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CHETICAMP REEL. Canadian, Reel and Set Dance Tune. Canada; Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Cheitcamp is a French village on the west coast of Cape Breton island where most of the island's Acadian population lives. According to Susan Songer, the tune is presently well-known by Alaska contra dance musicians.

Sources for notated versions: Cape Breton fiddlers Angus Chisolm via Arthur Muise to Howie MacDonald [Dunlay and Reich]; Sterling Baker (b. mid-1940's, Morell, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island; now resident of Montague) [Perlman]; fiddler Diane McIntyre (who moved from Portland, Oregon, to Alaska) [Songer].

Printed sources: Dunlay and Reich (Traditional Celtic Fiddle Music from Cape Breton), 1986; p. 65. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 149. Songer (Portland Collection), 1997; p. 49.

Recorded sources: RC2000, George Wilson - "Royal Circus" (2000). SAR-A-017, Howie MacDonald- "And His Cape Breton Fiddle" (1985).

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