The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island: Celtic and Acadian Tunes in Living Tradition

Journal of American Folklore | April 1, 2000| | Copyright

The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island: Celtic and Acadian Tunes in Living Tradition. By Ken Perlman. (Pacific, Miss,: Mel Bay Publications, 1996. Pp. 216, table of contents, index, introduction, musical notation for427 tunes, photographs, five appendixes.)

Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) lies approximately ten miles off the east coast of Canada, separated from its sister provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia by the Northumberland Strait. It is geographically the smallest province in Canada; at 2,184 square miles it is only slightly larger than Delaware (1,933) and less than half the ...

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