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LADY ERSKINE. Scottish, Reel. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Lady Erskine" was composed by biography:James Walker (1771-1840) of Dysart, Fife, a professional musician and music teacher, who published his first collection in 1793-4. Walker dedicated his second collection to Lady St Clair Erskine of Sinclair, the spouse of Sir James St Clair-Erskine (Erskine), 2nd Earl of Rosslyn (1762-1837), to whom he had dedicated his first collection. Lady Erskine was born Harriet Bouverie (1762-1837), daughter of Hon. Edward Bouverie, MP, and Harriot Spencer.

The melody appears as "Lady Eshkin's reell" in the music manuscript collection of Spithope, Northumberland, musician John Robson [1], dated February, 1874.

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Kenny Chaisson (b. 1947, Bear River, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island; now resident of Rollo Bay) [Perlman].

Printed sources : - Cranford (Jerry Holland: The Second Collection), 2000; No. 44, p. 18. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1895; p. 44. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 104.

Recorded sources : - Jerry Holland - "Lively Steps" (1988).

See also listing at :
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [2]

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