At the recent 50th anniversary celebration for the Cape Breton Fiddlers, 150 fiddlers were on stage playing the Juanita Jig Set. Below is the link to the sheet music so you can try it at home. Do check the CBF website for photos of the big event and for more tunes Sheet Music
Category: Tunes to Try
Tunes for May
Chetticamp Jig Elmer Briand (1922-1992) was a wonderful fiddler player and prolific fiddle composer from Cape Breton. Some fiddlers will want to start the tune in third position, others with larger hands can just reach up to get that high C3 with a long fourth finger…. Sheet Music March of the Cameron Men This march […]
Sleep, Dearie, Sleep
Sleep, Dearie, Sleep This tune is based on an old Gaelic Air “Caidil mo Ghaoil”, which translates to “Sleep my Love”. It is used as a taps signal call in Highland Regiments, and the Queen requested that her piper Pipe Major Paul Burns play it at Westminister Abbey. It is played quite slowly and the pipes […]
Ukranian Waltzes
Ukrainian Waltzes for you to try Two lovely Ukrainian Waltzes. These love songs are fun to play and have interesting chords. Moonlit Night (Put in pdf and mp3 versions below)Moonlit Night youtube versions:1) A Moonlight Night-the Most Beautiful Ukrainian Song (Feb. 27,2022 with orchestra and singers)2) The Night Is So Moonlit Nadia Violin Mar 8 […]
Ukrainian National Anthem
Ukrainian National Anthem The Ukrainian National Anthem originated in the 1860’s with lyrics by Pavlo Chubynsky and music by the Greek Catholic clergyman, Mykhalio Verbytsky. When the Soviet Republic took over Ukraine in 1922, this anthem was banned. In 1992, after the independence of Ukraine was declared, the anthem was adopted again with minimal changes. There […]
A Heart Undivided
This new slow air from yet another talented MacMaster (nephew of Natalie and grand-nephew of Buddy) was just composed in May of 2021. Another lovely tune to try at home and hopefully share soon with friends….
Missing You by Carol Boyer
Missing You The Covid 19 Waltz by Carol Boyer By Amy Swenson, President In these trying times we are all missing the close contact we used to have with friends and family. Try this tune to soothe a sad heart; sheet music is below. Posted here with […]
Emmett Hughes
Emmett Hughes By Amy Swenson, President Emmett Hughes (1921-2011) was a fiddler of extraordinary talent and dexterity from Dromore, PEI. He came from a very musical family, began fiddling at an early age and from the start had an amazingly accurate memory for tunes. He worked as […]
Three Tunes by Andrea Beaton
Three Tunes by Andrea Beaton Andrea Beaton, Cape Breton fiddler extraordinaire, has been composing some lovely tunes which can be heard on her CD’s and found in her tune books on her website at andreabeaton.com I have been driving along happily playing her CD’s for some time now and wanted to share three of her tunes with […]
Christmas 2020
Christmas 2020 Four more Christmas tunes to try at home. If you can find another fiddler to do the harmony, it is even more fun. Also, click on the post “Merry Christmas Dec. 15 2019” for several more good holiday tunes. Let’s hope we will learn these so we will […]