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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 lighhtouses, 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. This year, 2013 mak 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 titled The Cape Breton Highland
Collection.
Paul is
married to artist, fiddler, piano player Sarah
Beck. Well-known for her Raku animals, she also
has her hand in many other pies including
computer art and used books. 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 carrys a good supply of 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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