Cape Breton fiddler: info sought

Subject: RE: Cape Breton fiddler: info sought
From: GUEST,Marianne S.
Date: 09 Jul 11 - 06:24 AM

Passed it on to a very knowledgeable friend .....

Subject: RE: Cape Breton fiddler: info sought
From: Colin Randall
Date: 09 Jul 11 - 02:11 AM

Many thanks.

Subject: RE: Cape Breton fiddler: info sought
From: meself
Date: 08 Jul 11 - 10:24 PM

And I've forwarded it to the cbmusic list ....

Subject: RE: Cape Breton fiddler: info sought
From: Willie-O
Date: 08 Jul 11 - 08:41 PM

Colin, I have forwarded your question to the Ottawa Cape Breton Session...bet you will soon have more answers than you want.

Bill Cameron
aka W-O

Subject: RE: Cape Breton fiddler: info sought
From: Colin Randall
Date: 08 Jul 11 - 01:42 PM

I hope no one mind if I give a solitary bump-up to this request for any info on Dougie Grant, Cape Breton fiddler. If this produces nothing, I shall leave it at that and hope my Facebook contact responds to my message to him.

Subject: Cape Breton fiddler: info sought
From: Colin Randall
Date: 07 Jul 11 - 04:15 PM

Long story cut short, I wrote a piece -
http://www.salutlive.com/2011/07/cape-breton.html - about Cape Breton music that included this quote from someone describing a hospital visit:

"The guy two beds over is Dougie Grant a fiddler from Inverness, contemporary of Donald R Cameron, John Allenstein and Buddie MacMaster. Two or three time a day he plays - we just shout out the names of jigs and reels we remember-he plus them all Well! Only in a Cape Breton hospital eh?"

The quote was from a third-party Facebook source and I have not been able to make contact with him since.

But I had never heard of Dougie Grant and can find no trace in basic internet searches.

I thought the quote would appeal to pretty much anyone who makes music in Cape Breton, or appreciates the music made there, but i would love to know more about Dougie Grant.

In the Facebook message referred to, the name John Allenstein was followed by the word "cater:" in case that is a clue.