Here are some core tunes for the 2014 Portal Irish Music Festival. These are generally “common” tunes, and our hope is that students either already know these tunes, or can try to learn at least some of the tunes prior to the festival. The idea is not for the instructors to teach these tunes, but for them to be able to give you their take on the tunes, and talk about instrument-specific ideas and techniques for playing the tunes. That will have a much greater impact if you already play the tune! (And the individual instructors will likely be teaching other tunes during the week).
And if you don’t already play these tunes, learning them will help you in sessions all over the world, and it will give us some commonality for sessions at the festival!
Click on a tune name, and you will find links to ABC notation, Sheet Music, and MP3 Files (thanks to Marla for the recordings!)
Slip Jig: Dever the Dancer
Slip Jig: Hardiman The Fiddler
Jig: Banks of Lough Gowna
Slip Jig: Humours of Derrycrossane
More to come…