Lucky in Love, Spindle Shanks, the Dunmore Lasses, Down the Broom, The Ivy Leaf, The Copper Plate, The Abbey Reel, The Green Banks of Rossbeigh (The Kerry Man or the Kerry Reel), Speed the Plough.

We will use these common session tunes. I recommend that attendees who would like to try things should try to have as many of them at a basic level as they can—you don't have to be brilliant at them, but maybe can get round them if someone else plays them at a moderate pace (without sheet music):…

I will offer ideas, techniques and exercises that will give students the chance to make their tunes more readily available and accessible, so that they are not either lost after being learned or stuck in fixed positions in sets.

It can be quite difficult to overcome the difference between learning tunes and having them available, either aforethought or on the fly. This is worse when we get to sessions only once a week, and when we constantly hear tunes in sets and learn them in sets or in isolation. In this workshop…

This workshop is for any trad musicians who want to improve their ability to recall the tunes they know, and use them easily. It will give musicians tools and practice methods with which to make their traditional tune repertoire accessible and flexible.