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COAL BRANCH REEL, THE. AKA and see "Miss McLeod's Reel (1)," "Mrs. MacLeod's Reel." Canadian, Reel. Canada, New Brunswick. Composed by fiddler Suzanne LeBlanc, named after Coal Branch, a small community northwest of Moncton, New Brunswick. Devon Leger suspects that Suzanne LeBlanc and fiddler Gerry Robichaud's source, Helen Arsenault, were from the same family in the small town of Coal Branch, as they both were née "Maillet" or "Mailet". The tune is an interesting syncopated Acadian adaptation of the Scottish/Irish "Miss McLeod's Reel (1)"/"Mrs. MacLeod of Raasay (1)".

Additional notes

Printed sources : - Corfield (Tunes from New Brunswick), 2024; p. 22.

Recorded sources : - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ‎LM470, Eddie Poirier - "Atlantic Fiddling" (1979). Rounder Records 7016, The Robichaud Brothers - "The Slippery Stick: Traditional Fiddling from New Brunswick" (1996. Learned from Helen Arsenault of Coal Branch, New Brunswick, and Waltham, Mass.).

See also listing at :
See/hear the tune played by Devon Leger at youtube.com [1] and by Ivan & Vivian Hicks at youtube.com [2]

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