Our Dance List

Jig sets

• Off She Goes (D) / Swallowtail Jig (Em)
  • clean break between first and second
• Fair Jenny's Jig (D,G) / Irishman's Heart to the Ladies (A)
  • careful not to let tempo run away
  • arrangement: play B part of FJ softly
• Stan Chapman's Jig (A) / Mug of Brown Ale (Am)
• Moon and Seven Stars (D) / Boys of Tandragee (Em)

March sets

• Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine (D) / The Rocks of Brae (Em) / [Jenny's Gone to Linton (A)]
  • third tune optional
• Pete's March (D) / Mairi's Wedding (G)
  • play Pete's with "swing" (dotted eighth notes, as written)
• Fourth of July (G) / Red Wing (D)

Polka-Reels/Square-dance reels

• The Girl With the Blue Dress On (G) / The Rose Tree (D)
  • keep this at a sedate tempo
• Old Joe Clark (Amix) / Waiting For Nancy (A)
  • uptempo, peppy

Mainstay Reels

• Over the Waterfall (D) / Scollay's (Em)
• Glise de Sherbrooke (G) / The Gaspe (D)
• Spootiskerry (G) / Robertson's (A)
  • Arrangement! Going into Robertson's, ...
  • Accordion only (maybe with a little piano), both A parts
  • Accordion and two fiddles only, both B parts
  • Second time, fiddles and guitars join in
  • Third time, everybody
• Paddy on the Railroad (D) / Julia Delaney (Dm)
  • Probably save for last tune of the night
  • Slow -- about 104 bpm -- don't push!
  • Chords are Dm twice, C twice, Bb or Dm twice, C or Am twice, drones are good

Single Tunes

• Hundred Pipers (A), jig
• Reel de Montreal (G, D), reel

Couple Dances

• Amelia (Waltz) (D), first half
• Anne's Waltz (Bm), second half
• Karis Pers Polska (Hambo) (D-G), to start second half