Annotation:Father Francis Cameron
Tune properties and standard notation
FATHER FRANCIS CAMERON. Canadian, Reel. Canada; Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The composition has been credited to Nova Scotia musician John Allen Cameron, and (by Perlman & Alasdair Fraser) to Cape Breton fiddler John Campbell.
Source for notated version: Hughie MacPhee (b. 1924, Elmira, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman].
Printed sources: Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 88.
Recorded sources: Culburnie Records CUL102c, Alasdair Fraser & Jody Stecher - "The Driven Bow" (1988). Green Linnet SIF 1075, Eileen Ivers - "John Whelan & Eileen Ivers: Fresh Takes" (1987. Learned from Mark Simos). Green Linnet SIF 1101, Eileen Ivers - "Playing with Fire: The Celtic Fiddle Connection" (1989).