Donald Angus Beaton

Beaton was the son of Angus R. Beaton (Aonghas Raonuill) and Annie Belle Campbell.{{cite book |last = MacGillivary |first = Allister |title = The Cape Breton Fiddler |year = 1981 |isbn = 0-920336-12-4 |pages = [https://archive.org/details/capebretonfiddle0000macg/page/80 80] |publisher = College of Cape Breton Press |url = https://archive.org/details/capebretonfiddle0000macg/page/80 }}

Beaton performed traditional fiddle tunes, as well as more than 50 of his own compositions.{{cite book|author=June Skinner Sawyers|title=Celtic Music: A Complete Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ho9DONbTpbwC&pg=PA76|year=2001|publisher=Perseus (for Hbg)|isbn=978-0-306-81007-7|pages=76–}}[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/willie-frasers-dancing-feet-carried-gaelic-traditions-through-nova-scotia/article23979948/ "Willie Fraser’s dancing feet carried Gaelic traditions through Nova Scotia"]. ALLISON LAWLOR The Globe and Mail, Apr. 15, 2015 He was well known as a dance fiddler.{{cite book|title=Old Time Herald|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-U8qAQAAIAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Old-Time Music Group|pages=104–105}}{{cite book|author=Bob Mersereau|title=The History of Canadian Rock 'n' Roll|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M7sVCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT168|date=1 March 2015|publisher=Backbeat Books|isbn=978-1-4950-2890-8|pages=168–}}

He often played and recorded with family members. The albums The Beatons Of Mabou - Marches, Jigs, Strathspeys & Reels of the Highland Scot and Cape Breton Fiddle and Piano Music, The Beaton Family of Mabou feature his compositions played by his family.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090327061934/http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=3008 Smithsonian Folkways] He also published a book of his tunes.

• The Beatons Of Mabou - Marches, Jigs, Strathspeys & Reels of the Highland Scot . Rounder LP 7011 {{cite book|author=Ryan J. Thomson|title=The Fiddler's Almanac|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DdK9IOK6_FMC&pg=PA104|year=1985|publisher=Captain Fiddle Publications|isbn=978-0-931877-00-1|pages=104–}}[http://www.juneberry78s.com/33rpms/rounderlps.htm Rounder Lps] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090319010926/http://www.juneberry78s.com/33rpms/rounderlps.htm |date=March 19, 2009 }} The Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Cape Breton Fiddle and Piano Music, The Beaton Family of Mabou Smithsonian Folkways 40507
• Live at the House{{cite book|author=Lori Henry|title=Dancing Through History: In Search of the Stories That Define Canada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mo6nXyq03g0C&pg=PA47|date=1 January 2012|publisher=Dancing Traveller Publishing|isbn=978-0-9876897-7-1|pages=47–}}

• Donald Angus Beaton's Cape Breton Scottish Violin Music. Cranford Publishers. Englishtown, Nova Scotia. 1987.{{cite book|author=Drew Beisswenger|title=North American Fiddle Music: A Research and Information Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CqGRAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT285|date=31 May 2011|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-84722-7|pages=285–}}

His son is the Cape Breton fiddler Kinnon Beaton.{{cite book|author1=Carol Corbin|author2=Judith A. Rolls|title=The Centre of the World at the Edge of a Continent|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qXfEhk1vHA8C&pg=PA214|year=1996|publisher=Cape Breton University Press|isbn=978-0-920336-82-3|pages=214–}} Andrea Beaton, Kinnon's daughter is also a fiddler.{{cite book|author1=Ian Russell|author2=Mary Anne Alburger|title=Driving the Bow: Fiddle and Dance Studies from Around the North Atlantic 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2NXfAAAAMAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen|isbn=978-0-9545682-5-2|pages=145–148}}

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