What to Expect at the Pinecone Irish Session at Tirnanog

What to expect at the PineCone Irish Session at TirnanOg:

This session is open to Irish/Scottish/Cape Breton (commonly referred to as “Celtic”) style players and singers of all levels and ages. Session players will try to help those who are just starting out playing this music with resources for learning tunes and techniques for playing the tunes. It is recommended and encouraged for you to bring a recording device to record tunes played during the session so that you can go back and listen to the tunes on your own to learn new tunes and to learn the changes between the tunes.

No one knows all the tunes, so for the enjoyment of the group, it is recommended to sit out tunes you haven’t learned yet. This is common to all Irish sessions. At this session, you are welcome to listen (and record), and after the tune or set is over, you can (and should) ask what the name of it was.

NOTE: Below is a list of just some of the songs frequently played at the PineCone Irish Session, which is held every Sunday from 3-6 p.m. at TirnanOg in downtown Raleigh. We are not limited to this list, and welcome new material.Many tunes are played in “sets” of two or more tunes, generally one right after another. Tunes in a set are often repeated two, three, or four times. You are welcome (and encouraged) to bring a recording device to the session to record tunes at the session to practice along with at home! Singing is welcome; song keys usually depend on who is singing or leading the song at the time.
And here are a couple websites to reference for learning more these and other tunes: thesession.org;

Hornpipes

The Fairy
Harvest Home
Humours of Tullycrine
Mickey Callighans
Off to California

Sample Set: Humours of Tullyline/Mickey Callighans

Jigs

Connaughtman’s Rambles
Fairhaired Boy
The Ghosts of Erin
HagAt the Churn
Humours of Ballingarry
Jim Ward’s
Legacy
The Leprechaun
Morrison’s
My Darling Asleep
Out on the Ocean
Saddle the Pony
Shaskeen
Tommy Mulhaire’s
Sample set: Humours of Ballingarry/Shaskeen/Fairhaired Boy/Legacy

Polkas

Set: Ballydemond’s 1, 2, & 3
Set: Padraig O’Keefe’s, CuzTeahan’s, CuzTeahan’s

Reels

Cooley’s
Craig’s Pipes
Maid Behind the Bar
Morning Dew
Mountain Road
Mountain Top
Peeler Boland’s
SeargentEarly’s Dream
Swinging on a Gate
Templehouse
Thady Casey’s

Sample set: Templehouse/Craig’s Pipes/Thady Casey’s

Slip Jigs

Arragh Mountains
Dever the Dancer
Fig for a Kiss
Foxhunter’s
Kid on the Mountain
Redican’s
Snowy Path