I don't if this thread will succeed but I've nothing to loose. I just want to be reminded/introduced to some good bloody tunes. I know this is completely subjective and thats why its going to be difficult to kick this one off. I'm talking of stuff like these
Boy on the Hilltop
The Galway Reel (Larry Redican)
Lomanach Cross
King of the Clans
Love at the Endings
Merry Days of Easter
Shepherd's Daughter
Mullingar Races
Thats a select few of many. But I'm in a rut of playing the same tunes over and over for the past while and I'm sure there's some still about that I've just got to be reminded of. Go on, let me hear what you guys have got on offer!
Sliabh Russell
Otter's Holt
Roaring Barmaid
Haunted House
Terry (cuz) Teehan's
Inisheer
Wedding Reel
Dunmore Lassies
Fermoy Lassies
Itchy Fingers
O'Carolan's Welcome
King of the Fairies
and a sh*t load more that aren't right at the top of my brain at the moment.......
Humours of Ballyloughlin
The Green Mountain
Garech's Wedding
The Kerry Fling
The Rainy Day
The Old Favourite
Christmas Eve
The Choice Wife
Garret Barry's
Rose in the Heather
The Bucks of Oranmore
etc...
Trip to Nenagh
The Curlew
My Maryanne
Castle Kelly
Bobby Casey's Jig
Lucy Campbell
John McGrath's
Music in the Glen
Humours of Lissadell
Flowers of Limerick
Poll Ha'penny
Leitrim Fancy
OK another thread with lists of tunes.
Boy on the Hilltop and shephreds daughter; Poll Ha'penny maybe, are tunes I recognise as underplayed at sessions but fvkken brill Poll Ha'penny, LCampells are great but actually quite common, and which Leitrim fancy do you mean?
My little fave at pres is the Blackthorn -- the reel (not that dumb blackthorhsticksh*t that is played at every Effen scottish weddingon) played on the box a la Joe Cooley, the best tribute we could do is to try & play it like him but advance it with ones own interpretation. That's my ongoing box project.
I meant the hornpipe. LCampbells and Poll Ha'penny are not so common around here. But, as the title of this thread says, they are just good tunes whether or not they are common.
Garrett Barry's Reel and the Tarbolton have been two of my favourites since I first started playing Irish music. I love Garrett Barry's Reel so much that I've played it at almost every session I've been to, in the hope that someone else will join in, but nobody ever knows it.
My current favourites are:
Over the Moor to Maggie (common, I know, but still great)
The Humours of Loughrea (a la the Bothy Band)
O'Rourke's reel (a la Paddy Keenan)
I realised before I started this thread, that it was completely subjective and may end up as "another tune list thread." But, the point behind this thread was that I wanted to get some tunes you guys really liked so that I could play some that I haven't played in years. Humours of Loughrea is one anyway. Very good flute tune.
Just good tunes
Just good tunes
I don't if this thread will succeed but I've nothing to loose. I just want to be reminded/introduced to some good bloody tunes. I know this is completely subjective and thats why its going to be difficult to kick this one off. I'm talking of stuff like these
Boy on the Hilltop
The Galway Reel (Larry Redican)
Lomanach Cross
King of the Clans
Love at the Endings
Merry Days of Easter
Shepherd's Daughter
Mullingar Races
Thats a select few of many. But I'm in a rut of playing the same tunes over and over for the past while and I'm sure there's some still about that I've just got to be reminded of. Go on, let me hear what you guys have got on offer!
# Posted on June 25th 2009 by 52Paddy
Re: Just good tunes
I've never played any of those!!
# Posted on June 25th 2009 by Bredna
Re: Just good tunes
Sliabh Russell
Otter's Holt
Roaring Barmaid
Haunted House
Terry (cuz) Teehan's
Inisheer
Wedding Reel
Dunmore Lassies
Fermoy Lassies
Itchy Fingers
O'Carolan's Welcome
King of the Fairies
and a sh*t load more that aren't right at the top of my brain at the moment.......
# Posted on June 25th 2009 by Bredna
Re: Just good tunes
Ah the Wedding Reel and the Dunmore Lasses. Its been a while
# Posted on June 25th 2009 by 52Paddy
Re: Just good tunes
Humours of Ballyloughlin
The Green Mountain
Garech's Wedding
The Kerry Fling
The Rainy Day
The Old Favourite
Christmas Eve
The Choice Wife
Garret Barry's
Rose in the Heather
The Bucks of Oranmore
etc...
# Posted on June 25th 2009 by Tasia
Re: Just good tunes
What instrument do you play?
# Posted on June 25th 2009 by gam
Re: Just good tunes
Trip to Nenagh
The Curlew
My Maryanne
Castle Kelly
Bobby Casey's Jig
Lucy Campbell
John McGrath's
Music in the Glen
Humours of Lissadell
Flowers of Limerick
Poll Ha'penny
Leitrim Fancy
# Posted on June 25th 2009 by tacoman
Re: Just good tunes
OK another thread with lists of tunes.
Boy on the Hilltop and shephreds daughter; Poll Ha'penny maybe, are tunes I recognise as underplayed at sessions but fvkken brill Poll Ha'penny, LCampells are great but actually quite common, and which Leitrim fancy do you mean?
My little fave at pres is the Blackthorn -- the reel (not that dumb blackthorhsticksh*t that is played at every Effen scottish weddingon) played on the box a la Joe Cooley, the best tribute we could do is to try & play it like him but advance it with ones own interpretation. That's my ongoing box project.
# Posted on June 26th 2009 by Nick Splease
Re: Just good tunes
I meant the hornpipe. LCampbells and Poll Ha'penny are not so common around here. But, as the title of this thread says, they are just good tunes whether or not they are common.
# Posted on June 26th 2009 by tacoman
Re: Just good tunes
Garrett Barry's Reel and the Tarbolton have been two of my favourites since I first started playing Irish music. I love Garrett Barry's Reel so much that I've played it at almost every session I've been to, in the hope that someone else will join in, but nobody ever knows it.
My current favourites are:
Over the Moor to Maggie (common, I know, but still great)
The Humours of Loughrea (a la the Bothy Band)
O'Rourke's reel (a la Paddy Keenan)
# Posted on June 26th 2009 by Craic Addict
Re: Just good tunes
All time fave of mine-Out on the Ocean.
# Posted on June 26th 2009 by AlBrown
Re: Just good tunes
for me, it's the Humours of Ennistymon.
# Posted on June 26th 2009 by Greg the Piano Tuner
Re: Just good tunes
That set The Tarbolton, The Longford Collector and The Sailor's Bonnet, associated with the London scene in the 50s / 60s.
# Posted on June 26th 2009 by nicholas
Re: Just good tunes
I realised before I started this thread, that it was completely subjective and may end up as "another tune list thread." But, the point behind this thread was that I wanted to get some tunes you guys really liked so that I could play some that I haven't played in years. Humours of Loughrea is one anyway. Very good flute tune.
# Posted on June 28th 2009 by 52Paddy
Re: Just good tunes
The Liffey Banks
Lord McDonald's/Ballinasloe Fair
Sailing into Walpole's Marsh
First House in Connaught
Last House in Connaught
O'Dowd's #9
I am trying to think of other tunes I have played countless times and never mind playing them again and again.
Doctor O'Neill's
Sally Lennon's
# Posted on June 30th 2009 by Jode
Re: Just good tunes
looking for fishponds
the real mckay wedding
hulls reel
the reconciliation
hamnaeteng (wrongly spelt!)
# Posted on July 2nd 2009 by Kirsten Forsyth