Annotation:Riddrie

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RIDDRIE. Scottish (originally), Canadian; Strathspey. Canada, Cape Breton. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB’. Nigel Gatherer identifies Riddrie as an area of Glasgow near to "Alexandra Park" (the name of another tune in the Kerr collections).

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford].

Printed sources : - Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 74, p. 33. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 4), c. 1880’s; No. 28, p. 6.

Recorded sources: - Breton Books and Records BOC 1HO, Winston “Scotty” Fitzgerald - “Classic Cuts” (reissue of Celtic Records CX 17). Celestial Entertainment CECS001, Brenda Stubbert (Cape Breton) - “In Jig Time!” (1995).

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