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SIR WILFRED LAURIER’S JIG. AKA and see “Stubbert's Jig (The).” Canadian, Single Jig (6/8 or 12/8 time). Canada, Cape Breton. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Distantly related to “Sir Wilfrid Laurier March.”
Additional notes
Source for notated version: - fiddler Brenda Stubbert (b. 1959, Point Aconi, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia) who had the tune from her father, Robert Stubbert, who learned it from a blind travelling soap salesman named ‘Blind Frank’, a harmonica player [Cranford].
Printed sources : - Cranford (Brenda Stubbert's Colletion of Fiddle Tunes), 1994; No. 125, p. 43. Natalie MacMaster (Natalie MacMaster's Cape Breton Island Fiddle), 2001; p. 27.
Recorded sources: -Howie MacDonald - "A Few Tunes" (appears as “The Stubberts of Point Aconi Jig”). Rounder 7052, Buddy MacMaster - "The Cape Breton Tradition" (2003). Natalie MacMaster - "The Collection" (2007).
See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]
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