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The people’s music: Cape Breton on the floor, part 3

The people’s music: Cape Breton on the floor, part 3

Concluding the lecture that Professor Dan MacInnes delivered to the 1998 John MacFadyen Memorial Lecture/Recital. The history of the Cape Breton fiddler as well as the related art of dance piping have received comparatively little study. There are high and low moments in this history and it has not been […]