"Endearing young charms"

My go-to waltz...

yep. been playing the beatles, "yesterday". they did it in F. I like it in B flat on fiddle.

also Sam Rizetta's Healing Springs. I used to sit by Sam at a jam in Sheperdstown WV when I lived in the area. We had similar tastes...connecting old time fiddle music with 'new age' sounds.

Reviving this thread.... I'm in a mixolydian mood lately, so I'm working on polishing up some of that endless list of Dmix reels and jigs:
The Old Bush
I Buried My Wife and Danced on Her Grave
The Frieze Britches
The Humours of Ballyloughlin
Farewell to Connaught
The Gooseberry Bush
Old Hag You Have Killed Me

(There's no accounting for some of these tune names)

What are some of your favorite Dmix tunes?

Whoa Jon, I literally just sat down after playing Old Bush/Spike Island Lasses!

At our (free) gig last week I led “buried my wife/ byrne’s favorite / morrison’s”, it seemed to go over well :-)

Love all your tunes … I haven’t learned Frieze Britches yet but heard it played beautifully on mando, which made me put it on my list!

Still working on Farewell to Ireland. next fiddle lesson is Monday night and I feel fairly ready, although I still forget a few notes here and there.

I am not good at key ID, but the new guitar player wants us to start shouting out keys…so I guess I will need to learn!!

That’s my update I guess. :-)

At this point I can manage to shout a single syllable, no more. So "D-mixolydian" would be beyond me...the guitar player just has to figure it out!

Spike Island Lasses - that's a powerful tune, one of my favorites, but I haven't mastered it yet.
Here is my favorite recordings of it though, with Yvonne Casey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrIpxpYo_ak

Chinese Breakdown sort of

Some made up Waltz

Just to see if I still can

farmerjones nice! I especially like the 4 measure 'breaks' in the waltz -- sometimes less is more!

@Farmerjones, nice rhythms & fiddlin, makes me wanna jam with you! New moody artistic black & white camera work too.
This thread somehow makes people less shy than on the SoundOff forum…I like it!

@Jon, A lovely version! I like her reel after Spike Island a lot too… might have to take on that one…:-)

Grisman's Opus 57

I was teasing a buddy at the jam. He had a gig and he was down from a 5 piece to a trio, for reasons of scheduling. Well, he called my bluff and dumped a 30 tune set list on me last night. There's a handful of original tunes with no examples. (Zat cuz they're so great?) I've got a week. I'm not worried, now. If I don't get time to familiarize, I'll be disappointed. But it looks like a good percentage are familiar standards.

30 tunes in a week?! Good luck, I'd be panicking...

@Farmerjones, I guess we know “what tunes you’ll be playing lately”!
Can he send recordings of the originals?
(Also are they really gonna play all 30? Maybe just 2-3 of the ‘originals’ will get played…which is manageable to learn in a week…)
Have a fun gig!

Last set played here: Monaghan Twig / Eel in the Sink (kind of weird set, yes I know :-)

2 hour gig. That's only 4 minutes a song. We'll probably do them all. I don't know. I've jammed with several of the member, but never in the "band" form. Down to 4 unknown/original songs. Like anytime, everyone is waiting for the tunes where everyone can sink their teeth into it.

Red Steer..

We did the band thing last night. It was Ok.
Lots of playing in G. Interspersed by Cm, Em, and Am tunes.
I brought along my C tuned fiddle as well.
Over on BHO a person was expressing displeasure of the unpredictability of a jam. One man's meat is another man's poison. I'd rather be jamming.

The Banks Hornpipe.
Ostinelli's Hornpipe.
Bowing The Strings.
Music for a found Harmonium.

"Music In The Glen" in G

I’m learning “farewell to milltown”.

It has a b-flat in it, so I might get the evil eye from the flute/whistle players…but I love it…

Madam Neruda, Hornpipe.
Leather Buttons
Limerick Lassies.
Barclay's Hornpipe.
Rickett's Hornpipe.

 

That’s 5 hornpipes lately! You are a hornpipe specialist…

I love hornpipes too!
A few I've been working on lately
The Minstrel's Fancy
Byrne's
Dumphy's
The Plains of Boyle
The Harp & Shamrock
Fairies'
The Belfast (a finger-twister!)

Played 4 tunes in a competition today 1: The Coolin (slow air), 2: The Sunny Hills of Beara (jig in Gm), 3: The Groves (6 part single hornpipe) and 4: Julia Delaneys (reel). I got a touch of the nerves so it was a little rough around the edges. Thankfully I held it together well enough to land second place. So that qualifies me for a place in the All Ireland final in Belfast in six weeks time. So I’m happy out!
Oh sorry. The category is Miscellaneous and the instrument is Tenor Viola.
I also got first place in the Mouth Organ category so it’s going to be a busy 6 weeks.

Congrats & good luck in the Fleadh finals! I'm not much for competition although I did enter the State Fair fiddle contest last year just to prove i could. @chickenman backed me which helped calm the nerves.

Ahh . come on. just stick your devices on top of your coffee cups or wine/whiskey/beer glasses and record and upload the things, so we can hear em.

i didnt realize how easy it was until i got one of these here devices, i could upload twice a day but it would be ungentlemanly of me to do so...

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I just finished learning two other 4-part reels plus 

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Hi, could you give me the names of these reels, 

I'm having so much fun learning tunes from the session.com, and loading them into my tablet.