A collection of forty-four dance tunes suitable for English ceilidh dances: jigs, polkas, hornpipes, marches, waltzes, mazurkas and reels. They are playable on many folk instruments including accordion, melodeon, flute, recorder, fiddle and bagpipes. Most tunes are in the keys of D, G, C, F and relative minors. Chords are not included as we believe string and keyboard players prefer to choose their own.
Val Woollard and Simon Haines composed these tunes to be played by bands they have been in including: Bass Instincts and The Hosepipe Band.
Sample MP3 versions of some of the tunes included in the collection.
Cherry Green / Corelli Jig
My Modalin / The Gai Logis
Ginger Smart / Sunday in Imola
The albums these tunes are from can be downloaded from Bandcamp
BASS INSTINCTS
Stripper’s Waltz
Bassland
THE HOSEPIPE BAND
Waltzing for pleasure and profit
Landslide
Polstead Meadow
Hell’s Bells