This is where you’ll find links to audio files of the tunes we’ve learned in the session. Left-click to open in a new tab or window. Right-click and select “save file as” to download to your computer.
As the list gets longer, it’ll be harder to find specific tunes–to find one, type CTRL+F to open the find tool (COMMAND+F on Mac) and type the title of the tune, or any part of the title, in the search box.
(***A SPECIAL NOTE TO NEWCOMERS–our tune list is pretty long–check out the SETS tab for sets of tunes we are sure to play at each session! Now you don’t have to guess which tunes to learn!***)
RECORDINGS FROM OUR FIRST WORKSHOP “FROM HERE TO NYAH.”
Amand Aromin demonstrates pulse bowing on “O the Britches Full of Stitches”
Armand further demos pulse bowing on “Jenny Picking Cockles”
BONUS:
Rolling in the Ryegrass (slower)
Na Ceannabháin Bána slipjig (slower)
Tripping Up the Stairs (slower)
Star Above the Garter slide (slower)
Star Above the Garter / Lisheen Slide @ dance speed
The Whinny Hills of Leitrim slipjig
The Whinny Hills of Leitrim sllipjig (slower)
The Wind that Shakes the Barley reel
The Wind that Shakes the Barley reel (slower)
Redican’s Mother slipjig (slower)
The Road to Lisdoovarna reel (slower)
Flower of the Flock reel (slower)
Kitty Lie Over (The Frost is All Over) jig
Kitty Lie Over (The Frost is All Over) jig (slower)
Rathawaun/Hare in the Corn slides
Hare in the Corn slide (slower)
BONUSES:
for you fiddlers–Last Night’s Fun ‘B’ part variants
Last Night’s Fun ‘B’ part variants (slower)
an unpracticed run at the Trip to Athlone jig
the same Trip to Athlone, slowed down some
Munster Buttermilk jig (slower)
Kilcooley Wood hornpipe (box, slower)
Kilcooley wood hornpipe (flute)
Kilcooley Wood hornpipe (flute, slower)
Kitty Gone a-Milking reel (slower)
Tatter Jack Walsh jig (An t-Athair Jack Walsh)
Tatter Jack Walsh jig (An t-Athair Jack Walsh) (slower)
The Ashplant/Kitty Gone a-Milking (reels)
Eddie Duffy’s barndance (slower)
The Gatehouse Maid reel (slower)
I buried My Wife and Danced On Top of Her Grave jig
I buried My Wife and Danced On Top of Her Grave jig (slower)
The Promanade hop jig (slower)
BONUS: The Butterfly (as a slip jig, then as the hop jig IT IS MEANT TO BE!!! lol)
My Love is in America reel (slower)
Old Hag You Have Killed Me jig
Old Hag You Have Killed Me jig (slower)
The Lilting Banshee jig (slower)
BONUS: Alternate B part for Tripping Up the Stairs jig
The same, with verbal explanation preceding
The Hole in the Hedge jig (slower)
O The Britches Full of Stitches polka
O The Britches Full of Stitches polka (slower)
Egan’s/Britches played as a set
Egan’s/Britches played as a set (slower)
The (other) Ballydesmond polka
The (other) Ballydesmond Polka (slower)
The Ballydesmond Polka set (slower)
The Chaffpool Post Barndance (slower)
Tommy People’s Mazurka (slower)
The Eel in the Sink reel (slower)
Gander in the Pratie Hole jig (slower)
Bonus set: Pipe on the Hob/Geese in the Bog/Gander in the Pratie Hole
Jenny Picking Cockles reel (slower)
Connaughtman’s Rambles jig (slower)
The Job of Journeywork set dance
The Job of Journeywork set dance (slower)
Mickey Callaghan’s (Patsy Geary’s) slide
Mickey Callaghan’s (Patsy Geary’s) slide (slower)
Arragh Mountains slipjig (slower)
BONUS:
The Silver Spear Reel (slower)
Down the Back Lane Jig (slower)
The Lilting Fisherman jig (slower)
Lucy Farr’s barndance (slower)
The Broken Pledge Reel (slower)
BONUS–Bó Mhín na Toitean march
Fitzgerald’s Hornpipe (slower)
Mrs. Crotty’s Hornpipe (slower)
The Breeches Buttoned On polka
The Breeches Buttoned On polka (slower)
The Snowy Path slip jig (slower)
BONUS:
BONUS SET:
The Whistler at the wake/The Old Flail
The Humors of Tulla reel (fast)
The Humors of Tulla reel (medium, by special request)
The Humors of Tulla reel (slower)
The Smiling Bride alternate part A ending
The Handsome Young Maid (slower)
The Whistler at the Wake (medium speed)
The Whistler at the Wake (slower)
My Mind Will Never Be Easy (slower)
(sorry no faster versions this time)
The Drunken Landlady (w/ The Long Drop)
Chief O’Neill’s Favorite (slower)
BONUS SET:
The Mountain Road/The Fermoy Lasses/Sporting Paddy
Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (slower)
The Kerryman’s Daughter (two Bs)
The Kerryman’s Daughter (one B)
The Kerryman’s Daughter (slower)
Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine (slower)
The Ballyvourney polka (slower)
Top of the Maol polka (slower)
Christy Barry’s #2 (The Butlers of Glen Avenue)
Christy Barry’s #2 (The Butler’s of Glen Avenue) slower
The Battle of Aughrim (slower)
BONUS: The Battle of Aughrim/Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (march set)
Anthony Frawley’s jig (slower)
BONUSES:
The Cameronian (with Baltimore area variations)
Maid in the Cherry Tree (slower)
The King of the Fairies (slower)
Give Us A Drink of Water (slower)
The Swaggering Slip Jig (slower)
Fasten the Leg in Her (slower)
O’Connell’s Trip to Parliament
O’Connell’s Trip to Parliament (slower)
The Priest in His Boots (slower)
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About Morrison’s, from thesession.org, “More notes on the origin
Tom Carmody, who played accordion in Morrison’s band, tells this story of its origin:
“Jim was up at my house the night before we were to go to the studio, and I played him this jig. Jim asked me where I had got it from and I told him it was my father’s jig called ‘The Stick Across the Hob’. Jim asked me to play it again and he wrote it down as I played, then he got the fiddle and played it off. “I will put that on record tomorrow”, he said, and we’ll call it Maurice Carmody’s Favourite”.
From “The James Morrison Story”
http://www.morrison.ie/Story.htm
Very interesting. That thesession.org is damn useful, even if it is a bunch of grumpy musicians quibbling over tune settings and such most of the time.
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