BASS at SF Free Folk Fest 2007

Hi everyone! I hope you can join in the slow session at the SFFFF on Sunday June 17, 1-3 PM, at City College of San Francisco. (http://www.sffolkfest.org/2007/) Even if you can't come, you might enjoy the information below. Please pass this along to any Irish slow session friends - thanks!

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Irish Slow Session
San Francisco Free Folk Festival 2007


Here is the instruction for this workshop: Take this home and read everything in the websites listed below.

Irish Traditional Music Archive
http://www.itma.ie/Publications/LearningLeaflet.html

Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music
http://www.alan-ng.net/irish/learning/

Irish Traditional Music Tune Index. Alan Ng's Tunography
http://www.irishtune.info/

Michael Duffy’s Slowplayers website
http://www.slowplayers.org/
(The meeting information about BASS is out of date.)

Chris Smith’s website
http://coyotebanjo.com/

Chris’s educational essays:
http://coyotebanjo.com/music-group-28.html

Chris Smith was influential in the formation of BASS. We called him the Granddaddy of slow sessions (though he’s much too young to be a Granddaddy!).


Now let’s have some fun!

We have almost two hours to have a great time playing Irish tunes
together. I’m going against my own belief in the rule of having no
printed music in a session, and bringing dots for music readers who
don’t know these tunes and would like to play with us.

There are various styles of how slow sessions work, and this workshop
won’t be the definitive way it’s s’pose to be done, but hopefully
will work for a group of people from different backgrounds and
sessions to enjoy playing together. I’ve put together some sets,
listed on the back, of which all (or almost all) of the tunes are
listed in Michael Duffy’s slowsession music list. Hopefully these
will provide some common ground, but you’re welcome to start other
tunes that you know, as well.

We’ll play at a relatively slow tempo. If you can’t play a tune,
engage in active listening - the first step to learning. If you can
play part of it, join in where you can.

Irish traditional tunes, because they have been passed on aurally,
have developed with many variations, sometimes even many names for
the same tune. There’s not only one correct way to play a tune. We
will know different variations, but we can still play them together
and learn from each other.

- Ann McChesney-Young (See back
for set list.)

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Irish Slow Session Set List


**Reels**

Peeler’s Jacket (G) / Flogging Reel (G) / Abbey Reel (A dor)

Maid Behind the Bar (D) / Merry Blacksmith (D) / Drowsy Maggie (E min)

Maid of Mt. Cisco (A dor) / Sligo Maid (A dor)

Cooley’s Reel (E dor) / Cup of Tea (E dor/D)

Scholar (D) / Rolling in the Rye Grass (D) / Sally Gardens (G)


**Jigs**

My Darling Asleep (D) / Humours of Ennistymon (G) / Lark in the
Morning (D)

Banish Misfortune (D mix) / Kesh Jig (G)

Cliffs of Moher (A dor) / Trip to Athlone (Newport Lasses) (D) /
Connaughtman’s Rambles (D)


**Slip Jigs**

Foxhunters (D) / Butterfly (E dor) / Fig for a Kiss (E dor)


**Slides**

Road to Lisdoonvarna (E dor) / Merrily Kiss the Quaker (G) /
O’Keefe’s (A dor)


**Hornpipes**

Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine (A dor) / Off to California (G)

Harvest Home (D) / Galway (D) / Boys of Bluehill (D)


**Polkas**

Ballydesmond #1 and #2 (A dor) / #3?


**Closing Waltz**

Ashoken Farewell (D)

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Ann McChesney-Young
ravenbox@pacbell.net




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