Annotation:Over the Cabot Trail

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OVER THE CABOT TRAIL JIG. Canadian, Jig. Canada, Cape Breton. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Mabou Coal Mines, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, fiddler Donald Angus Beaton (b. 1912), an exemplar of the Mabou Coal Mines style of fiddling (Shears).

The Cabot Trail is a spectacularly scenic route through Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island, named for the explorer John Cabot (who, while he explored for the English, was a Portugeuse named Cabato).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Shears (Gathering of the Clans Collection, vol. 1), 1986; p. 75.

Recorded sources: Rounder 7011, "The Beatons of Mabou: Scottish Violin Music from Cape Breton" (1978). Rounder 7038, Willie Kennedy & Morgan MacQuarrie - "Traditional Fiddle Music of Cape Breton, vol. 2: The Rover's Return" (2002. Various artists).

See also listing at:
Hear a clip of the Beatons of Mabou playing the tune [1]
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [2]