OK, the next time someone asks ...

[Randi Gormley]

I thought this would be an interesting experiment. I figured the next time I was at one of the better sessions I attend, I'd write down every set we played, so I did. And if anyone does the same, here's a string to add your own.

Anyway, here's what the fourth Saturday session at Dunne's in White Plains, NY, played from about 5 to about 8 p.m. on Jan. 27, 2018 (spelling optional on some of these):

Maid on the Green/Anthony Frawley's
Sean Walsh/Craig's Pipes
Jerry's Beaver Hat/Tell Her I Am
Humours of Ennystimon/Garrett Barry's
Galway/Honeysuckle/Cronin's hornpipes
Dinny Delaney's/Donegal Reel/Sailor's Jacket
Cup of Tea
Father Kelly's II and I
Palm Sunday/Hare in the Corn
Dr. O'Neill's
Bucks of Oranmore
Bright, Quiet Eileen O'Carol/Blarney Pilgrim
Rakish Paddy/Greenfields of America
Sailor on the Rock/Ships are Sailing/Dick Gossip
Plains of Boyle/Kitty's Wedding
Drowsy Maggie/Miss McLeod's
Man of the House/Rolling in the Rye Grass
Ash Plant/Hunter's House
Pretty Maggie Morrissey (Hennesey's)/Liverpool hornpipes
Dawning of the Day (Raglin Rose)
Parnell's March
Musical Priest/Torn Jacket
Queen of the Fair
Coming of Spring
Billy Brock's/Dublin Porter
Fig for a Kiss/Boys of Ballysodare slip jigs
Kerry polka/Kerry polka/Rattlin' bog
Lark in the Morning

[JeffD]

very nice

[Beanzy]

I don’t know if house sessions count, but if they do some of us got together last night near Wadebridge and the following car-crash of tunes & songs is what I remember we did.

Foxrock Hornpipe, Mme. Bonaparte, Boys of Bluehill
Glasgow Reel, The Lark, The Buttefly
Spootiskerry, Willafjord, High Road To Linton, Merry Blacksmith
Pivli och Esko’s Brudvals,
Tjønneblomen
Eamonn A'Chnoic
Glenlogie
The Streams Of Nantsian
Will You Go, Lassie, Go?
Caoineadh Luimní
La Zita Passa
Ciu Ti la dissi?
Vulcano
No Names
The Ballad Of Lord Franklin
Josefin's Dopvals
Dennis Murphy, £42 pound Cheque, Sean Ryans

Then went quiet and talked a load of cobblers for hours.

I alternated between the fiddle and mandolin and we always do songs too so they’re in there in the random order they occurred.

[Randi Gormley]

This one was a little more chancy, since I was sitting opposite the people who knew the names of the tunes I didn't, and we had 2 singers along with guest Dan Gurney, but this was (most of) the music played between 4 and 6 p.m. at the second Saturday session at the Milford Irish Heritage Society in Milford, Conn., on Feb. 10, 2018. As before, some of the spelling is my best guess.

Cooleys/Wise Maid
Apples in Winter/Tell Her I Am
Napoleon Crossing the Rhine/Plains of Boyle
Father Kelly II/?/Limestock Rock
(solo by Dan on box: Tim Maloney's/Malloy's Favorite/Boy in the Gap)
(solo by Christine on flute: Mother's Pet/Sandymount)
Music in the Glen (in G) /Silver Spear
Bend in the Road/Echoes of Killarney/Bridgie Murphy (slides)
Greenfields of Woodford/Whelen's Sow
Scatter the Mud/Blarney Pilgrim/Humours of Ennystimon
Star of Munster/Greenfields of America
Dowd's No. 9/Bird in the Bush/Mossy Banks
Rolling Wave/Humours of Trim
Bucks of Oranmore/Jolly Tinker

We spent more time talking, plus the 2 singers took up some time, so there are fewer tunes than we normally play.

[Jim Garber]

At the two old time sessions I go to we try to list the tunes we play on our Facebook page so that some of us can find the tunes and learn then for subsequent sessions. Very helpful. Thanks, Randi!

[Seamus B]

Here are the tunes covered in my local session. I can go with jigs and reels, and then I start to struggle!

POLKAS
Maggie in the Wood
Balydesmond Polkas 1 2 3
Kerry Polka

JIGS
Paddy in London
Kesh Jig
Out on the Ocean
My Darling Asleep
Burnt Old Man
Sakows Jig / Tripping up the Stairs

HORNPIPES
Off to California
Boys of Bluehill / Twin Sisters
Greencastle
Liverpool

REELS
Father Kelly
Miss McCleod
Silver Spear
Maid Behind the Bar
Merry Blacksmith

MARCHES
Roddy McCorley
Sean South
Foggy Dew
Minstrel Boy
Boys from Wexford