Francis Beaton’s reel

Composed by Donald Angus Beaton, this reel is transcribed from the playing of Cape Breton fiddler Buddy MacMaster on his ‘The Judique Flyer’ album. MacMaster’s rendering is very close to the published version.

🙂 I love it. I’ve got a 4-part single reel of his to add tomorrow.

It seems I submitted the march past the allotted time allowance for a day. I think it’s 3 p.m. to 3 p.m. and I must have missed it when I was preparing a roast dinner, a lovely free range corn fed chicken with roast veggies and gravy. Damn! I just realized I’d forgotten the tomatoes. Now to settle down to a South African cider. I didn’t know they grew apples in South Africa, let alone for cider… 😀

Celtic Music Interpretive Centre - Judique, Nova Scotia
http://www.celticmusiccentre.com/

Introduction to the Donald Angus Beaton Project
http://www.celticmusiccentre.com/collections/dab/index.htm

Welcome to Mabou: The Life and Music of Donald Angus Beaton
Biography: http://www.celticmusiccentre.com/collections/dab/bio.htm

Compositions by Donald Angus Beaton
http://www.celticmusiccentre.com/collections/dab/compositions.htm

“Francis Beaton’s Reel” ~ includes sheet music (PDF) and four recordings (MP3s) by ~ The Beatons of Mabou, Andrea Beaton, Buddy MacMaster, & Morgan MacQuarrie…

This bears a really strong resemblance to “Oot Be Est Da Vong”.
https://thesession.org/tunes/642

This setting is pretty much what Angus himself plays but without the 2 f#s, beats 3 & 4 in bar 7.