Default.aspx (543 words)

	The Heart of Cape Breton CD Review - Canadian Celtic Music
		In the summer of 2000, Burt Feintuch and Pete Reiniger, spent a week in Cape Breton recording several musicians at dances, arenas, and concerts in Inverness County for a Smithsonian Folkways Recording.
		It used to be in Cape Breton that there would be callers for the dancers but nowadays it's usually just the musicians on the stage and the dancers on the floor doing the sets that are engrained in their feet.
		Over 70 minutes of live music, this CD is a brief, accurate look at what you'd hear if you spent a summer on the west coast of Cape Breton.
	members.shaw.ca /kimberleyw/canadacelticmusic/cdreviews/heartofcbfiddlecdreview.html (885 words)

	Maine Folklife Center
		Rooted in old Scottish tradition, the music is increasingly moving to center stage in the contemporary Celtic revival, as seen in the popularity of Cape Breton fiddlers Natalie MacMaster and Ashley MacIsaac.
		Just as Highway 61 is integral to blues music in America, Route 19 is the backbone of Gaelic music and culture in Cape Breton.
		The sound of the island is alive in the exciting performances on this cd, recorded live at dances and concerts in Cape Breton during the summer of 2000.
	www.umaine.edu /folklife/newssp02_fiddle_music.htm (602 words)

	Celtic Colours :: Artist boigraphies and photos
		The most notable achievement of the film was that it shook Cape Bretoners out of their complacency, and it made them aware of that, quite possibly, the Cape Breton Fiddle was facing extinction.
		Because of the efforts of this determined group, the first Festival of Cape Breton Fiddling was held in Glendale in July 1973.
		Cape Breton fiddle music is alive and flourishing both on the Island and throughout the world and the Cape Breton Fiddlers' Association is proud to have played a significant role in this resurgence.
	www.celtic-colours.com /queries/artists.php?function=bio&artist_id=446 (408 words)

	The Cape Breton Connection Track List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Born and raised in a part of Cape Breton known for its richness in the Irish as well as the Highland idiom, Brenda Stubbert of Point Aconi recalls accompanying her father Robert, uncle Lauchie and Winston "Scotty" Fitzgerald on the piano before the age of seven.
		Although his family and musical roots are scattered in the Glendale and Creignish areas of Inverness county, Howie was born and still remains in Coxheath, Cape Breton.
		Born in Big Ridge (Cape Breton County) in 1971, Tracy was influenced by various stepdancers such as Father Eugene Morris, Betty Matheson and her aunt Freda Young before the age of ten, and soon after studied piano with George MacInnis, among others.
	www.atlanticartists.com /cbc/tracklist.html (2388 words)

	FAME Review: Joe MacLean - Old Time Scottish Fiddle Music From Cape Breton Island
		The time was right, the family of MacLean, who died in 1996, were in favor, and Old Time Scottish Fiddle Music from Cape Breton Island has now been issued.
		Strathspeys, marches, reels, jigs: the primary purpose of the music is dance.
		Originally played on solo fiddle, sometimes on a pair of fiddles, Cape Breton melodies require a strong sense of rhythm and lift in the playing.
	www.acousticmusic.com /fame/p00786.htm (591 words)

	Howie MacDonald - Canadian Celtic Music Artist Spotlight - October 2002
		I was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and my mother and father both grew up in musical households and going to square dances, ceilidhs, etc. My mother also speaks Gaelic which she used to communicate to friends, relatives growing up...not so much now.
		However they did and still do take their music quite seriously and hold their opinions mostly to themselves as do a lot of Cape Bretoners.
		I did several characters in one particular skit I called "Is This Cape Breton or What" which was a radio show guy with guests, which I also played.
	members.shaw.ca /kimberleyw/canadacelticmusic/howiemacdonald (1606 words)

	various artists, More Bridges to Cross: Cape Breton's Best Fiddle Music
		If you are new to the music, this is a great introduction to these artists before you pick up their other CDs.
		The Barra MacNeils and Slainte Mhath's talent is a reflection of the music being passed from one generation to the next.
		Morgan was raised in a musical family in Kenloch, Nova Scotia, where he heard many of the great fiddlers from the region.
	www.rambles.net /va_morecbbridges.html (680 words)

	The Heart of Cape Breton: Fiddle Music Recorded Live Along the Ceilidh Trail
		The Ceilidh Trail is also known as Route 19, along the west coast of Cape Breton in Inverness County.
		In the summer of 2000, Burt Feintuch and Pete Reiniger spent a week in Cape Breton recording musicians at dances, arenas and concerts in Inverness County for a Smithsonian Folkways Recording.
		It used to be in Cape Breton that there would be callers for the dancers but nowadays it's usually just the musicians on the stage and the dancers on the floor doing the sets that are ingrained in their feet.
	www.rambles.net /va_cbheart02.html (773 words)

	Buddy MacMaster: Cape Breton Tradition
		Farewell to the Glen was published in 1957 in The Scottish Music Maker, a handwritten compilation of the music J. Scott Skinner assembled by J. Murdoch Henderson.
		Dow are two Dan R. reels which are often played together, both because of a Cape Breton Symphony recording, and their side-by-side placement in The Heather Hill Collection (The Music of Dan R. MacDonald Vol.1)
		According to the notes in The Fiddle Music of Scotland (James, Hunter, 1979) Williamson Blyth (1821-1897) wrote these two tunes to celebrate the 1890 opening of the magnificent cantilever bridge just north of Edinburgh.
	www.cranfordpub.com /recordings/BuddyTradition.htm (1656 words)

	Cape Cod Fiddlers: fiddle music performers; CD recordings.
		Cape Cod Fiddlers: fiddle music performers; CD recordings.
		Widely known for their energetic fiddle performances and two recordings on CD, the Cape Cod Fiddlers draw their repertoire from the Irish, Scottish, Shetland Isles, Scandinavian, Cape Breton, French Canadian, and American fiddle traditions.
		Providing music for concerts, festivals, dances, weddings, and parties, this fiddle group has become a tradition and an integral part of the community on Cape Cod.
	capecodfiddlers.com (84 words)

	CDSS: American Dance Catalog
		Music, instructions, and teaching notes make these Appalachian and Midwest dances, play parties, songs and tunes accessible and fun to upper elementary and middle school kids and their teachers.
		Fiddle, hardingfele, bass, and bouzouki make wonderful lilting music for 15 hambos (a Swedish couple dance in 3/4 rhythm), two waltzes, a snoa, and a pair of schottisches.
		KGB expands their musical horizons from a basis in playing for contras, bringing us music "let loose from contradance restrictions to be enjoyed off the dance floor".
	www.cdss.org /sales/american_dance.html (9580 words)

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