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'''SLEEPING GIANT TWO-STEP.''' Canadian, Two-Step (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed in 1961 by Manitoba fiddler [[biography:Andy DeJarlis]] (1914-1975), a Métis fiddler who composed some 200 melodies. The melody appears in his Andy De Jarlis' Canadian Fiddle Tunes From the Red River Valley, Book 2 and is named after the Sleeping Giant peninsula, north of Thunder Bay, Ontario—which has the appearance of a sleeping giant.   
 
'''SLEEPING GIANT TWO-STEP.''' Canadian, Two-Step (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed in 1961 by Manitoba fiddler [[biography:Andy DeJarlis]] (1914-1975), a Métis fiddler who composed some 200 melodies. The melody appears in his '''Andy De Jarlis' Canadian Fiddle Tunes From the Red River Valley, Book 2''' and is named after the Sleeping Giant formation, north of Thunder Bay, Ontario, which has the appearance of a sleeping giant.  Sleeping Giant is also the name of a state park that covers much of the Sibley Peninsula, which projects into Lake Superior from the north shore, separating Thunder Bay to the west and Black Bay to the east.
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<font color=red>''Recorded sources'': </font> <font color=teal> -Sunshine Records SSBLP-427, Marcel Meilleur ‎– "Andy DeJarlis' Fiddle Tunes" (1977).
<font color=red>''Recorded sources'': </font> <font color=teal> -Apex AL1620, Don Messer and His Islanders - "Goin' To The Barn Dance Tonight." Sunshine Records SSBLP-427, Marcel Meilleur ‎– "Andy DeJarlis' Fiddle Tunes" (1977).
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SLEEPING GIANT TWO-STEP. Canadian, Two-Step (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed in 1961 by Manitoba fiddler biography:Andy DeJarlis (1914-1975), a Métis fiddler who composed some 200 melodies. The melody appears in his Andy De Jarlis' Canadian Fiddle Tunes From the Red River Valley, Book 2 and is named after the Sleeping Giant formation, north of Thunder Bay, Ontario, which has the appearance of a sleeping giant. Sleeping Giant is also the name of a state park that covers much of the Sibley Peninsula, which projects into Lake Superior from the north shore, separating Thunder Bay to the west and Black Bay to the east.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Glenn Berry [Silberberg].

Printed sources : - Andy DeJarlis (Andy De Jarlis' Canadian fiddle tunes from the Red River Vally, vol. 2), 1961; pp. 4-5. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 146.

Recorded sources: -Apex AL1620, Don Messer and His Islanders - "Goin' To The Barn Dance Tonight." Sunshine Records SSBLP-427, Marcel Meilleur ‎– "Andy DeJarlis' Fiddle Tunes" (1977).

See also listing at:
Hear Andy DeJarlis's 1980 recording at youtube.com [1]



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