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| Our Current Set ListJust a selection from our current favourites:Ah Robin -- Early English song, a cappella 3-part harmony Allemande, Quatre Bransles -- Susato Argeers -- Playford Ballydesmond Polka, Matt Teehan's Polka -- 2 Irish tunes Barren Rocks of Aden -- Irish 32 bar polka Black Nag -- Playford Blaydon Races, When Johnny Comes Marching Home -- 32 bar jigs Barsebak Polka -- Swedish Bear Dance -- Flemish (maybe!) dance tune, fun dance for breaking the ice at ceilidhs Because he was a Bonny Lad, Sweet Nancy -- 32 bar reels Belle qui tiens ma vie -- Arbeau Bung your eye -- 32 bar jig, good tune, weird title! Ca Ira -- not sure where this one comes from but it's a cracking good tune! Cappamore Polka, Maurice Manley's Polka -- Irish trad. Childgrove -- Playford Circassian Circle -- 32 bar reel, nice played as a hornpipe for a 'step hop' dance Cotillon -- stately dance tune 40 bars Cuckoo's Nest -- our arrangement of the Welsh and Bledington Morris variants of this tune Da Slockit Light -- Tom Anderson, Shetland fiddler Dan O'Keefe's Slide -- 32 bar double jig Dan the Cobbler -- 32 bar Irish jig Davy Knick Knack, Hesleyside -- 32 bar reels from the North East of England Dingle Regatta -- 48 bar Irish jig Donnybrook Fair -- Irish trad. Devil or No Devil -- 32 bar Irish jig Duke of Kent's Waltz -- Kentish Hop Eklunda Polska -- trad. Swedish polka Fiery Clock Face -- 32 bar English jig from Newcastle (Click to Listen) Flat Bush Waltz -- Klezmer waltz, very atmospheric! Gardebylaten and Appelbolaten -- Swedish walking tunes Gathering Peascods -- Playford Give Me Your Hand -- Rory Dall O'Caithain, 17th Century Irish Go From My Window -- Early English song (Peter vocals) Gussie, Maggie in the Wood -- 32 bar polkas Halfe Hannikin -- the Playford dance tune our band was (sort of) named after Horses Bransle -- (pronounced brawl) Arbeau Humours of Ballyloughlin -- Irish trad. Hunt the Squirrel -- Playford Jacky Tar -- played at the same time as Drunken Sailor Jenny Pluck Pears -- Playford 1st Ed. 1651 Joan's Placket -- Playford Just as the Tide was Flowing -- Northumbrian folk song Keel Row, Ka-Foo-Zalum -- 2 good Northumbrian dance tunes King of the Fairies -- trad. Irish Kettle Drum -- Playford Lady Catherine Ogle -- Playford Lavender's Blue, Water of Tyne, My Rose in June -- a lovely set for the Veleta Leaving Lismore -- not Lismore in Ireland, this one's Scottish Les Filles de Mon Pays -- (girls of my country. From the Auvergne) Loth to Depart, A Toye -- Giles Farnaby Lovely Joan, Greensleeves, Scarborough Fair -- trad. English Mazurka de Gilles Chabenat -- lovely 32-bar French mazurka Mazurka a Rigal & Mazurka Limousin -- two more 32-bar French mazurkas McPherson's Lament -- Scottish Mermaid -- trad. English folk song Michael Turner's Waltz -- Mozart wrote this one, or did he? My Love She's But a Lassie Yet, Jamie Allen -- 32 bar reels Nancy Dawson, Quaker's Wife, Feathers -- our favourite 32 bar set Never Love Thee More -- Scottish slow air New Round O -- Playford 12th Ed. 1703 Northern Lass -- a tune we learnt from the Greg Stephens and Crookfinger Jack CD Orange In Bloom -- another Morris tune, the Sherborne variant Orkney Rope Waltz, The Gentle Maiden -- two lovely 32 bar waltzes Parson's Farewell -- Playford 1st Ed. 1651 Pawles Wharf, Giles Farnaby's Dreame, His Rest (Galliard) -- Giles Farnaby Planxty Irwin, Planxty Fanny Power -- Irish (Carolan) Prince Rupert's March -- Playford Rattling Bog -- not sure of the origin, maybe Irish maybe English Red House -- Playford Roddy McCorley -- Irish Saint Martin's -- Playford Saith Nos Olau -- 16 bar Welsh 'jig' Sellenger's Round -- William Byrd (from My Lady Neville's Book) Si beg, Si Mohr -- O'Carolan waltz South Wind -- 32 bar Irish slow waltz Sweet Jenny Jones -- another lovely Welsh tune, this time a waltz Sweets of May -- 48 bar jig Tower Hill, Put up They Dagger Jemmy, Tell Me Daphne -- Giles Farnaby Tralee Gaol and Peat Fire Flame -- Irish trad. Winster Gallop -- good tune for the dance Gallopede Within a Mile of Dublin -- 32 bar Irish reel For More Information Contact: |
