Annotation:Jimmy Kelly's Banjo

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 JIM KELLY'S BANJO. Irish, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Falmouth, Massachusetts, musician and writer Bill Black, in honor of a Massachusetts musician who died in January, 2001. Kelly was a "banjo/box/fiddle/piano player, plectrum maker, storyteller, and all-around great person," says Black, and a unique character active in the Boston Irish music community.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Black (Music's the Very Best Thing), 1996; No. 103.  Recorded sources:

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