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