Essential Tune List

I've had a request for "essential Scottish tunes" for the Royal Mile session. So here's a list, drawn from previous months' sessions! I'll keep this list at the top of the blog from now on, and will add to it from time to time. If you have suggestions of "must play tunes" you think should be added, let me know. And if you think one of the tunes I've picked is kinda obscure, do the same!

Marches
Duke of Fife's Welcome to Deeside
Earl of Mansfield

Jigs
Atholl Highlanders
Off She Goes
Squirrel in the Tree
Muckin o' Geordie's Byre
Sailor's Wife
Stool of Repentance
Calliope House

Strathspeys
Highland Whisky
Devil in the Kitchen
Banks of Spey
Mor a Chennaich
Smith's a Gallant Fireman

Reels, Scots Measures, & Fast Hornpipes
Loch Leven Castle
Miss Shepherd's Reel
Jenny Dang the Weaver
De'il Amang the Tailors
Timor the Tartar
Mrs. McLeod of Raasay's Reel
Largo's Fairy Dance
Barrowburn Reel
High Road to Linton
Highland Laddie
East Neuk of Fife
Spootiskerry
Flowers of Edinburgh
Tam Lin
Tongadale Reel
Cairny Mount
Sleep Soond ida Moarnin'
Willafjord

April Royal Mile Jam

We had a small turnout again, though the weather was so wonderful you could hardly blame anyone. I was joined by Doug Scott and Julie Gorka (though not simultaneously!), and we played our fiddles, guitars, and smallpipes.

As part of my flailing about to try to get more people, I offer a new feature: tune homework. This month's homework is Da Road to Houll (PVSFC VII-1). Julie plays this one a lot, and I should get around to learning it. Also, I'm going to finally nail down Price Charles' Last View of Scotland, a favorite of Bob McIntyre's. Anyone else have favorite tunes they'd like more people to learn for the jam? Suggest them here.

Unfortunately, I lost the tune list. Bad Pete!