Annotation:Murray River Jig
Back to Murray River Jig
MURRAY RIVER JIG. Canadian, Jig. A Mixolydian ('A' part) & A Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Composed by Ontario fiddler and composer (of some 400 tunes) Graham Townsend (1942-1998), named for a Kings County, Prince Edward Island, town. Townsend won the Canadian national fiddling championship at age 21, and made a career of radio and TV appearances, festival bookings and concert tours.
Source for notated version: Gus Longaphie (b. 1914, Little Harbor, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island; now resident of Souris) [Perlman].
Printed sources: Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 141.
Recorded sources: CAT-WMR004, Wendy MacIssac - "The 'Reel' Thing" (1994).