Trip To Mabou Ridge
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Trip To Mabou Ridge" is a Canadian pipe march in 2/4 time and A Mixolydian.<br> The parts are played AABBCCDD.<br> It was composed in 1938 by influential Cape Breton fiddler and composer Dan Hughie<br> MacEachern (1913-1996), born in Queensville, Nova Scotia. He began fiddling at an<br> early age, with help from his older brothers John Willie and Alex but he did not record<br> commercially in his lifetime. He composed one of his most famous compositions,<br> "Trip to Mabou Ridge", after coming home from a dance in the old schoolhouse at<br> Mabou Ridge.<br> Mabou is a settlement in the County of Inverness on the west coast of Cape Breton Island,<br> Nova Scotia, Canada. During the late 19th century and early 20th century Mabou's primary<br> economic activity centered around coal mining. Today Mabou is primarily a fishing port<br> for a small fleet of lobster boats.<br> It was printed in Shears' Gathering of the Clans Collection, vol. 1 (1986).<br> It was recorded by Buddy MacMaster on Judique Flyer,<br> Theresa and Marie MacLellan on A Trip to Mabou Ridge (1979) and<br> various artists on Traditional Fiddle Music of Cape Breton, Vol. 1: Mabou Coal Mines (2002).<br>
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