Reel

St. Annes Reel

I posted an arrangement of the tune and Andy Volk brought up a great question:

One question I've always had is who was St. Anne and why does she have a reel named after her?

I have heard and played the tune for years and decided to see if I could find out.  Here is one history that  I found on ibiblio.org (http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/ST..htm).   Thought it would be worth sharing.

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FBounds - St. Annes Reel


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I messed around with some recording over the weekend and decided to risk posting this arrangement.  After all the really great stuff others have posted here I am a little hesitant but here it is.  I played around with an arrangement of St. Annes Reel.  There are plenty of flaws here (timing, bar rattle, etc).  This tune definitely stretched me to get it on Reso.  I have played it for years on mandolin.  The playing is not perfect but maybe you'll find the arrangement a little interesting.  

Hope you like it (or some of it...).

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