About this minute

Title
New Haven Reel
Performer
Betty Lou Beaton
Performer
Kinnon Beaton
Performer
Owen D. Gillis
Contributor
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Collections
Collection 4

GRC4 #50

You’ve just heard some traditional and folk music from Cape Breton, which is a small island in the Atlantic Ocean, near the East coast of Canada and part of the Nova Scotia region. The music is a ‘reel’ which is a kind of dance, originally from Scotland. Many of the colonial settlers in the Cape...
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