Camp Meeting on the 4th of July
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Camp Meeting on the Fourth of July" is an old-time march in D Major. It is played in<br> standard or DDad fiddle tuning. The parts are played AB or AA'BB'.<br> Camp meetings were common outdoor revivals held on the American frontier<br> during the 19th century by various Protestant denominations.<br> These camp meetings filled an ecclesiastical and<br> spiritual need in the unchurched settlements as the population moved west.<br> Their origin is obscure, but historians have generally credited James<br> McGready (c. 1760–1817), a Presbyterian, with inaugurating the first typical<br> camp meetings in 1799–1801 in Logan county, Kentucky. Other ministers<br> who associated with McGready subsequently spread his methods throughout<br> the southern United States.<br> Those who attended such meetings came prepared to camp out.<br> As many as 10,000 to 20,000 people were reported at some meetings.<br> Activities included preaching, prayer meetings, hymn singing, weddings,<br> and baptisms. The theology of the preachers varied, but a sudden<br> conversion experience was usually emphasized.<br> The tune was originally used as a processional<br> march at the beginning of these revival meetings. Its earliest documented<br> use has been traced back to a series of camp meetings held in Alabama and<br> Arkansas in the late 1800's.<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher.<br> It was printed in Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002),<br> James Bryan's Festival of Fiddle Tunes (1995) and<br> Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021).<br> It was recorded by Chris Coole on Old Dog (2010),<br>
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