Myrdhin wrote this wonderful gavotte for the Dinan Harp Festival in Brittany which he ran with his partner Zil. Rencontre is the name for the week of harp classes that go alongside the festival and although the tune has a strong Breton flavour to it, this arrangement would probably be more at home in a Tom & Jerry cartoon...
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from The Butterfly,
released January 1, 2004
By Myrdhin (Harpenciel)
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