Cape Breton Fiddle | John MacDougall

[wwnixon]

This is real CB music .. Gle mhath !!

[klrietmann]

Don't have a name for the strathspey but the reel is J Scott Skinner's tune the Spey in Spate. The strathspey sounds a bit like another JSS tune, Little John's Hame, or perhaps another oldie, Stirling Castle. Very often you hear a tune which is in ways a variant of another tune, sometimes it can be difficult to avoid playing part of the other tune if they're too similar in construction.

[klrietmann]

Thanks so much for these clips of John, I often tell people the fascinating story of his out-of-control composition, which I read about in the liner notes of one of the Rounder compilation CDs of Cape Breton fiddling put together by Mark Wilson. John's music was grand to hear as well, fiddling of all sorts can be fascinating stuff to hear, and these old timers had heaps of character in their music too.

[Westmount88]

He did leave them all to Ian, who also is an extremely talented fiddle player. Although i had only met uncle John a few times he always had his fiddle and always had everyone's feet tapping! R.I.P John

[kitaro1007]

It is very great playing. I love Cape Breton and its fiddle music. Thank you for sharing!

[1likestoplaymusic]

this guy was so cool!! He played at our place before, and he wrote a beautiful peice for my late Grandmother. Awesome!! Thanks for posting:D

[fiddler4adance]

@dp0ulette

if i were close i'd beat you to death with my fiddle, if you wanna see crazy! crawl back into you're little hole! Thanks for watching.

[maidenrulz73]

@fiddler4adance NOOOOOO......not your fiddle..........you need something much harder

[fiddler4adance]

@dp0ulette

if i were close i'd beat you to death with my fiddle, if you wanna see crazy! crawl back into you're little hole!

[Remix350]

@fiddler4adance HAHAHAH! :)

[pontiac735]

Quit it with the stupid comments

[phiddleguy]

Brilliant! John was a very special player - and I think he made like over 35,000 tunes as well! I wonder what happened to his manuscript books?

[4u2listen2]

@phiddleguy I heard that he left them all to his cousin Ian MacDougall an excellent fiddler and long time student of John's. Rumor has it that there are over 40,000 compositions.

[dp0ulette]

quit it with the goddamn fiddles, yall making capebreton island look crazy as fuck

[MattTrecartin]

@dp0ulette

Hi Danielle. Sorry you feel this way. I've posted these clips to keep the memory of this great man alive. His music has touched a lot of people and its a part of Cape Breton heritage.

[ego0627]

@dp0ulette

no Cape Breton blood in your viens I see

[maidenrulz73]

@dp0ulette get back to the ghetto and learn to talk.....yall......what a moron

[huttermania]

@dp0ulette fiddles are part of the culture. if you dont like it, move elsewhere.