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- ↑ "Influential fiddler Eddy Arsenault dies at 92" Archived 2017-03-12 at the Wayback Machine . The Guardian, September 19, 2014
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- ↑ "Music from Canada will be folksy, lively". The Patriot News. 2003-03-16. p. K05.
- ↑ Celeste Brash; Caroline Sieg; Karla Zimmerman (1 March 2014). Lonely Planet Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island. Lonely Planet Publications. pp. 540–. ISBN 978-1-74360-000-9.
- ↑ "Sit down and dance". News Review, By Christine G.K. LaPado-Breglia 09.11.2003.
