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Co. Leitrim is the home of much music that reflects its varied settings of wooden flute music. It has a wonderful tradition of local styles that highlight a very old relationship between musicians who shared each others’ tune settings. I haven’t heard many people play this hornpipe except the Kelly family of Capel Street, Dublin. The head of their household, John Kelly, handed this one down to his family. I learned it from his son James.
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