Free Cape Breton Workshops

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• Workshop video links and resources for 3 Cape Breton workshops I taught online in May 2020.

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VIDEO LINK: Cape Breton fiddle workshop (10-May-2020)

VIDEO LINK: Cape Breton fiddle workshop (16-May-2020)

VIDEO LINK: Cape Breton workshop (24-May-2020)

• 1st part - basslines / chording / accompaniment (mostly on piano)

• 2nd part - Cape Breton style / techniques, including ornaments & bowing options, plus a run-through of the longer tune set on A.

AUDIO TRACKS
Tunes (fiddle alone) - slow & fast versions of set:
• Lord Alexander Gordon’s Strathspey (William Marshall)
• Miss Robertson’s Reel (Robert Mackintosh)

AUDIO TRACK
Tunes in context — David with his group Puirt A Baroque (CD: Kinoch’s Fantasy, 1998), playing the set:
• 0:00 Compliments to David Greenberg - march (Joan MacDonald Boes)
• 2:30 Lord Alexander Gordon’s Strathspey (William Marshall)
• 3:35 Doug MacPhee’s Favourite - strathspey (John Campbell)
• 4:25 Miss Robertson - reel (Robert Mackintosh)
• 5:02 Welcome Owen Diack - reel (David Greenberg)

Tunes that would sound good with the two workshop tunes (though you have to put them in a good order!):

One possible order:
• Trip to Mabou Ridge - march (Dan Hughie MacEachern)
• Lord Alexander Gordon’s Strathspey (William Marshall)
• Mabou Coal Mines - strathspey (trad)
• Hughie Rory MacKinnon’s Strathspey (trad)
• Miss Lyall’s Strathspey (trad)
• Lady Erskine - reel (J. Walker)
• Sandy MacIntyre’s Trip to Boston - reel (John Campbell)
• Miss Robertson’s Reel (Robert Mackintosh)

NOTE: To hear this (or any audio) at a slower speed, I suggest using a slow-down app like the Amazing Slow Downer. You can change speed or pitch independently, as well as loop sections.