CATHARSIS. American, Reel. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Composed by Amy Cann, a fiddler and music teacher from Putney, Vermont, who told Susan Songer she wrote the tune in ten minutes one night instead of making a phone call "and saying something I'd later regret to someone I cared about very much." The tune is popular with New England contra dance musicians.
Additional notes
Source for notated version: -
Printed sources : - Songer (Portland Collection), 1997; p. 46.
Recorded sources: - Black Socks BS 14, "Uncle Gizmo." Conerstone - "Maggie's Daughter." Rounder RO7023, Natalie MacMaster - "No Boundaries" (1996. Learned from a pub session in Edinburgh, Scotland). Popcorn Behavior - "Journeywork" (1997).
