JOHN MORRIS RANKIN & HOWIE MACDONALD - 1986 MABOU CEILIDH

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John Morris Rankin and Howie MacDonald play a set of tunes at the annual Mabou Ceilidh Days Concert ( July 1986 ) which usually took place on the Mabou Arena grounds and was seen as the " Kick-Off " to a series of summer festivals and concerts around Cape Breton Island , from Port Hawkesbury to Sydney to Big Pond , Whycocomagh , Inverness , Broad Cove , St. Ann`s Gaelic College , Cheticamp , St. Joseph Du Moine , Iona , Glendale , Scotsville , Creignish , Glencoe , Port Hood , Judique and more . Father John Angus Rankin and Archie Neil Chisholm , emceed this concert , as well as many other concerts on The Island . This video was recorded by Howard Sleep.
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[gengodreau]

so true fiddler! so many of those vhs(s) floatin around out there! GORGEOUS CLIP.

[rankin383]

Thanks for remembering John Morris. There was nobody who out-fiddle the Mabou Coal Mines people.

[velocity253]

John Morris captured the Cape Breton sound better than any other fiddler with his hollowbody old Mabou coal mines style of playing....Simply the best sound ever.....

[silverbullet2026]

another great tune!!!!!

[Raibeart1]

It's the Cape Breton version of the Irish reel "Toss the Feathers". It is likely that Johnny M is responsible for this setting of the tune. He frequently played these first three reels in this sequence ... the following two being "Mary McMahon" and "The Old Copperplate".

[shawnyboie]

wats the name of his first reel he played

[superstar85ca]

John Morris was and still is one of the greatest.  What a fine player and inspiration

[cerefamily]

He is one the best I've heard so far. What a big talent he has!

[cbfiddler1975]

howard sleep didthe best videos inthe 80'sand early 90's in cape breton-and i knowthis for a fact as my parentsgotdozensofthem and everyone isgreat--you know whatelse- my parrot only whitlsesto the best fiddle tunes- and thisone got her crazy-thanks john morris

ashley

[Pilotpatty1]

God bless John Morris! What talent!