Annotation:Mac Morin's Jig

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MAC MORIN'S JIG. Canadian, Jig. Canada, Cape Breton. E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. Composed by the late Inverness, Cape Breton, fiddler and composer Jerry Holland (1955-2009), for a young piano player who visited him occasionally.

Morin [1] is a presently a teacher and performer of Cape Breton stepdancing and piano, and is a much sought-after accompanist and producer, and has recorded and toured with fiddler Natalie MacMaster. He is the cofounder of the Cape Breton group Beolach.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cranford (Jerry Holland: The Second Collection), 2000; No. 280, p. 100.

Recorded sources: Odyssey ORCS 1051, Jerry Holland - "Fiddler's Choice" (1999).

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