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SAINT JOHN'S HOEDOWN. AKA - "St. John's Hoedown." Canadian, Reel (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). The tune is from New Brunswick fiddler Ned Landry (1921-2018) and named for the city of Saint John, New Brunswick. Landry does mostly shuffle bowing through the chord progression for the second strain. "Saint John's Hoedown" was also in the repertoire of, and recorded by, North Dakota fiddler Joe Pancerzewski (1905-1991) who played many Canadian tunes and was heavily influenced by Canadian styles.

Additional notes

Printed sources : - Songer & Curley (Portland Collection, vol. 2), 2005; p. 176.

Recorded sources : - RCA Victor 57-3270 (45 RPM), Ned Landry and His New Brunswick Lumberjacks (19??). Voyager VRLP 306-S, Joe Pancerzewski - "The Fiddling Engineer" (1971).

See also listing at :
Hear Joe Pancerzewski's recording at Slippery Hill [1]
Hear Vivian and Phil Williams play the tune at youtube.com [2], learned from Pancersewski--they give an nice sketch of him in their introduction.
Hear Ned Landry's recording at youtube.com [3]

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