The Leitrim Lilter
The Twelve Pins
Policeman’s Holiday
Hamish’s Wedding
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
Tommy Peoples (2 different versions)
Earl’s Chair
Brian McAodha’s
Mist Covered Mountain
Maids of Mount Cisco
Brenda Stubbert’s
Tailor’s Twist
St. Anne’s
Conlagh’s Big Day
The North Star
The Ghosts of Ballybrolly
Boys of the Lough
Colonel Fraser
Willie Clancy’s Jig
Landsdowne Lass
Trip to Herve’s
Knocknamoe Jig
Custy’s Jig
Trip to Brittany
All faves, but whatever I happen to be playing at the time is really my favorite!
Old Hag you’ve killed me
Lilting banshee → Chieftain’s version that doesn;t go to the high passage in the A section
Congress reel
In development:
Maids of Mt. Kisco (which seems to be cropping up an awful lot)
Kid on the mountain
Connaughtman’s rambles - not because I particularly like it but it’s just a good standard
She beg,She Mor (a girl at work is getting married soon-she wants a harpist -I lent her a Carolan album-which she loves-a possible gig?? )
Dunphy’s hornpipe
‘Summertime’- jazz is in the blood!
Christmas Eve (Tommy Coen’s)
Fox on the Town
Tour de Taille (waltz)
The North Star
Stony Steps
Star of Munster
The Ivy Leaf
Palmer’s Gate
McDermott’s (hornpipe)
and I wish I could play the Bucks of Oranmore. I just won’t stick, yet.
Cheers, Mike.
(This list is basically the list of tunes most likely to come out if I pick up a whistle and start playing without thinking about it; so in effect, the tunes I’m heavily practicing.)
The short version of the list of tunes to learn is “Jolly Tinker”, “Lucy Campbell”, “Duke of Leinster”, “Roaring Mary”, “O’Rourke’s”, and “Kitty’s Wedding” (hornpipe). (Oddly enough I decided to learn both “Kitty’s Weddings” last week independently, without knowing their names!) Maybe “The Rambler” as well.
I’m not too good yet but I’m trying to play;
Bonny Kate
The Musical Priest
Breton Breeze
and
Tailors Twist
Along with a bunch of others I can’t remember right now.
O’Gallagher’s Frolics (I learned of this tune on the Haunting Jigs thread and like it very much)
The Kesh Jig
The Dunmore Lasses
Wind that Shakes the Barley
I have been working to improve my rolls, and these tunes provide plenty of practice opportunities.
We just saw Lunasa last Friday night in Tarpon Springs (great show!!!), and so of course their Punch set from the Kinnittey Sessions has inspired me to take on Trip to Windsor and Punch in the Dark.
I just got his songbook after learning sourgrass and granite. He does have some great waltzes and some nice reels, although they are more built for fiddle.
-I lent her a Carolan album-which she loves-a possible gig?? 
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