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X:1 T:River Bend, The C:Dan R. MacDonald M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig K:A f|e2A f2d|ecA Ace|=g2d BAB|=GBd gdB| e2A f2d|ecA Ace|g2e dcd|ecA A2:| |:g|aba aec|Ace agf|gag gdB|GBd gdB| |1aba aec|Ace agf|g2 e dcd|ecA A2g:| |2=cBc d^cd|efg agf|g2e dcd|ecA A2||

RIVER BEND, THE. AKA - "River Bend Jig." Canadian, Jig (6/8 time). Canada, Cape Breton. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB’. One of the more popular compositions by the prolific Cape Breton fiddler and composer biography:Dan R. MacDonald (1911-1976). Editor John Donald Cameron remarks that the tune is a “Cape Breton square dance favorite,” written to commemorate a successful day’s fishing in a small trout river that flows through his childhood home of Judique South.

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Andrew Jones (b. 1918, Roseville, Prince Edward Island; now resident of Pleasant View) [Perlman].

Printed sources : - Cameron (Trip to Windsor), 1994; p. 43. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 140. Shears (Gathering of the Clans Collection, vol. 2), 2001. Susan Songer with Clyde Curley (Portland Collection vol. 3), 2015; p. 176.

Recorded sources : - Rounder 7005, Carl MacKenzie - "Welcome to Your Feet Again" (1977). Rounder 7006, Theresa and Marie MacLellan - "Trip to Mabou Ridge" (1979).

See also listing at :
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]

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