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Cranford Publications specializes in Celtic fiddle music from Cape Breton, Ireland and Scotland. Proprietor Paul Cranford is a fiddler and composer firmly rooted within the traditions of music he sells. This site provides resources for a continuing tradition. We create and distribute books of music notation and related recordings; materials intended to help you learn fiddle tunes as interpreted by Cape Breton fiddlers.

As you explore you will find links to thousands of tunes. Check out the pages featuring books and CDs and you will find links to tunes as free, on-screen musical notation. sound clips, midi files, ABCs or to articles, photos and descriptions - most relating to books and CDs which we make available in our on-line store.

Featured Books and Recordings

Theresa MacLellan

Jery Holland and Doug MacPhee

Two new compilations featuring 20 fiddlers have been added to Rounder's Traditional Fiddle Music of Cape Breton series. Titled, MacKinnon's Brook and Bras d'Or House, fiddlers include Father Francis Cameron, Stan Chapman, Joe Cormier, Jerry Holland, Willie Kennedy, Charlie MacCuspic, John L. MacDonald, Carl MacKenzie, Maynard MacKenzie, Joe Peter MacLean, Donald MacLellan, Theresa MacLellan, Bussy MacLeod, Kenneth MacLeod, Buddy MacMaster, Morgan MacQuarrie, Theresa Morrison, Wilfred Prosper and Paul Wukitsch.

Transcriptons (on-screen GIFs), mp3s and extensive notes (36 page PDFs) posted alongside the CDs

Michael Anthony MacLean passed away in 2008 at age 95. This double CD was compiled from home recordings made from 1955-2003

Longtime Cape Breton Fiddler's Association member, Stanley MacKinnon playing for his centenarian mother.

Brenda Stubbert has 2 books and six CDs to her credit. Brenda Stubbert's Collection of Fiddle Tunes now includes chords and photos.
Tune clips have been posted from her latest ECMA award winning CD,
Endless Memories.

Volume 7 of Cranford Publications' Cape Breton Musical Heritage Series contains 267 Fiddle tunes from approximately seventy-five contemporary Cape Breton composers as well as Scottish and Cape Breton music from earlier centuries. More  

Our newsletter has been delayed. Silver Apple News 11 is still in the planning stages. With luck it will be mailed to current customers sometime during the next 6 months. Like past issues it will include articles and musical transcriptions which relate to featured books and recordings available from Cranford Publications. If you'd like to receive a FREE COPY email us your postal address (not necessary if you are a current customer). PDFs of back issues are also available.

Our on-line store allows secure credit card purchases for all the books and recordings we feature. We use an intuitive shopping cart system which allows you to change your mind - even after you have activated a BUY-ME link. We also take phone and mail orders.

Our ABC Tunes feature usually includes transcriptions of tunes from a featured recordings or book. Dozens of abc archives are accessible from past features.

ABC TUNES

For ABC beginners, we also guide you through the how-to convert ABCS to standard notation or midi files.

Fiddler-publisher-composer Paul Cranford started publishing in 1979 with a reproduction of The Skye Collection. For the past 34 years he has also kept a 'day-job' as a lighthouse keeper. An ideal place to write, practice and maintain this website, his current posting is Machias Seal Island a bird sanctuary located on the Canadian-US border in the Bay of Fundy. During his months off. Paul lives on the Cabot Trail in rural Cape Breton.

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