Saint Anne's Reel
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"St. Annes Reel" is originally Canadian (Québec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island,<br> Cape Breton) but has spread to America and Ireland. The tune was first recorded by<br> Québec fiddler Joseph Allard as “Reel de Ste Anne” which became popular in<br> English-speaking Canada as "St. Anne’s Reel".<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher who says that it is <br> "from John Burke with many modifications".<br> I have played this for a long time and the version shown is the most ornamental that I play.<br> Click<br> here<br> for a simpler version.<br> It was printed in Begin's Fiddle Music from the Ottawa Valley: Dawson Girdwood (1985),<br> Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983),<br> Bulmer & Sharpley's Music from Ireland, vol. 1,<br> Cranford's Jerry Holland: The Second Collection (2000),<br> Jarman's Cornhuskers (1944),<br> S. Johnson's The Kitchen Musician No. 4: Collection of Fine Tunes (1983),<br> Mallinson's Essential (1995),<br> Martin & Hughes's Ho-ro-gheallaidh (1990),<br> McNulty's Dance Music of Ireland (1965),<br> Miller & Perron's New England Fiddle Repertoire (1983),<br> Miskoe & Paul's Omer Marcoux (1994),<br> Perlman's The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island (1996),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994),<br> Reiner & Anick's Old Time Fiddling Across America (1989),<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002),<br> Sweet's Fifer’s Delight (1965/1981) and<br> Taylor's Crossroads Dance (1992).<br> It has been recorded by Aly Bain, Jean Carignan, Tommy Peoples,<br> Aly Bain And Phil Cunningham and many others.<br>
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