Johnnie Wilmot's Fiddle

reel

Key signature: Adorian

Submitted on October 4th 2004 by ceolachan.

This tune has been added to 32 tunebooks.

Also known as Johnny Wilmot's Fiddle, Johnny Wilmot's Fiddles.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• A Compilation by Natalie MacMaster
• At Home by Rosie Shipley And Matt Mulqueen
• Fire And Grace by Alistair Fraser With Natalie Haas
• Stark Ravin' by Roy Johnstone

X: 1
T: Johnnie Wilmot's Fiddle
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Ador
|: BEED EDB,E | DB,A,B, DEFd | AD(3DDD FEDF |1 ABdA BdAF :|
2 ABdF E3 (B ||
|: B) e2 f gfeg | fedf edBA | B/^c/dAd FDDF | ABdA BdAF |
[1 Ee2f gfeg | fedf edBA | B/^c/dAd FDDF | ABdF E3 (B :|
[2 BEED EDB,E | DB,A,B, DEFd | AD(3DDD FEDF | ABdF E3 A ||

Two fine musicians, this is a composition by Elmer Briand for Johnny Wilmot, also to be found in his collection:

"Fiddle Tunes: A Collection of Elmer Briand's Musical Compositions"
Elmer C. Briand, Cape Breton Island

# Posted on October 4th 2004 by ceolachan

Johnny's compliment to Elmer:

http://www.cranfordpub.com/tunes/CapeBreton/ElmerBriand'sFavourite.htm

# Posted on October 4th 2004 by ceolachan

Someone's unfinished memory of this tune and in another key has just been discovered here:

http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2023

# Posted on October 4th 2004 by ceolachan

"The Cape Breton Fiddle of Elmer Briand"
Celtic Records: SCX-56, 1962
Elmer Briand - fiddle
Donald MacKinnon - guitar
Kathleen Beaton - piano

While his hand-notated collection has the title in the singular, this recording has it plural, as "Johnny Wilmot's Fiddles"...

# Posted on October 4th 2004 by ceolachan

"Elmer Briand & His Cape Breton Fiddle"
Celtic Records: SCX-58
Elmer Briand - fiddle
Joseph G. Poirier - guitar
Kathleen Beaton - piano

# Posted on October 4th 2004 by ceolachan

"Johnny Wilmot: Another Side of Cape Breton"
Cranford Publications
Paul needs us to urge him to put this from 'temporary' to back in print...

http://www.cranfordpub.com/recordings/Wilmot.htm

# Posted on October 4th 2004 by ceolachan

http://www.cranfordpub.com/articles/my_friend_johnny.htm

# Posted on October 4th 2004 by ceolachan

"Elmer Briand's Reel" ~ with a nice introduction about the man:

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2023/comments

# Posted on July 4th 2005 by ceolachan

Fiddle workshop in Rochester, MA

we learned Johnny Wilmot's Fiddle with Hanneke Cassel, very nice tune! 12/9/06

# Posted on December 11th 2006 by jamfiddler