Vanishing Cape Breton Fiddler 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ม.ค. 2007
- I believe this is part 1 of of The Vanishing Cape Breton Fiddler which was produced, directed by Ron MacInnis and aired on the CBC in 1971.
Mr. MacInnis has done a great service for lovers of Cape Breton music. Very little footage of Dan R. MacDonald exists and Mr. MacInnis is responsible for what little we have. Some great shots of Dan Hughie MacEachern (Jackie Dunn's great uncle) in this clip. We have little footage of him. This also features the only footage of Sandy MacLean of Foot Cape that I know of.
I don't like posting something for which I don't own the copyright but since this isn't available for purchase and you can't copy the files to your computer I put it up for educational purposes only. Please urge the copyright holders to make it available. - เพลง
I play the Father John Rankin tune on my guitar. Cape Briton music isn't dying. There are good fiddlers always coming up. And thank God!
Yes, MacInnis is still alive: I know that to be true for I am him. That is a sobering fact because most of the people in the film have passed away.
The film brings back a flood of memories.
CBC owns the contract but kindly gave rights to the Celtic Music Interpretive Center in Cape Breton. Rights are a kind of anachronism as all of this should be public property.
Glad you all enjoy!
its such a shame that the cape breton fiddle was once starting to vanish. so proud to say im keeping that tradition alive!
Back in 1998, a musical mentor of mine, the Uilllean Piper Tom Standeven, spoke to me of his friendship with a Father Rankin from Cape Breton. Tom also spoke fluent Irish Gaelic and regularly traveled up to Cape Breton. Tom got his musical apprenticeship in Philadelphia (1950's) with Sligo fiddler and ironworker John Vesey. Well, I always wondered "who is this Father Rankin guy in Cape Breton?", as Tom passed away in 2002, after returning to Delaware, USA. Well this video is just great, as some of my grand uncles in Newfoundland moved to Cape Breton in the 1920's to work in the mines.
Here in 2024 while walking thru the graveyard thinking about how tragic an accident John died in born raised and will be in Cape Breton all my life
Thanks so much for posting this! That's the first time I've seen the footage of Sandy MacLean, I love his playing
I know Ron and Carole, they live down the road from me. Wonderful people. Watched this a few times and love it.
for the record in Cape Breton, some call it a fiddle, some a violin. I have heard Father Rankin call it both. This is a fond memory for me. Thanks for posting. Ron M
This is a great help for a GIANT project I'm making for school. Thank you so much for putting this up here. I never thought I would find it.
Thanks for posting i keep coming back to this.
Thank You for making this available... What a wonderful video to view...Thanks Again....
Wonderful.
Thank You.
MacNeil
Spot on nozecone. John Campbell, Joseph Cormier and Willie Kennedy to name but three each had albums featuring "violin" music. The music is the thing, forget the side issues.
Wonderful!
The Old Priest at the end of the tape captured the essence of Cape Breton music that has a special vibrancy and life to it .
the priest is fr.john angus rankin
Somebody - please! - put up some more of this documentary. (And many thanks to Ron MacInnis!)
This video is so interesting. Especially the old timer brushing the floor off and dancing at 4:15. He appears to be the same man at Sandy MacLean who was talking at 8:50. There is a Sandy MacLean, born 1893 in "The Cape Breton Fiddler" book by Allister MacGillivray, but has to be a little older. The old timers coming out to community events dressed up and being entertaining whether music or stories seems so parallel to my early life in the 1960's here in West Virginia
The dancer brushing the floor was Donald "Dan" Reilly from Port Hastings, and is found in one of Allister's other books "A Cape Breton Ceilidh". 8:50 is the Sandy MacLean from "The Cape Breton Fiddler".
Great Post!
Does anybody know of a full version of the tune playing at 4:16
It's called Caber Feidh, if that helps. One of the old standards; shouldn't be hard to find sheet music on-line.
@@nozecone thank you so much
My pleasure! @@fcgarbage4815
Although a lot of the old Cape Bretoners would tend to use the term 'violin' rather than 'fiddle', when speaking in English ....
(This was a response to a post that has been since removed.)
Who owns the copyright (CBC??) and is Mcinnis till alive? Contact?
Very much alive and working on the sequel to the above 45 years after the fact. Just about finished.
Any more word on this? @@oceanstone333
@@oceanstone333did it ever get finished ?
This is great except for the priest's concluding remarks which are fantasy. The capers brought traditional Gàidhlig music and spirit from Scotland while Scotch culture in Scotland was abused under British subjugation.
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