I don't have one, yet. I will eventually, but what is everyone playing?
Why those tunes? Special meaning to any of them?
Do your own versions, compose your own songs?
Write lyrics for any of them?
What is your set list?
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The_Celtic_Bard
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What is your set list?
Why build character when you already are one?
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Ours will seem a bit mad, and a couple will only make sense to those Americans who have somehow been exposed to Benny Hill and Morecambe and Wise...
Meet Me on the Corner
Proud Mary
Bad Moon Rising
Brown-Eyed Girl
Fat Bottomed Girls
Sharp Dressed Man
Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
Blue Moon of Kentucky
Stray Cat Strut
Promised Land
Rockabilly Rebel
Just for Kicks
My Old Man's a Dustman
La Bamba
Runaround Sue
Dirty Old Town
Wild Rover
Country Roads
Jambalaya
Green Green Grass of Home
Feel Like Makin' Love
Moondance
At the Hop
Ernie
Bring Me Sunshine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZedhoqYdfTM)
Stand By Your Man
Sittin' on Top of the World
King of the Road
Hello Mary Lou
There Ain't No Pleasing You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkKGO1QvcKo)
A couple of YouTube URLs there to demonstrate some influences!
The 'band' is a kind of random part time assemblage of middle-aged bikers and anarchists. There are usually about 9 of us on stage. It's just a laugh, a kind of sub-Hayseed Dixie trip...
As much time is spent on gags and messing about as on playing songs.
Meet Me on the Corner
Proud Mary
Bad Moon Rising
Brown-Eyed Girl
Fat Bottomed Girls
Sharp Dressed Man
Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
Blue Moon of Kentucky
Stray Cat Strut
Promised Land
Rockabilly Rebel
Just for Kicks
My Old Man's a Dustman
La Bamba
Runaround Sue
Dirty Old Town
Wild Rover
Country Roads
Jambalaya
Green Green Grass of Home
Feel Like Makin' Love
Moondance
At the Hop
Ernie
Bring Me Sunshine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZedhoqYdfTM)
Stand By Your Man
Sittin' on Top of the World
King of the Road
Hello Mary Lou
There Ain't No Pleasing You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkKGO1QvcKo)
A couple of YouTube URLs there to demonstrate some influences!
The 'band' is a kind of random part time assemblage of middle-aged bikers and anarchists. There are usually about 9 of us on stage. It's just a laugh, a kind of sub-Hayseed Dixie trip...
As much time is spent on gags and messing about as on playing songs.
And whether the blood be highland, lowland or no.
And whether the skin be black or white as the snow.
Of kith and of kin we are one, be it right, be it wrong.
As long as our hearts beat true to the lilt of a song.
And whether the skin be black or white as the snow.
Of kith and of kin we are one, be it right, be it wrong.
As long as our hearts beat true to the lilt of a song.
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Redwolf
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At the moment, it's heavily balanced toward Christmas music (with a few other tunes to round things out), and almost entirely on harp. So far...
What Child is This/Greensleeves (two versions...one I play solo on and one for which I play accompaniment)
Silent Night
Coventry Carol (accompaniment)
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence/Pickardy
Away in a Manger (American tune)
Blessed Be That Maid Marie
The First Nowell
Angels We Have Heard On High
The Christ Child's Lullabye (play and sing)
Carolan's Welcome
Planxty Irwin
Brian Boru's March
Toutorig (Breton Lullabye) -- accompaniment
The Ash Grove (my own arrangement!)
Searching for lambs
My partner has a few other Christmas pieces under her strings for which I'll probably just play chords...or perhaps play melody on the whistle. All together, we have about a 1/2 hour's worth of music, I think, which should do for the gigs we have this month.
I'm also working on arrangements of a few Swedish tunes for a Santa Lucia celebration at my church, but I'm hampered by the fact that they can't tell me yet if I'm playing accompaniment or lead! That may or may not go down...I've already told them I won't play if I don't have enough lead time to arrange these and practice them sufficiently.
I also have a raft of vocal music to learn for the Irish choral concert with Mary McLaughlin. Most of it is pretty much there, but I'm working ultra hard on some harmony parts, as I'm singing in the small ensemble this year, as well as in the choir. BTW, if any of you happen to be in Santa Cruz on December 8 or 9, this is going to be an amazing concert! Nearly two hours of Irish Christmas music, some a capella, some accompanied with harp or percussion, in the beautiful gaslit sanctuary of Santa Cruz's oldest church (for those who read the Christmas pageant thread, don't worry...we've fixed the gaslights!)
Redwolf
What Child is This/Greensleeves (two versions...one I play solo on and one for which I play accompaniment)
Silent Night
Coventry Carol (accompaniment)
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence/Pickardy
Away in a Manger (American tune)
Blessed Be That Maid Marie
The First Nowell
Angels We Have Heard On High
The Christ Child's Lullabye (play and sing)
Carolan's Welcome
Planxty Irwin
Brian Boru's March
Toutorig (Breton Lullabye) -- accompaniment
The Ash Grove (my own arrangement!)
Searching for lambs
My partner has a few other Christmas pieces under her strings for which I'll probably just play chords...or perhaps play melody on the whistle. All together, we have about a 1/2 hour's worth of music, I think, which should do for the gigs we have this month.
I'm also working on arrangements of a few Swedish tunes for a Santa Lucia celebration at my church, but I'm hampered by the fact that they can't tell me yet if I'm playing accompaniment or lead! That may or may not go down...I've already told them I won't play if I don't have enough lead time to arrange these and practice them sufficiently.
I also have a raft of vocal music to learn for the Irish choral concert with Mary McLaughlin. Most of it is pretty much there, but I'm working ultra hard on some harmony parts, as I'm singing in the small ensemble this year, as well as in the choir. BTW, if any of you happen to be in Santa Cruz on December 8 or 9, this is going to be an amazing concert! Nearly two hours of Irish Christmas music, some a capella, some accompanied with harp or percussion, in the beautiful gaslit sanctuary of Santa Cruz's oldest church (for those who read the Christmas pageant thread, don't worry...we've fixed the gaslights!)
Redwolf
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...agus déanfaidh mé do mholadh ar an gcruit a Dhia, a Dhia liom!
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Awesome set lists guys, has either one of you heard Boats and Birds By Gregory and the Hawk, take a look at it http://youtube.com/watch?v=Pz5H3iVjAlw
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Your list is very impressive, Buddhu. I like it.buddhu wrote:Ours will seem a bit mad,
I am a little suprised though that you neglected to include two huge American standards "Swannee" and "Jimmie Cracked Corn".
[I never know if its "Jimmie" or "Gimme"].So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
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Well we're doing the Italian bagpipe Christmas act these days; that set goes like this:
Carnival of Venice
Novena from Abruzzi
Rondo Tarantella
Pastorella Calabrese
O Virginella
Quanno Nascente Nino
Siciliana
Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle
Piva, Piva.
On the GHB, this week has featured:
Come Ye Thankful People Come
We gather together
Come thou almighty king
along with some St. Andrew's oriented tunes;
Flower of Scotland, Scotland the brave, etc
the usual funeral rubbish;
Chi Mi Na Mor Bheanna
Leaving Lochboisdale
Fear a Bhata, etc, etc, etc
OOH! this week I can do "In the Deep Midwinter' ..'cos it's cold!
the usual wedding rubbish:
The Conundrum, Susan MacLeod,
Green grow the Laurels, Pidgeon on the Gate,
and that song that goes: 'to think I was a sailor and a maiden all the while'
which I never got the real title to,
Youghal Harbour, Brose + Butter,
& if they'er a Irish-leaning couple they get the jigs:
The Big Ship, Within a mile of dublin, Simon' s Banger, Rocking the baby, Jig of slurs, Garryowen, Irish washerwoman, Rory Gallagher's, Banjo Breakdown, Turf Lodge.
that sort of thing.
Next week I have to play tunes out of the Methodist hymnal on Uilleann.
Seroiusly, though, I spend A LOT of time working out sets, tinkering with them, timing them, etc...it's positively crucial!
Carnival of Venice
Novena from Abruzzi
Rondo Tarantella
Pastorella Calabrese
O Virginella
Quanno Nascente Nino
Siciliana
Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle
Piva, Piva.
On the GHB, this week has featured:
Come Ye Thankful People Come
We gather together
Come thou almighty king
along with some St. Andrew's oriented tunes;
Flower of Scotland, Scotland the brave, etc
the usual funeral rubbish;
Chi Mi Na Mor Bheanna
Leaving Lochboisdale
Fear a Bhata, etc, etc, etc
OOH! this week I can do "In the Deep Midwinter' ..'cos it's cold!
the usual wedding rubbish:
The Conundrum, Susan MacLeod,
Green grow the Laurels, Pidgeon on the Gate,
and that song that goes: 'to think I was a sailor and a maiden all the while'
which I never got the real title to,
Youghal Harbour, Brose + Butter,
& if they'er a Irish-leaning couple they get the jigs:
The Big Ship, Within a mile of dublin, Simon' s Banger, Rocking the baby, Jig of slurs, Garryowen, Irish washerwoman, Rory Gallagher's, Banjo Breakdown, Turf Lodge.
that sort of thing.
Next week I have to play tunes out of the Methodist hymnal on Uilleann.
Seroiusly, though, I spend A LOT of time working out sets, tinkering with them, timing them, etc...it's positively crucial!