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Favorite 'happy' or bright sounding tunes tunes

I'll nominate Egans Polka and Maggie in the Woodpile.

# Posted on January 19th 2011 by shanty

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reel: Hunter's House

jig: Minnie Hynd

pretty much any polka in D Major

# Posted on January 19th 2011 by Richard D Cook

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The Boy in the Gaf

# Posted on January 19th 2011 by gam

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Richard D Cook < pretty much any polka in D Major < well done on that one - and a even major key ?

My Favorites are -
Reel's..
"The Sunny Banks"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3oATPyPHe4

Mike McGoldricks Reel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdll-M_wC_o

Jig's..
Second tune here - Bill Collins Jig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0gQQgs0Auk

Biddy from Sligo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zGVIkwWc0g

jim,,,

# Posted on January 19th 2011 by FIDDLE4

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The Muckin' O' Geordie's Byre. It's a classic and it always, always cheers me up to play it.

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1110

# Posted on January 19th 2011 by Red Menace

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I'd say almost anything in the key of A... The Spotted Dog is probably among my top favorites at the moment <3

# Posted on January 19th 2011 by JosephC

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Gam, in keeping with Ireland's transformation from a rural to an urban society, has 'The Boy in the Gap' become 'The Boy in the Gaf'?!

# Posted on January 19th 2011 by amhrán

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Stool of repentance

# Posted on January 19th 2011 by domhnall.

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I like the joyful Paddy Fahy tune which rather puzzlingly appears in the database as "Paddy Fahy's Favourite Orgy Scene".

# Posted on January 19th 2011 by Bernie 29

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http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4597

# Posted on January 19th 2011 by Kenny

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http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2739

# Posted on January 19th 2011 by Kenny

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http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/9058

The Burning Brakes

# Posted on January 19th 2011 by premier

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MacArthur Road Reel. DONE.

# Posted on January 19th 2011 by Zazzaliss

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Haste to the Wedding always reminds me of happy times at ceilidhes.

# Posted on January 19th 2011 by AlBrown

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Or Macarthur road playes as a jig then reel <3

# Posted on January 19th 2011 by fineflautist

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http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1149
maggie brown's favourite

# Posted on January 19th 2011 by 'tinamatt

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The Flowing Tide makes me happy.

# Posted on January 19th 2011 by minijackpot

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Heh, the tunes on the minor thread came easily enough, but I tend not to do happy tunes. Where's oldstrings, who balances out our Sunday session with skippy jigs and polkas when it threatens to get too dark? Having been away from said session for the past weeks, I wonder if anyone's succumbed to sugar coma from all the major tunes.

That said...

Dick Gossip's
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/408

The Merry Blacksmith
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/72

The Morpeth Rant
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1310

My Darling Asleep
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/76

The Wedding Reel
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/518

Spootiskerry
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/857

The Winnipeg Reel
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/8932

Health to the Ladies
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/327

# Posted on January 19th 2011 by Tall, Dark, and Mysterious

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The Merry (!) Blacksmith

# Posted on January 19th 2011 by kuec

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Sleep soond in da Morning

# Posted on January 19th 2011 by redh

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The Christy Barry set

# Posted on January 19th 2011 by justwhistle

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Bluebell Polka!

# Posted on January 19th 2011 by Ebor_fiddler

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Health to the Ladies, there's a great one we haven't played in months and months, I'll have to roll it out next week!

# Posted on January 19th 2011 by AlBrown

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The Kesh, Apples in Winter, Peacock's Feather, The Priest

# Posted on January 20th 2011 by tradguy

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Shamrock Hill, Cherish the Ladies, Frank's Reel, Music in the Glen

# Posted on January 20th 2011 by ElaineT

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Charlie Hunter's, Hills of Tara, Waterman's, Sailor's Delight, Star of Munster, Over the Moor to Maggie, An Phis Fhliuch, Jenny's Welcome Home to Charlie

# Posted on January 20th 2011 by Ben Steen

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Interesting that some people are naming tunes in minor keys or modal tunes as their favourite happy/bright tunes. Goes to show that it's not always Major=happy and minor=sad/pensive.

I just thought of one of the brightest sounding things I can remember at a session:

Foxhunter's Reel in G Major > Foxhunter's Reel in A Major

# Posted on January 20th 2011 by Richard D Cook

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Ciaran Tourish (the tune by Jerry Holland & Dougie Macdonald) reel.

# Posted on January 20th 2011 by Solidmahog

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Richard ~
"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy,
which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
W B Yeats

http://www.mcgee-flutes.com/Getting_the_hard_dark_tone.htm

# Posted on January 20th 2011 by Ben Steen

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The Trip Home (The Homecoming, The Welcome Home)
Repeal The Poll Tax
The Sunshine Hornpipe
Tuolpagorni
Glen Allen

Warm sunshine on rippling water, all of these...(!)

# Posted on January 21st 2011 by nicholas

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Just want to second The Boy In The Gap, and add The Boy In The Boat.

# Posted on January 21st 2011 by Atahualpa Quigley

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The good natured man - hornpipe
Sharon Shannon also played one called the Happy One Step.

BM

# Posted on January 24th 2011 by bmckim