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T:Josephine's Reel
C:James Barry
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L:1/8
R:Reel
N:Josephine was the name of his eldest daughter.
B: James Barry music manuscript collection (No. 7, p. 6)
N: Barry (1819-1905) was a miller and fiddler who lived at
N:Six Mile Brook, Pictou County, Nova Scotia.
F: https://jamesbarrymusic.ca
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JOSEPHINE'S REEL. Canadian, Reel (cut time). Canada, Nova Scotia. C Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Josephine's Reel" was composed by dairy farmer, miller, sometime printer and bookbinder and fiddler James Barry (1819-1906) of Six Mile Brook, Pictou County, northern Nova Scotia. Barry named it for his eldest daughter (born around 1862), his favorite in the family and the person he doted on. Unfortunately, Barry's marriage (to Isabella "Bell" MacLennan) was not a particularly happy one, and after a decade they were largely estranged. They managed to produce children, however, including Josephine and her younger sister Elizabeth (b. 1867).
Additional notes
See also listing at : See James Barry's music manuscript [1]
