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JAMES KELLY'S TRIP TO CAPE BRETON. AKA - "James Kelly." Canadian, Jig. Canada, Cape Breton. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by the late Inverness, Cape Breton, fiddler and composer Jerry Holland (1955-2009) in honor of the great Dublin fiddler James Kelly, now living in Florida. Kelly had come to Cape Breton to teach fiddle at one of the summer music schools on the island.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cranford (Jerry Holland: The Second Collection), 2000; No. 268, p. 96 (appears as "James Kelly").

Recorded sources: Odyssey ORCS 1051, Jerry Holland - "Fiddler's Choice" (1998).

See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [1]




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