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Celtic Session Tune Bank

Even though the play list of every Celtic session is unique and always evolving, there is something akin to a “Hit Parade” of popular tunes.  Below is a listing of some of those tunes.  Click on the entries under Tune Type to select the style of tune.  Or, search through the Master List to find a specific tune.  All tunes can be downloaded.
If you seek a "definitive" collection of Celtic tunes, The Vashon Celtic Tunes Collection is one to explore.  This is a PDF of more than 600 Celtic melodies with chords.  It’s a big file (35mb) but well worth downloading.  You may never need another tune book again!  Click Here to download the PDF.

Tune Type

Reels
Jigs
Carolan
Slip Jigs
Slides
Hornpipes
Airs and Waltzes
Other

Master List

​                  A-G

An Phis Fhliuch
Ashplant 
Banish Misfortune
Banshee
​Bird in the Bush
Blarney Pilgrim
Boys of Bluehill
Britches Full Of Stitches 
Bucks Of Oranmore 
Butterfly
Caliope House
Carolan’s Quarrel
Castle Kelly 
Cliffs of Moher
​Coleraine
Congress
Connaughtman’s Rambles
Cooley’s
Dark Island
Drops of Brandy
Drowsey Maggie
Fig For a Kiss
The Flagon
For Ireland I’d Not Tell Her Name
Foxhunters Reel
Garrett Barry’s 
Geese In The Bog
Give Me Your Hand 
Glass Of Beer
Gravel Walks
Greig’s Pipes 




​​                  H-M

Hag at the Churn
Hardiman the Fiddler
Harvest Home
Haste to the Wedding
Hector the Hero
Humours Of Tulla 
Hundred Pipers
I Buried My Wife
Idle Rogue

Is the Big Man Within?
Isle of Ewe
​Jerry's Beaver Hat
Jimmy Ward’s 
Joe Banes
Julia Delaney’s
Kesh
Kid on the Mountain
Kilfenora
​Kilarney Boys

King of the Fairies
​
Kitty's Gone

Lark In The Morning 
Lilting Banshee
Little Beggerman 
Maid Behind the Bar

Maids Of Mount Kisco
Merrily Kiss the Quaker
Merry Blacksmith 
Miss MacLeod's
Mist On The Mountain 
Morrison’s
Mountain Road
Musical Priest
​         O-W

Off to California
Okefee’s
Otter’s Holt 
Out on the Ocean
Over The Moor To Maggie
Pigeon on the Gate
Planxty John Irwin
Planxty Lord Inchiquin
Rights of Man
Road to Lisdoonvarna
Rocky Road to Dublin
Rolling In The Ryegrass 
Rose In The Heather
Saddle the pony
Sally Gardens 
Sheaf of Wheat 
Silver Spear
Star Of Munster
Swallow Tail
​Tuamgraney Castle

Temperance
​T
enpenny Bit 
Tom Bhetty’s
Tripping Up the Stairs
Wheels of the World
Wind Shakes the Barley
Wise Maid