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Flute player Brian Miller of Saint Paul, Minnesota gave me this lovely reel. I renamed it ‘The Marshy Meadow’ because of the imagery that engulfed my mind when hearing Brian play it. ‘Kennedy’s’ is the name which Brian continues to use as a means of recalling its melody.
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