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MANGISTER VOE. AKA - "Mangaster Voe." Shetland, March (2/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. Composed by the late Shetland fiddler, composer, collector and teacher Tom Anderson. A voe in Shetland is the name for a sea inlet, and Mangister Voe is located on the west side of the north Shetland Mainland. As a march it is sometimes used as a vehicle for the ceilidh dance called Gay Gordons.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 350.

Recorded sources:

See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]

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-'''MANGISTER VOE.''' Shetland, Air or March (2/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. Composed by the late Shetland fiddler, composer, collector and teacher Tom Anderson. A ''voe'' in Shetland is the name for a sea inlet, and Mangister Voe is located on the west side of the north Shetland Mainland. As a march it is sometimes used as a vehicle for the ceilidh dance called Gay Gordons.
+'''MANGISTER VOE.''' AKA - "Mangaster Voe." Shetland, March (2/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. Composed by the late Shetland fiddler, composer, collector and teacher Tom Anderson. A ''voe'' in Shetland is the name for a sea inlet, and Mangister Voe is located on the west side of the north Shetland Mainland. As a march it is sometimes used as a vehicle for the ceilidh dance called Gay Gordons.
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