THURSDAY NIGHT TUNES
Big Bird's top ten
Andy Hornpipes's top ten
Sian de Lier's top ten
Jude's top ten
On Thursday nights, upstairs in the Olive bar at the Gregson, (Lancaster's brilliant community and arts centre) a diverse bunch of musicians gather to play a.very eclectic mix of (more or less) traditional music.
From Morris tunes to minuets by way of Playford and Carolan, Polskas from Sweden, Freilichs from Poland! Reels to ragtime and traditional tunes from the North West.
A good night has been know to feature fiddles, mandolins & bouzoukis, hurdy-gurdys, bagpipes of various descriptions, accordions & concertinas, pipe & tabor, sousaphone , flutes recorders & tin whistles
On this page, you can find a growing ( but random!) collection of tunes that tend to get played at these sessions.
They are in PDF (Acrobat) format, so you can print them out. You will need Adobe Reader (from here).
Eventually, tunes will be available in ABC format as well..
NORTHUMBRIAN TUNES(PDF) ABC Waltzes, Jigs and especially Hornpipes from the North East
SCANDY TUNES(PDF) ABC Mostly Swedish. Polskas, Waltzes, Schottisches, marches etc
NEW IMPROVED! NORTHERN TUNES(PDF) ABC
Tunes From Lancaster and the Lake District.
CAROLAN TUNES(PDF) ABC Tunes by 18th Century blind Irish harpist Turlough O Carolan.
EARLY TUNES(PDF) ABC Collection of European medieval & renaissance tunes.
CEILIDH TUNES (PDF) Mostly British & French dance tunes
PLAYFORD TUNES(PDF) ABC A selection of C18 tunes from John Playford's "Complete Dancing Master"
SPANISH TUNES(PDF) A random selection of Alboradas & Fandangos that seem to go down well!
SLIP JIGS(PDF) ABC Some of the oldest and most interesting British tunes are in 9/8 time.
TUNES FROM ORCHESOGRAPHY(PDF) ABC Dance tunes from a C16 French dance manual
RASMUS STORM(PDF) ABC C18 Danish tunes from the tunebook of Rasmus Storm