Top 5 tunes - what are yours?

Irish Flute
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Just a fun Friday post.

What are your top 5 favorite tunes to play? These can be ones you like to play in sessions or solo, practice with, play around at home with, whatever…

Still getting back into the groove but my top 5 at the moment are:

The Butterfly
King of the Fairies
The Mason’s Apron
The Red-Haired Boy
The Keel Row

These are the ones I sort of fall into all the time when I start practicing. I’m not sure where any sessions are around here right now so I have no idea what’s currently in fashion to play at sessions anymore. I know most of these used to be fairly popular though (The Keel Row, not so much but the other 4 definitely)

Let me know what your current favorites are…

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Bucks of Oranmore
Cuigui lasses
McFadden’s handsome daughter
Mrs. Crehans
Willie Coleman’s
Sailing into Walpole’s marsh

Just six fine Irish traditional tunes I play a lot these days amongst others :slight_smile:

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Newest fave (learned from our own Rob Sharer) is the Monaghan Jig
Farewell to Ireland
Rainbow’s End
Boil the Breakfast Early
O’Mahoney’s Hornpipe

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I’ve been putzing around with the following trying to work on my timing and ornaments (though I usually throw in some standard hornpipes and simple jigs as well):

Cooley’s Reel
Temperance Reel
Dunmore Lassies
Monaghan Jig (also inspired by Rob, though I’ve got a slightly different version)
Morrison’s Jig

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Cool thread idea… could be a good way to run across some nice new tunes.
I wouldn’t call these my top 5, but they’re the top tunes I’m enjoying playing/learning to play right now:

  1. The Wise Maid
  2. The Glass of Beer
  3. The Humours of Castlefin
  4. Rose in the Heather
  5. The Merry Blacksmith
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Re: Monaghan Jig
I just looked at the dots at thesession.org and it looks like a good one. Where can I hear Rob’s version?

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CP: Craicdown CD finally available!

highly recomended

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Currently playing/working on:

Christy Barry’s #2

Kitty’s Rambles

Tailor’s Twist

Brown Coffin

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Rob has a link to it in his signature here on the board as well.

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Wow, this is a great thread for me to put a “should learn” tune list together! Thanks!

My flute teacher scheduled me in my first recital, so I’m playing a set with three (very simple) tunes that I’ve fallen in love with:

Arin Boat
Green Mountain
Silver Spear

Another Air that I absolutely love is Aisling Gheal

and for number 5: The tune (don’t know the name) that’s the first tune of Michael Clarkson’s “Irish Flute Tunes” Podcast introduction set:

http://irishflute.podbean.com/mf/web/kqvhbb/intro1.mp3

When I first heard that tune, I thought I’d never be able to do anything like that. Recently, I’ve been feeling like I might eventually be able to pull it off.

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oddly enough, Rob was the OP on the thread I linked to.

what also includes a link to the band’s site, what has links to the CD’s sound samples

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At present these are the most played tunes on my iMind, and very often I find myself playing these on flute/accordion too.

The Caucaus At Secaucaus
I Buried my Wife And Danced On Her Grave
Reel Beatrice
Contradiction Reel
The Cow That Ate The Blanket

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The top 5 change regularly, currently:

Golden Keyboard
Gallagher’s Frolics
Haste to the Wedding
Strayaway Child
Earl’s Chair

Thanks for a great question,
Lewis

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This is a quite impossible question to answer for me…

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Off the top of my head…some tunes that tend to fall under the fingers these days when I have the flute in hand:

Fr. O’Grady’s Visit to Bocca
George White’s Favorite
The Hare’s Paw
Jim Conroy’s
The Green Fields of Woodford

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Tell Laura I Love Her
Johnny Remember Me
The Kite Song
Something for the Weekend
Money (Pink Floyd)

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Ormond Sound
Master McDermott’s
Ambrose Maloney’s
Fred Finn’s
Sister’s Reel (Mary McMahon’s)
..well, my top 5 reels at least…

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Victory Reel
The Highest Hill in Sligo
O’Dea’s Jig
Hanley’s Tweed
An Buchaillin Ban

…at the moment…

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Thanks for the link. I should’ve thought to check his signature!
I still need to get that cd. To be honest, it was on my to-do list and I kinda forgot about it. Of course, that thread is from around the same time my son was born, so I was a bit distracted for a while.:wink:
Anyway, back on topic…

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ah, so after 4 months … is it starting to seem like you have time to do something else?


this one http://music.rumgumption.com/ is also very good.
It has another C&F lurker on it. :smiley: