Hi folks,
We’re getting excited about our 2025 PIMW coming up next month, and we’ve finally wrangled some Core Tunes out of the staff for this year’s camp!
The core tunes are not mandatory to learn, but we try to choose fun tunes that are well enough known that they will come in handy at sessions, both at the camp, and in sessions out in the wild. If you already know the tunes, that’s great, and if not, they’re worth learning if you’re so inclined! Your instructors may play through the tunes in class to show you how they fit on your particular instrument, and you will likely hear them throughout the week during sessions.
This year’s tunes include:
Reels
The Rookery (G)
Belles of Tipperary (D)
Single Reels
Paddy Taylor’s (D/Dmix)
The Boys of 25 (Dmix)
The Connaught Heifers (D/Dmix)
Jigs
The Lisnagun (D)
The Cuil Aodha (G)
The Piper’s Chair (G)
An Buachaillin Dreoite (G)
The Green Fields of Woodford (D)
Hornpipes
Murphy’s Hornpipe (G)
Check out the recordings here: 2025 Core Tunes
And if you’re looking for more tunes, we leave all of the Core Tunes from prior years on that page, because many of the people at camp will remember them, and they will likely come up in sessions as well!
We can’t wait to see everyone in Kingston next month!
Sincerely,
Susan, Pete, and the entire 2025 PIMW Staff