Songs Sung at In Harmony's Way

We had a great song circle again today! As promised, I am posting a compiled list of songs we have sung. It's not complete, because I haven't always written them down, but you'll get an idea of the range of songs people bring to these sessions.

After the Ball is Over (with a parody)

All the Good People

Amelia Earhardt, First Lady of the Air

Angel from Montgomery

Aragon Mill

Bedlam Boys

Been All Round This World

Benjamin Bowmaneer

Birmingham Sunday

The Bold Fisherman

Bonnie at Morn

Bonnie Farday

By the Hush

Can't Help Lovin' That Man of Mine

City of New Orleans

Cockles and Mussels

Come let us Sing (Hava Nashira)

Common Thread

Crawdad Song

The Curragh of Kildare

Daddy Fox

Danny Boy

Deportee

Derelect (Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum)

The Doffing Mistress

Dona Dona

Donkey Riding

Down Frae Yarrow

Down in the Valley

Down the Springfield Road

The Dudley Boys

Early Fields (Jean Ritchie)

Edelweiss

The Faith of Man

F-word Chat With Your Mother

Few Days

Finnegan's Wake

FlodGarrie

Follow the Drinking Gourd

Fountain Filled With Blood

Gar’ners Gay

Ghost Chicken in the Sky

Give me the Roses While I Live 

Goodbye to the 30 Foot Trailer

The Good Night Song

Grandma’s Feather Bed

The Great Peace March

The Great Storm is Over

Green as Flod Garie

Green Corn

Green Grow the Rushes O

Hang on the Bell, Nellie

Happiness Runs

Haul Away Joe

The Happy Ploughman

Hava Nashira (Come Lets Be Sing)

Here I Am

House of the Rising Sun (tune: Amazing Grace)

How Can I Keep From Singing

Hush Little Baby

The Hymn Song

I Can't Help but Wonder Where I'm Bound

I Had an Old Coat

I Still Miss Someone

I'll Fly Away

I'll Lay You Doon, Love

I'm the Man that Slits the Turkeys Throats at Christmas

I’ll Fly Away (1932)

Isn't it Grand

Its a Long Way from Clare to Here

Johnny with the Bandy Legs (Marais Meranda)

Jongo

Julian of Noritch

Kookaberra

Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her

Leavin’ On A Jet Plane

Let It Be

Let the Mystery Be (Iris Dement)

Love at the Five and Dime

Mangwani Mpulele

The Man on the Flying Trapeze

Marching to Pretoria

Mary Ellen Carter

Mingulay Boat Song

Morning Has Broken

Moses R-Toorali-ay

My Paddle

Needlecases

Never Turning Back (Pat Humphries)

Night Rider’s Lament

No Sound Can Awaken to Glory Again

O Darling Child of Mine

Off to Sea Once More

Oh How He Lied

Old Man River

On the Bayou

One More Day

One Tin Soldier

Our Town (Iris Dement)

Over Again, Peace Must Come

Puff the Magic Dragon

Put It on the Ground

Puttin’ On the Style

Quare Bungle Rye

Rise Up O Flame

River

Rivers of Babylon

Road to Claughdy

The Rose and the Linsey

Scarborough Fair

Seasons of the Year

The Serving Girl’s Holiday

Shanghai Brown

Sheath and Knife

Shipyard Apprentice

Singing in the Rain

Sister Woman Sister

Skye Boat Song

So Long Ago (Nancy Griffith)

Somos El Barco

Spirit Horses

Starlight on the Rails

Step by Step

Summertime

Sweet Potatoes

Tenting on the Old Campground

There Was A Lady

Thyme

To Sing For You

Travelin’ Shoes

Ver Me O

Waltzing With Bears

Wee Willie’s lost his Marly

West Coast of Clare 

Whiskey in the Jar

Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Windmills

You Can’t be a Pirate

No 4th Saturday sessions this summer

Sharon and I will not be able to host the 4th Saturday Irish session in June or July. The next session date is TBD.

March Session

Fabulous session this afternoon. Attending were Sharon on fiddle, Jaya on whistle and bodhran, Lou on bodhran, Allan on mandolin and octave mandolin, Leslie, Fred on bodhran, concertina, whistle and piano, Scott on whistle and mandolin, Pete on banjo and dobro, Phyllis on flute and Suzanne on bodhran and feet.

Repast was excellent, as usual, including smoked salmon, cheese and fruit, crackers and chocolate. And the black forest cake was enjoyed by all, we had to play for two hours after eating a piece just to work off the sugar rush!

Black Forest Cake (click for the recipe)

Here are some of the tunes we played, not in any particular order:
Antrim Rose/High Reel
The People of West Cork and Kerry (song)
Merry Blacksmith/Maid Behind the Bar/Cooley's/Wise Maid/Torn Jacket
The Chickens they were Crowin' (song)
Snowy Path/Kid on the Mountain
Cook in the Kitchen/Dusty Windowsill/Humors of Ennistymon
Trasna na Dtonnta
Cup of Tea/Trip to Durrow
Battering Ram/Banks of Lough Gowna/Out on the Ocean
Garret Barry's/Blarney Pilgrim/Banish Misfortune
Foxhunter's Jig/Fig for a Kiss/The Butterfly
Buy Broom Besoms (song)
Aran Boat Song/Road to Lisdoonvarna/O'Keefe's Slide/Lannigan's Ball

My Darling Asleep/Anthony Frawley's/Tripping Up the Stairs

Peeler's Jacket/Torn Jacket

The Air Tune

Chief O Niels Favourite

Mist on the mountains/Mist Over the Mountains Jig

Hush, Hush (song)

The Bonnie Bunch of Roses O (song)
The Black Seam (piano)

There were more, but I didn't get them all written down. We had a great time. Don't miss the next one, April 25th!

Because February 7 is Jaya and my 5th anniversary, we are taking a four day weekend and will be gone on February 8.

SO, I am moving the sing to the next weekend, February 15th. Same time, same place, same great time, just a different day of the month. In March, we'll go back to the second Sunday of the month, like always.

Here are two videos from Camp New Harmony, featuring Dick Holdstock and Faith Petric.

4 House Concerts in the works

The Auburn House Concerts venue is really taking off. Not a week into 2009 and we have four artists books and are talking with a couple more.

Stevie Coyle in 2 week, January 17th.

Jim Malcolm, February 1st, 3:00 PM.

Melanie O'Reilly, sometime around St. Patrick day.

Brian Bowers, Friday, May 22nd.

Go the the Auburn House Concerts .org website for details.

Tuning

Turning is an opportunity to listen, really listen to your instrument.

AuburnHouseConcerts Blog

We started a new blog for the Auburn House Concerts site (AHC).

AuburnHouseConcerts.blogspot.com

This is where we will announce upcoming concerts, post informal concert reports, and let you know about the publication of AHC videos.

At the bottom of the blog page is an applet that shows all the house concert videos we have posted on YouTube.