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MISS JESSIE SMITH. AKA - "Jessie Smith." Scottish (originally), Canadian; Strathspey. Canada, Cape Breton. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune appears in Joseph Lowe’s mid-19th century collection. The tune is a Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, standard among fiddlers, and is commonly heard in Scottish sessions as well. Lowe (1797-1847), from Marykirk, was a musician and dancing master, the son of fiddler-composer John Lowe ("Rachel Rae").

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Lowe (Lowe’s Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Jig), 1844; p.

Recorded sources: CAT-WMR004, Wendy MacIssac - “The ‘Reel’ Thing” (1994).

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-'''MISS JESSIE SMITH.''' Scottish, Strathspey. The tune appears in Joseph Lowe’s mid-19th century collection. The tune is a Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, standard among fiddlers, and is commonly heard in Scottish sessions as well. Lowe (1797-1847), from Marykirk, was a musician and dancing master, the son of fiddler-composer John Lowe ("[[Rachel Rae]]").
+'''MISS JESSIE SMITH.''' AKA - "Jessie Smith." Scottish (originally), Canadian; Strathspey. Canada, Cape Breton. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune appears in Joseph Lowe’s mid-19th century collection. The tune is a Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, standard among fiddlers, and is commonly heard in Scottish sessions as well. Lowe (1797-1847), from Marykirk, was a musician and dancing master, the son of fiddler-composer John Lowe ("[[Rachel Rae]]").
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