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…