Contra dance/Irish/Old Time tune jam session

We meet on the third Saturday of June for our regular jam session where we play primarily contra dance tunes, Irish and old time songs. Bluegrass, gospel and other acoustic music are certainly welcome, we just tend towards the tunes in our tune book and the "Carpilation" book from the Carp Camp at Winfield.

Join this group and look in the files area to see sheet music and midi files for our regular tunes.

Here are the tunes we played in May:

Soldiers Joy
St. Ann's Reel
Whiskey Before breakfast - sung first, instrumental second
Bill Cheatham
Red Haired Boy
Exile of Erin
Hewlett
Star of Munster
Glass Island Reel
Reel of Mullinavat
Stars for Liesbeth
The Gale
Workin' on the Building
Flowers of Edinburgh
Ger the Rigger
John Ryan's Polka
Mouth of the Tobique
Morrison's Jig
Celebrated Opera Reel
Morpeth Rant
Cherokee Shuffle (in A)
The Zipper
Liberty
Woodchopper's Reel
Fisher's Hornpipe
Tennessee Waltz
The Cliff's of Moher
Cold Frosty Morning
The Road to Lisdoonvarna
Jump at the Sun
Big Scioty
Lovers Waltz

We had four mandolins, two bases, one squeezebox, a hammered dulcimer, three guitars, three fiddles, flute, viola and bodhraan - with some doubling up.

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