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CARIBOU REEL. AKA - "Reel du Caribou (1)." Canadian, Reel. E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Woodridge, Manitoba, Métis fiddler biography:Andy DeJarlis (1914-1975). The version in Songer's 1997 book, current among Portland, Oregon, contra dance musicians, is slightly distanced from the original (which appears in the Appendix). The tune was also recorded by Métis fiddler John Arcand.


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Kevin Carr (California) [Songer].

Printed sources : - DeJarlis (Canadian fiddle tunes from the Red River Valley vol. 1), 1958. Olivier Demers (1000 airs du Québec et de l'Amérique francophone), 2020; p. 251. Songer (Portland Collection), 1997; p. 46.

Recorded sources : - BMI Canada Records, "Andy de Jarlis' Canadian Fiddle Tunes from the Red River Valley" (1958).




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