"In 1972 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) aired a half-hour documentary that conveyed the message that traditional Scottish-style fiddle music in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, was in decline and would soon die out. The film, Vanishing Cape Breton Fiddler, argued that modern music was more popular with the young generation of the 1960s and 1970s and that, as a result, transmission of the style and tunes handed down from 19th-century Scottish immigrants to Cape Breton would be broken."
The Myth of the Vanishing Cape Breton Fiddler
YouTube: Vanishing Cape Breton Fiddler 1, 1971s Vanishing Cape Breton Fiddler w Rankin Family
2011 July: Cape Breton Island
2011 June" The Lost Salt Gift of Blood - Alistair MacLeod
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