Annotation:Sleeping Giant Two-Step

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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.

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: -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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