Here’s a thread that gives you a lot of titles. If you need more info, feel free to ask.
http://praisewhistlers.org/pwboard/viewtopic.php?t=336&highlight=whistle+friendly
I’ve got a few traditional pieces on my website, www.geocities.com/whistleandsqueak . Most contemporary stuff is under copyright, so I can’t post it.
Mark
Our session and band plays folk, blues, bluegrass, ITM and some Hayseed Dixie style rock/bg novelty fusion. Oh, and a bit of reggae!
I only whistle on the ITM and folk tunes. The others I mando or bodhran my way through…
My guitarring is a lot better than my whistling. But when I’m picking up tunes I usually practice them on guitar first. The best ones I can do on both guitar and whistle, like The Glenbeigh, and The Home Ruler.
Some stuff is too easy on guitar, like “Over the Ocean”. I heard the Kathryn Tickell band do that in harmonics on guitar. It’s sounds great and it’s not difficult.
Irish Trad, English Trad, Scottish Trad, Classical, Elizabethan, and a bit of Beatles. Anything that comes my way, in my little backwater.
Can you believe I played “Ae fond Kiss” last week to an adult Englishwoman who claimed that she had never heard it before?
One of my favorite hymns, possibly my favorite one, is “Jesus, Lover of My Soul” an old Charles Wesley hymn. It sounds beautiful on whistle. I have a recording, but don’t know how to upload it for anyone to hear. I, too, love to play hymns on the whistle.
Peace,
Bill
hey missy: we have a lot in common. i totally agree with you. we had a guitar player join our folk group in church who can play in 5/4 so we’re back to playing “sing of the Lord’s goodness” too. that song rouses people, especially musicians.
besides church music, on the penny whistle, i also play folk, country, old rock, classical, torch songs, ambient background music, tv theme songs. you should see the looks i get when i transition into the brady bunch theme. christmas carols too, they were meant for the whistle.
For me the whistles have come to supplant my recorders in some cases. My most common “venue” is a small mixed ensemble that leads the music at Mass in our parish about once per weekend.
Besides that I play most anything that appeals to me on them that will fit - including traditional tunes, Christmas songs, and other stuff that we as a family enjoy.
I play whistles because I like the sound(s) not necessarily for ITM - though I’m headed in that direction slowly at this time.
Missy, I hadn’t thought of doing “Sing of the Lord’s Goodness” on the whistle - I usually play the trumpet solo instrument line up high on a soprano recorder…next time we do that one I’ll have to consider a whistle instead.
Another good hymn tune is “Be Thou My Vision/Lord of All Hopefullness” . The tune is Irish so it fits perfect.
I play a lot of Chinese melodies on Irish whistle. Blackhawk constantly encourges me to record Chinese melodies on a CD which I appreciate his encourgment very much. However, I feel sorry that my whistle playing skill is not good enough for recording. Hopefully, someday I will have confidence to record Chinese melodies on a CD.
The four melodies you sent me on cassette tape were beautiful beyond words, KC. You put Green Island Serenade on Clips n Snips. If you upload the other 3 to Clips n Snips, I can burn them onto CD myself, on my home computer! 
Your Chinese music is gorgeous on whistle, KC.
Mark:
I went to the whistle and squeak site and downloaded a couple. I just started a couple of weeks ago, so it is good to be trying something where I know the tune. On the weekend I started to learn Amazing Grace and can pretty much get through it with maybe one or two miscues now and again, thanks to your tablature.
As a number of people have said, it is definitely easier if the tune is already in your head, and that one certainly is.
Many thanks for that,
TP
I play whatever strikes my fancy, Hymns, ITM, Folk, Bluegrass, oldtime, show, classical, etc. I believe in playing anything that I enjoy playing. To learn by ear I tend to learn hymns because I know them.
Ron
ITM and STM mostly, and lots of Christian music, modern worship, old hymns, Gregorian chant, what have you. Then I improvise my own stuff a lot of the time, and try to play jazz but really no.
I play guitar in a heavy metal band, but haven’t started using the whistle in that yet. Maybe we could have a whistle solo in the middle of one of the breakdowns…