Kinnon Beaton (born March 26, 1956) is a Canadian musician from Mabou,

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. He is the son of

Donald Angus Beaton Donald Angus Beaton (1912–1981) was a Canadian blacksmith and a Cape Breton-style fiddler. Early life Beaton was the son of Angus R. Beaton (Aonghas Raonuill) and Annie Belle Campbell. Career Beaton performed traditional fiddle tunes, as ...

and Elizabeth MacEachen, plays the

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in the

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genre famous on

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and wrote a book of violin music called ''The Beaton Collection''.Cranford Publishing
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