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|f_annotation='''MIRAMICHI FIRE [3], THE.''' &nbsp; Canadian, Reel (whole or cut time). &nbsp;Canada; New Brunswick, Cape Breton. &nbsp;A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB.&nbsp;<p>The Miramichi Fire commemorates a catastrophe which occurred in northern New Brunswick in 1825. It is a widespread, older Acadian tune which could easily have been composed at the time of the fire.</p>[http://www.cranfordpub.com/recordings/MichaelAnthony.htm Michael Anthony MacLean]<p>learned as above one evening during the 1930s when two Acadian New Brunswick fishermen tied up to the Government Wharf at MacKay's Point, Victoria County, Cape Breton. One of them had a fiddle, an evening of entertainment ensued, and Michael learned the tune from them.</p><p>In recent years this reel has adopted a Cape Breton name, Willie D's Favourite from Margaree fiddler Cameron Chisholm who had learned it from the lilting of his father, Willie D. (brother of Angus Chisholm). Willie D. had worked in both New Brunswick and Quebec and likely picked the tune up in his travels. That setting is a little different and is found in</p>[http://www.cranfordpub.com/books/stubbert2nd.htm Brenda Stubbert: The 2nd Collection]
|f_annotation='''MIRAMICHI FIRE [3], THE.''' AKA and see "[[Willie D's Favourite]]."  Canadian, Reel (whole or cut time). &nbsp;Canada; New Brunswick, Cape Breton. &nbsp;A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. There are a number of settings<ref>Peter Corfield prints five related settings of the reel from Scottish, Old-time and Acadian sources. </ref> of this older tune that may date to the time of the 1825 conflagration in northern New Brunswick, or soon after (although this has not been determined). Cape Breton fiddler Michael Anthony MacLean learned the tune in the 1930's from two Acadian New Brunswick fisherman who had tied up to the Government Wharf at MacKay's Point, Victoria County, Cape Breton, according to Paul Cranford, who says: "One of them had a fiddle, an evening of entertainment ensued, and Michael learned the tune from them."
|f_printed_sources=Corfield ('''Tunes from New Brunswick'''), 2024; pp. 79-81 (five different but related versions).&nbsp;
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Cape Breton fiddler sometimes call the tune "[[Willie D's Favourite]]", after the habit of Margaree fiddler Cameron Chisholm who had learned it from the lilting of his father, Willie D. (brother of famed Cape Breton fiddler Angus Chisholm). Cranford notes that Willie D. had worked in both New Brunswick and Quebec and suggests that he picked the tune up in his travels.
|f_printed_sources=Corfield ('''Tunes from New Brunswick'''), 2024; pp. 79-81 (five related versions).&nbsp;
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MIRAMICHI FIRE [3], THE. AKA and see "Willie D's Favourite." Canadian, Reel (whole or cut time).  Canada; New Brunswick, Cape Breton.  A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. There are a number of settings[1] of this older tune that may date to the time of the 1825 conflagration in northern New Brunswick, or soon after (although this has not been determined). Cape Breton fiddler Michael Anthony MacLean learned the tune in the 1930's from two Acadian New Brunswick fisherman who had tied up to the Government Wharf at MacKay's Point, Victoria County, Cape Breton, according to Paul Cranford, who says: "One of them had a fiddle, an evening of entertainment ensued, and Michael learned the tune from them."

Cape Breton fiddler sometimes call the tune "Willie D's Favourite", after the habit of Margaree fiddler Cameron Chisholm who had learned it from the lilting of his father, Willie D. (brother of famed Cape Breton fiddler Angus Chisholm). Cranford notes that Willie D. had worked in both New Brunswick and Quebec and suggests that he picked the tune up in his travels.


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Printed sources : - Corfield (Tunes from New Brunswick), 2024; pp. 79-81 (five related versions). 






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  1. Peter Corfield prints five related settings of the reel from Scottish, Old-time and Acadian sources.
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