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This tune I believe derives from Canada. Correct me if I'm wrong.I have it on a LP recording of a fiddler by the name of Simon St.Pierre
2 comments on “Happy Two Acres”
SueH Says:
Tuesday, January 1, 2013 @4:54:09 PM
This brings back some memories, I used to play this with all the local French fiddlers. It was written by Cecil "Cec" McEachern.
tunearch.org/wiki/Talk:Happy_A..._Two-Step
HAPPY ACRES (TWO-STEP). Canadian (originally), American; Two-Step. USA; New York, New Hampshire, Missouri. D Major ('A' part) & A Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Bohrer/Kibler): AABB (Messer): AA'BB' (Phillips). Composed by Canadian guitarist and fiddler Cecil "Cec" McEachern, who joined radio and TV fiddler Don Messer's band in 1947. Transplanted French-Canadian fiddler Omer Marcoux (Concord, N.H.) played a similar sounding tune, obtained off a record in Québec, which he called simply "Reel #1 in C" [Miskoe & Paul, 1994; p. 18]. The tune has considerable currency among New England French fiddlers and is a popular contra dance tune. Central New York fiddler Chad Miller reports the tune has become a regional 'standard' of sorts, stemming from a performance by Graham and Eleanor Townsend (Ontario) at a Fiddler's Picnic in Osceola, NY.
Source for notated version: Vivian Williams (Seattle) [Phillips].
Printed sources: Bohrer (Vic Kibler), 1992; No. 19, p. 19. Messer (Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; No. 187, pp. 132-133. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 2, 1995; p. 60.
Recorded sources: Great Meadow Music, Bob McQuillen - "Old New England" (1996).
Loup Says:
Thursday, January 3, 2013 @1:48:43 PM
Thank you so much Sueh,for your comment and history of Happy Two Acres.
Much appreciated when I am so far from the area of fiddling activity.Thanks to Fiddlehangout,I have closed the gap a bit.
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