2013 Portal ‘Core Tune’ List

2013 Core Tune List

We’ve come up with some core tunes for the 2013 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 Brian for the recordings!)

Core Tunes

Jig: Hag at the Churn