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A
Summer concert
in
Cape Breton
Hilda Chiasson, Howie MacDonald, Paul
Cranford, Sarah Beck, Roger Treat &
Yvon LeFort
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Cranford
Publications specializes in Celtic
fiddle music from Cape Breton, Ireland and
Scotland. Proprietor Paul Cranford (3rd
from left) is a fiddler, composer and
retired lightousekeeper well-grounded in
the traditions of music he sells, performs
and arranges.
This
site provides resources for a continuing
tradition. We both create and distribute
books of music notation and related
recordings; materials intended to help you
learn to interpret music. We also link to
many other educational sites as well as to
other fiddlers, luthiers, festivals
etc.
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As you
wander the site you will find links to
thousands of tunes. Check out any page which
features a book or CD that interests you - on
most you will find links to tunes. Many are
posted as free, on-screen musical notation
others as sound clips, midi files, ABCs or link
to articles, photos and descriptions - all
relating to books and CDs which we make or have
made available in our on-line store.
Old
newsletters
are worth exploring since they both
synopsize content and provide links to tunes,
videos, artists, books etc.
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Paul
worked as a lighthousekeeper from 1975-2009.
Lighthouses proved to be an ideal place to
research, write and practice. Working month on -
month off, he started publishing books of fiddle
music in 1979 with a reproduction of
The
Skye Collection
and over the years has published over a dozen
collections. His final lighthouse posting was
Machias
Seal Island
a bird sanctuary located on the Canadian-US
border in the Bay of Fundy.
Since retiring
from lighthouses, Paul has settled into fulltime
life in Cape Breton. In 2009, he was artist in
residence for The
Celtic Colours International
Festival.
In 2010 he released a double CD of original
music titled
More Tunes from the
Lighthouse
which contains over 100 previously unrecorded
tunes - soundclips & notation are posted
for every tune!. In 2011, he once again
worked with Celtic Colours, this time producing
The
Celtic Colours
Collection,
a book of music to celebrate the festival's
first 15 years. The year, 2013 marked the
release of The
Cape Breton Scottish
Collection,
Vol 8 of the Heritage Series. Currently Paul is
working on vol. 9, 10, 11 and 12 - the next of
which will be a compilation of pipe tunes
arranged for fiddle. Titled The Cape Breton
Highland Collection, it is scheduled for
release in May 2015.
Paul is
married to artist, fiddler, piano player Sarah
Beck. Well-known for her pottery, her specialty
is Raku animals, if you are touring Cape Breton
during the tourist season they work together in
her shop, Wildfire Books and Pottery. Located on
the Cabot Trail, the shop also carries a good
supply of the music books and CDs described on
this site.
Our
ABC
Tunes include transcriptions of tunes from
many featured recordings. Note that after a
recording becomes unavailable its associated
tunes, abcs and sound clips remain accessible.
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5/17/14
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