Milwaukee Slow Session Sets

Here are a few sets of standard traditional tunes we'll focus on getting under our fingers during the monthly tune swap and slow session. It's our goal to play these sets during every slow session so everyone has a collective set of tunes to learn and work on. There will be more sets played, of course, but these are a good place to start at any rate! Click on the links to listen to version from the Comhaltas Foinn Seisiun recordings or slow versions recorded for the session specifically. Sets of the tune swap tunes will eventually be made available as well.

Jigs:

Lilting Banshee*/ Kesh*/ My Darling Asleep*

Connaughtman's Rambles*/ Jim Ward's*

Reels:

Old Concertina*/ Miss McLeod's*

Sally Gardens*/ Silver Spear*

Polkas:

Cuz's/ Kerry*

Ballydesmond #2*/ Ballydesmond #1*/ Britches Full of Stitches (A major)

Hornpipes:

Off to California*/ Rights of Man*/ Harvest Home*

Slip Jigs:

Fig for a Kiss/ Boys of Ballisodare

Notes:

* denotes links available from the Comhaltas Foinn Seisiun collection, available from the Comhaltas website.

Tune Swap Tunes:
May 2nd, 2008: "Humours of Tralibane" (jig)
June 7th, 2008: "Geese in the Bog" (jig)
July 5th, 2008: "Lady on the Island" (reel)
August 2nd, 2008: "West Clare" (reel)
September 6th, 2008: "Paper Plate" (slide)
October 4th, 2008: "Marty Fahey's Fingers" by Cuz Teehan (slide)
December 13, 2008: "Shoe the Donkey" and "Sonny's Mazurka" (mazurkas)
January 3, 2009: "Thrush in the Straw" (jig)
February 14, 2009: "My Love and I in the Garden" (reel)
April 4, 2009: "Roaring Mary" (reel)
May 2, 2009: "Boys of Ballisodare" (slip jig)

For more information, contact Jeff Ksiazek: jeff@irishmusicarchive.com
Check out our events calendar for future tune swap dates!

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