what are your favorite tunes to play right now?
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Miwokhill
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what are your favorite tunes to play right now?
Just wondering if you'd like to share with everyone what are your favorite tunes for playing at the moment?-- I could probably list 50 favorite tunes but if I had to come up with 3 right now they would be Banish Misfortune, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, and The Poor Scholar. These are all in the 121 Favorite Session Tunes book, and no doubt lots of other places, but that was my source for learning them on the whistle. -mike
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- Tell us something.: I used to be a regular then I took up the bassoon. Bassoons don't have a lot of chiff. Not really, I have always been a drummer, and my C&F years were when I was a little tired of the drums. Now I'm back playing drums. I mist the C&F years, though.
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The Dimmers--like they play in on the Lunasa CD
Foxhunter's reel
Sligo Maid
Monaghan jig
Actually, these are tunes that I'm learning right now, so I'm playing them the most. I like Monaghan and Dimmers the most of those.
Foxhunter's reel
Sligo Maid
Monaghan jig
Actually, these are tunes that I'm learning right now, so I'm playing them the most. I like Monaghan and Dimmers the most of those.
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"Meon an phobail a thogail trid an chultur"
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Ships Are Sailing is one I've just learned. It's a great reel.
Paddy Raferty's Favorite is another great reel on flute or whistle.
The Jig of Slurs is a wonderful jig, also I've finally made myself sit down and learn the Blackthorn Stick.
Mainly these days I'm focusing on learning the tunes that we play in session which I don't know by heart yet.
--James
By the way, Jen is a really solid whistler. Usually if she's at the session I can pick up the tune by following her fingers.
Paddy Raferty's Favorite is another great reel on flute or whistle.
The Jig of Slurs is a wonderful jig, also I've finally made myself sit down and learn the Blackthorn Stick.
Mainly these days I'm focusing on learning the tunes that we play in session which I don't know by heart yet.
--James
By the way, Jen is a really solid whistler. Usually if she's at the session I can pick up the tune by following her fingers.
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- Tell us something.: I used to be a regular then I took up the bassoon. Bassoons don't have a lot of chiff. Not really, I have always been a drummer, and my C&F years were when I was a little tired of the drums. Now I'm back playing drums. I mist the C&F years, though.
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I'm learning Calliope House too, in a set with Munster Buttermilk which has killer high A and B rolls (which I'm already weak on) leading into cut A's and B's respectively. Plus I have to wear ear protection for the B part.jen f wrote:I just learned Calliope House, and I can't seem to get it out of my head! I also like to play Foxhunter's Jig and Donneybrook Fair.
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Slow Road to East China / The Pink Ribbon Reel (set)
Kiss the Maid Behind the Barrel
Michael Reilly's (aka Twilight in Portroe in G) / Paddy Jim Frank's (set)
Kiss the Maid Behind the Barrel
Michael Reilly's (aka Twilight in Portroe in G) / Paddy Jim Frank's (set)
Sol's Tunes (new tune 2/2020)
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favites of the minute
Blarney Pilgrm, The Road to Durrow and Her Golden Hair Hanging Down Her Back
Chuck
Chuck
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Cayden
The favourites are the ones that have been around forever but are still fresh and enjoyable, the ones you know intimately the ones you have sniffed every corner of. Too many though to call.
Being played today though are Mike Carney's version of the Reel of Bogie, Snow on the Hills, Willie Clancy's version of The Satin Slipper, Paddy Carty's version of Harvest Moon which was played at a session I was in last saturday and, by association, Ed Reevey's Johnny McGoohan. Also, Joe Cooley's take on the second Crowley's, Imelda Roland, Paddy Breen's, the Hills of Coore for what was lost, Fitzgerald's hornpipe as recorded during the 50s by Paddy Cronin and a rake of others.
Being played today though are Mike Carney's version of the Reel of Bogie, Snow on the Hills, Willie Clancy's version of The Satin Slipper, Paddy Carty's version of Harvest Moon which was played at a session I was in last saturday and, by association, Ed Reevey's Johnny McGoohan. Also, Joe Cooley's take on the second Crowley's, Imelda Roland, Paddy Breen's, the Hills of Coore for what was lost, Fitzgerald's hornpipe as recorded during the 50s by Paddy Cronin and a rake of others.
