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Cape Breton, French Canadian tunes

Cape Breton, French Canadian tunes

Would someone know of a good site for French Canadian and Cape Breton tunes which may be printed off? I love tunes such as Louis' Waltz . Thanks for any help.

# Posted on November 5th 2009 by WM

Re: Cape Breton, French Canadian tunes

There are a number of Jerry Holland tunes here you can print.
http://www.jerryholland.com/tunes.htm

# Posted on November 5th 2009 by P-K

Re: Cape Breton, French Canadian tunes

There are French Canadian and Cape Breton tunes on this site.

# Posted on November 5th 2009 by TheSilverSpear

Re: Cape Breton, French Canadian tunes

http://www.cbfiddle.com/rx/tunesearch.html

http://imagesetmusiques.free.fr/reels.html

# Posted on November 5th 2009 by domnull

Re: Cape Breton, French Canadian tunes

This is a wonderful resource: http://www.cranfordpub.com/
Lots of ABCs and some gifs of tunes. You have to explore a bit: http://www.cranfordpub.com/tunes/sample_tunes.htm
I also purchased from the site (a while ago) - must revisit as they've got some great things.

# Posted on November 5th 2009 by RichardB

Re: Cape Breton, French Canadian tunes

http://mustrad.udenap.org/

# Posted on November 5th 2009 by jasonb

Re: Cape Breton, French Canadian tunes

Try the Ottawa Cape Breton Session site. They have all their sets posted online for download (http://web.ripnet.com/%7Ebmacgi/), most of which are from the Cape Breton Fiddler's Associtation.

Also try Cranford Publications as RichardB suggests. Paul Cranford has published a series of tune books including collections from Jerry Holland, Brenda Stubbert, Winston 'Scotty' Fitzgerald, and of course, his own compositions.

Between these two, you will have enough to keep you going for a while!

# Posted on November 5th 2009 by jsmith

Re: Cape Breton, French Canadian tunes

But please remember - sheet music is just the bare bones of a tune. To really get an idea of how the tunes are played, get a recording. Lots of CDs for sale at Cranford Publications :)

# Posted on November 5th 2009 by jsmith

Re: Cape Breton, French Canadian tunes

Thank you so much to all who assisted me with my search for Cape Breton and French Canadian tunes.

# Posted on November 5th 2009 by WM

Re: Cape Breton, French Canadian tunes

I was having a look at some of the photos from the pub session at the Ottawa Cape Breton Session site. Holy mackerel that's some amount of music standage going on there !!

# Posted on November 7th 2009 by Patkiwi

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