Annotation:Wake Up to Cape Breton

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WAKE UP TO CAPE BRETON. Canadian, Canada, Cape Breton. E Mixolydian (‘A’ part) & E Dorian (‘B’ part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BB. The tune was composed in 1992 by Cape Breton fiddler Brenda Stubbert for a local radio show of the same name, and has gathered some currency in modern Cape Breton sessions.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cranford (Jerry Holland: The Second Collection), 2000; No. 150, p. 57. Songer (Portland Collection, vol. 2), 2005; p. 217.

Recorded sources: Jerry Holland – “Fiddler’s Choice” (1998). Brenda Stubbert - "Some Tasty Tunes" (1999).

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Alan Snyder’s Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [2]
Hear the tune played by Brenda Stubbert [3]
See/hear versions on youtube.com [4]
See standard notation at Cranford Publications site [5]

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