Below you’ll find the tunes, leaders, themes, and links to past Mary O’s Virtual Sessions. Note: We will update this as we have time!
*Played by Caitlin and Chris
Session #1 - Thursday, March 19th, 2020
Leaders: Caitlin Warbelow and Chris Ranney
Theme: None
*All sets played by Caitlin and Chris
*Jigs: My Darling Asleep (D) / Jimmy Wards (G) / Rolling Waves (D)
*Reels: Lad O’Beirne’s (G) / Mountain Road (D) / Father Kelly’s (G)
*Slip Jigs: Redican’s Mother (D) / Kid on the Mountain (Em) / Foxhunter’s (D)
*Waltz: Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow (Em)
*Jigs: Banks of Lough Gowna (Bm) / Connaughtman’s Rambles (D) / Donegal Lass (A)
*March/Reels: John Brown the Emancipator (G) / Paddy Fahey’s (G) / Frank’s (A)
Session #2 - Monday, March 23rd, 2020
Leaders: James Cleveland and Darin Kelly
Theme: Things you would have worn on St. Pat’s
*Jigs: Out on the Ocean (G) / Young Tom Ennis (Am) / Legacy (G)
Marches: The Centenary (D) / Sean South (G) / Dawning of the Day (D)
Reels: Wedding Reel (D) / My Love is in America (D) / Pachelbel’s Frolics (D)
Song: John O’Dreams (D) (James Cleveland)
Polkas: Maggie in the Woods (G) / Galway Belles (Em) / Rattlin’ Bog (D)
*Waltz/Reels: Ashokan Farewell (D) / Farrel O’Gara’s (D) / Father Kelly’s (G)
Session #3 - Thursday, March 26th, 2020
Leaders: Pat Mangan and Alan Murray
Theme: Animals
*Jigs: Saddle the Pony (G) / The Spotted Dog (A)
Jigs: Jimmy Ward’s (G) / Geese in the Bog (C/) / Lilting Banshee (Am)
Reels: Splendid Isolation (Gm) / Flogging Reel (G) / Toss The Feathers (Em)
Reels: Martin Wynne’s #2 (Bm) / Musical Priest (Bm) / McFadden’s Handsome Daughter (A)
Hornpipes: Flaherty’s (D) / Off to California (A)
Air/Reel: Down by the Sally Gardens (D) / Bucks of Oranmore (D)
*March/Reel: John Brown the Emancipator (G) / Paddy Fahey’s (G)
Session #4 - Monday, March 30th, 2020
Leaders: Isaac Alderson and Kyle Sanna
Theme: Tea and Whisky
*Slip Jigs: Fig for a Kiss (Em) / Highway to Kilkenny (G) / Foxhunters (D)
Reels: Wind that Shakes the Barley (D) / Mayor Harrison’s Fedora (Em) / Morning Star (G)
Jigs: When Sick Is It Tea That You Want? (D) / Banish Misfortune (D)
Hornpipes: Alexander’s (D) / Cronin’s (G)
Jigs: Banks of Lough Gowna (Bm) / Jimmy Ward’s (G) / My Darling Asleep (D)
Waltz/Reel: Sí Beag Sí Mór (D) / Lucy Campbell’s (D)
*Jig/Reel: Rolling Waves (D) / Silver Spear (D)
Session #5 - Thursday, April 2nd, 2020
Leaders: Kevin Crawford and Cillian VallelySpecial Guest: Eimear Arkins
Theme: Beer and Beanies
*Reel: Father Kelly’s (G) (Caitlin only)
Jigs: The Black Rogue (D) / Jimmy Ward’s (G)
Reels: Cregg’s Pipes (G) / The Earl’s Chair (D)
Song: Do You Love an Apple? (Eimear Arkins)
Slip Jigs: Redican’s Mother (D) / Kid on the Mountain (Em)
Hornpipes: The Plains of Boyle (D) / Cronin’s (G)
Song: Willie Taylor (Eimear Arkins)
Jigs: Willie Coleman’s (G) / Mug of Brown Ale (Am)
Reels: Over the Moor to Maggie (G) / The Black-Haired Lass (A) / Rip the Calico (D)
*Waltz/Jigs: Inisheer (G) / Kesh (G) / Connaughtman’s Rambles (D)
Session #6 - Monday, April 6th, 2020
Leaders: Colin Farrell, Shane Farrell, and Dan Lowery
Special Guest: Johnny Cuomo
Theme: Hats
*Reels: Mountain Road (D) / Star of Munster (Am) / Reconciliation (A)
Jigs: Rose in the Heather (D) / Humours of Ennistymon (G) / Sweet Biddy Daly (A)
Song: Winter Has Come and Gone (Johnny Cuomo)
Reels: Speed the Plow (D) / The Laurel Tree (Am) / The Bird in the Bush (G)
Jigs: Tar Road to Sligo (D) / Young Tom Ennis (Am) / Banks of Lough Gowna (Bm)
Song: Leather Wing Bat (Johnny Cuomo)
Reels: Monaghan Twig (Amix) / Lads of Laoise (Em) / Rolling in the Ryegrass (D)
Reels: Lady Ann Montgomery (D) / Tommy Peoples’ (G) / The Sligo Maid (Am)
*Down By the Sally Gardens (D) / Rolling Waves (D) / Silver Spear (D)
Session #7 - Thursday, April 9th, 2020
Leaders: Caitlin Warbelow and Chris Ranney
Special Guests: Joanie Madden, Danielle Enblom, and James Yoshizawa
Theme: Fancy Shoes
*Jigs: Connaughtman’s Rambles (D) / Sliabh Russell (Am) / Rolling Waves (D)
*Slip Jigs: Fig for a Kiss (Em) / Cathal McConnell’s (F#m) / The Snowy Path (D)
*Reels: Siobhan O’Donnell’s (A) / Farewell to Ireland (D) (Featuring Danielle Enblom)
*Reels: Captain of the Rocks (D) / Musical Priest (Bm) / Hunter’s House (G)
Jig/Polka: Kesh (G) / Sean Ryan’s (D) (James Yoshizawa)
Jigs: The Blarney Pilgrim (G) / Morrison’s (Em) / Sixpenny Money (D) (Joanie Madden)
*Air/Jigs: Da Slockit Light (D) / Kerfunken (D) / Out on the Ocean (A)
*Hornpipes: Caisleán an Óir (Gm) / Cronin’s (G) (Featuring Danielle Enblom)
*Reels: Farewell to Ireland (Am) / Reconciliation (A) / Mountain Road (D)
Session #8 - Monday, April 13th, 2020
Leaders: Brenda Castles and Anna Colliton
Special Guests: Petrina Bromley and Romano Di Nillo
Theme: Plants
*Reel: Mountain Road (D)
Jigs: Rose in the Heather (D) / Apples in Winter (Em) / Munster Buttermilk (G)
Song: The Crabby Fish Song (Brenda Castles)
March/Reel: Lord Mayo (Am) / Maids of Mont Cisco (Am)
Song: Sarah (Petrina Bromley and Romano Di Nillo)
Hornpipes: N’Fheadar (G) / Harvest Home (D)
Song: The Union from St. John’s (Petrina Bromley)
Reels: Green Fields of Rosbeigh (Em) / The Bird in the Bush (G) / Rolling in the Ryegrass (D)
Song: Are You Right There Michael? (Brenda Castles)
*Jigs/Reel: Hardiman’s Fancy (D) / Jimmy Ward’s (G) / The Fair Wind (G)
Session #9 - Thursday, April 16th, 2020
Leaders: Matt Mancuso and Alan Murray
Special Guest: Allison Barber Pasternak
Theme: Star Wars
*March/Jig/Slide: Star of the County Down (Am) / Young Tom Ennis (Am) / Star Above the Garter (D)
Reels: Morning Dew (Em) / Silver Spear (D)
Polkas: Kerry Polka (Em) / Maids of Ardagh (D)
Song: The Parting Glass (Allison Barber Pasternak)
Reels: Morning Star (G) / Star of Munster (Am)
Jigs: Sean Ryan’s (Am) / Connaughtman’s Rambles (D)
Reels: Mountain Road (D) / Sally Gardens (G)
*Air/Jigs: Da Slockit Light (D) / Humours of Glendart (D) / Star Wars (G)
Session #10 - Monday, April 20th, 2020
Leaders: John Redmond and Matt Stapleton
Special Guest: Troy MacGillivray
Theme: Poetry and Literature
*March/Jigs: John Brown the Emancipator (G) / Legacy Jig (G) / Handsome Young Maidens (A)
Jigs: Timmy Clifford’s (G) / Stan Chapman’s (A) / Miller’s Maggot (G)
Poem: “Digging” - Seamus Heaney (recited by John Redmond)
Reels: Silver Spear (D) / Father Kelly’s (G) / Star of Munster (Am)
Hornpipes/Reels: The Ebb Tide (Gm) / The Stage (G) / Paddy Fahey’s (G) / The Old Copperplate (Am) / The Contradiction (A) (featuring Troy MacGillivray)
Song: The Workers’ Song - Ed Pickford (Matt Stapleton)
Jigs: Connaughtman’s Rambles (D) / Kesh (G) / Tar Road to Sligo (D)
Poetry: Sonnet #130 - William Shakespeare (recited by Matt Stapleton, accompanied by John Redmond)
Jigs: The Cat’s Meow (D) / Hand Me Down the Tackle (D) / Tripping Down the Stairs (G) (featuring Troy MacGillivray)
Song: The Fiddler of Dooney (Melinda Halford)
Reels: Mouth of the Tobique (G) / Dinky’s (D) / Frank’s (A) / Esther’s (Em)
*Jig/Reel: The Cordal (D) / Martin Wynne’s #2 (D)
Session #11 - Thursday, April 23rd, 2020
Leaders: Rose Conway Flanagan and Johnny Cuomo
Special Guests: Maeve Flanagan and Brian Conway (also featuring Kieran Flanagan)
Theme: Earth Day
*Jig/Reels: Banks of Lough Gowna (Bm) / The Curlew (Bm) / Farewell to Ireland (D)
Slip Jigs: Kid on the Mountain (Em) / Arragh Mountains (A)
Jigs: The Coming of Spring (Em) / Hole in the Hedge (C) / New York Jig (G) (Rose + Kieran)
Barndances: Thadelo’s (D) / If There Weren’t Any Women in the World (G)
Jigs: The Spotted Dog (A) / Tell Her I Am (G) / Richard Brennan’s (D) (Brian Conway)
Hornpipes: Off to California (G) / The Galway (D) (Rose + Kieran)
Song: “Who Will Sing Me Lullabies?” - Kate Rusby (Johnny Cuomo)
Jigs: Tonra’s (D) / Cliffs of Moher (Am) / The Spotted Dog (A) (Maeve Flanagan)
Reels: Mountain Road (D) / Sally Gardens (G) / Ormond Sound (Am) (Rose + Kieran)
*Air/Reel: Inisheer (G) / Paddy Fahey’s (G)
Session #12 - Monday, April 27th, 2020
Leaders: Séagda Coyle and Eugene Bender
Special Guests: Matt and Shannon Heaton
Theme: Best Trad Albums of All Time
*Jigs: Sliabh Russell (Am) / Will You Come Home With Me? (G)
Reels: Joe Cooley’s (Em) / The Wise Maid (D)
Hornpipes: The Rights of Man (Em) / The Pride of Petravore (Em)
Jigs: I Buried My Wife and Danced on Her Grave (D) / Paddy Fahey’s (G) / Aherne’s Egg (G) (Matt and Shannon Heaton)
Polkas: John Walsh’s (G) / Cuz Teahan’s (G) / Johnny O’Leary’s (A)
Jigs: My Darling Asleep (D) / Queen of the Fair (D)
Reels: Mountain Road (G) / Galway Rambler (D) (Matt and Shannon Heaton)
Reels: Fermoy Lasses (Em) / Hand Me Down the Tackle (D)
Reels: Lad O’Beirne’s (G) / Dan Breen’s (Am) / The Humours of Ballyconnell (D)
*Reels: Splendid Isolation (Gm) / John Stenson’s (A) / My Love Is In America (D)
Session #13 - Thursday, April 30th, 2020
Leaders: Ivan Goff and Katie Linnane
Special Guests: Ben Power and Louisa Bennion
Theme: Masks and Miscellaneous Instruments
Jigs: Down the Black Lane (D) / Paddy Taylor’s (D) / The Piper’s Chair (G)
Hornpipes: Cronin’s (G) / The Tailor’s Twist (D)
Amazing Grace (Joshua Wang)
Hurdy Gurdy demo (Ben Power)
Jigs: Pipe on the Hob #1 (D) / Pipe on the Hob #2 (Am)
Jigs: The New York Jig (G) / Contentment is Wealth (Em) / The Killimor (G) (Louisa Bennion)
Reels: Lady on the Island (D) / George White’s Favourite (G) / Last Night’s Fun (D)
Reels: The Cow that Ate the Blanket (G) / Farewell to Kennedy (G) (Ben Power)
Reels: Maude Miller’s (G) / Lilies in the Field (D) / Kiss the Maid Behind the Barrel (G)
Session #14 - Monday, May 4th, 2020
Leaders: Andrew Finn Magill, Eileen McLain, and Darin Kelly
Special Guest: Jason Oremus
Theme: Quarantine Hairstyles
*Jigs: Jimmy Ward’s (G) / Legacy (F) / Star Wars Jig (G)
Reels: Love at the Endings (D) / Murphy’s (D) (Eileen/Darin)
Jigs: The Merry Old Woman (G) / The White Petticoat (Em) / Leif Erikson’s (A/D) (Finn/Darin)
Jig/Slip Jigs: The Diplodocus (A) / Redican’s Mother (D) / Dever the Dancer (Em) (Eileen/Darin)
Reels w/Beatbox: Unknown (Gm) / Reel Beatrice (Gm) (Caitlin w/ Jason Oremus)
Hornpipes: The Rights of Man (Em) / Johnny Cope (Am) (Finn/Darin)
Reels: Maudabawn Chapel (G) / Beare Island (Em) / Lads of Laois (Em) (Finn/Eileen)
Jigs: Seanamhac Tube Station (Gm) / Mouse in the Kitchen (A) (Eileen/Darin)
Reels: The Godfather (D) / Sailing Into Walpole’s Marsh (Am) / The Fair Wind (G) (Finn/Darin)
*Slip Jigs: Highway to Kilkenny (G) / Foxhunter’s (D)
Session #15 - Thursday, May 7th, 2020
Leaders: Marta Cook and Devin Shepherd
Special Guests: Pascal Gemme and Marie-Soleil Pilette
Theme: Quarantine Cooking
*Jig/Reel: Kerfunten (D) / Captain of the Rocks (D)
Reels: The Sligo Maid (Am) / The Gatehouse Maid (Am) / The Concert Reel (Am)
Hornpipes: The Blackbird (D) / The Honeysuckle (D)
Reels: Mouth of the Tobique (G) / Reel Béatrice (Am) (Pascal and Marie-Soleil)
Slip Jigs: Maire Rua (G) / Little Fair Canavans (G)
Jigs: The Mist Covered Mountain (Am) / Connachtman’s Rambles (D) / Kinnegad Slashers (D)
Reels: La Grondeuse (D) / La Grondeuse à Wilfred (D) (Pascal and Marie-Soleil)
Reels: The Crooked Road to Dublin (G) / Jackie Coleman’s (D) / Charlie Lennon’s (D)
*Air/Slip Jig/Jigs: The Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow (Em) / The Night Before Larry Was Stretched (Em) / The Orphan (Em) / Calliope House (E)
Session #16 - Monday, May 11th, 2020
Leaders: Norah Rendell, Brain Miller, and Daneille Enblom
Special Guest: Dáithí Sproule
Theme: Favorite T-Shirts
*Air/Jig/Reel: Down By the Sally Gardens (D) / Rolling Waves (D) / Mountain Road (D)
Slip Jigs: Redican’s Mother (D) / My Mind is Never Easy (G) / The Whinney Hills of Leitrim (D/G)
Jigs: The Dawn Chorus (G) / The Old Favourite (G) / The Thrush in the Straw (G) (w/ Danielle)
“The Swan” - Camille Saint-Saëns (Rachel Warbelow: cello with toilet roll)
Song: “The Island of Woods” - lyrics by Barry Foy, melody by Liz Carroll (Dáithí Sproule)
Hornpipes: The Concertina (G) / The Plains of Boyle (D)
Reels: The Duke of Leinster (G) / Jenny Picking Cockles (D) (student guests)
Set Dance: The Garden of Daisies (D) (w/Danielle)
Song: The Banks of the Moy (Norah w/Brian)
Reels: Lad O’Beirne’s (D) / Lady on the Island (D) / Swinging on the Gate (G) (w/ Danielle)
*Slides: The Road to Lisdoonvarna (Em) / The Cat’s Rambles to the Child’s Saucepan (D)
Session #17 - Thursday, May 14th, 2020
Leaders: Katie McNally and Neil Pearlman
Special Guests: Mairi Rankin and Margot Krimmel
Theme: Dinosaurs and Other Animals
*Jigs: Out on the Ocean (G) / Young Tom Ennis (Am) / The Spotted Dog (A)
Strathspey/Reels: Cutting Ferns (Am) / Brenda Stubbert’s (Am) / Miss McLeod’s (A)
Jigs: The Soup Dragon (Bm) / The Jig of Slurs (D)
Reels: The Black Horse (Am) / Mutt’s Favourite (Am) / The Weasel (A) (Mairi Rankin)
Jigs: Irishman’s Heart to the Ladies (A) / Stan Chapman’s (A) / Atholl Highlanders (A)
Waltz: Ashokan Farewell (D) (Tribute to Mimi’s dog Josh ft. sessioneers)
Waltz/Jig: The Eagle’s Whistle (G) / The Old Favourite (G) (Margot Krimmel)
Waltz: My Cape Breton Home (G)
*Reel: Father Kelly’s (D) (w/ Avocado on bodhrán, courtesy of James Yoshizawa)
March/Reels: Highland Laddie (D) / Jenny Dang the Weaver (D) / The Silver Spear (D)
*Reels: Farrel O’Gara (D) / Silver Spire (D)
Session #18 - Monday, May 18th, 2020
Leaders: Kevin Crawford, Cillian Vallely, and Colin Farrell
Special Guest: Lisa Gutkin
Theme: The Things We Do
*Reels: The Banshee (G) / Fermoy Lasses (Em) / Dick Gossip’s (D)
Reels: The New Policeman (D) / The Pretty Girls of Mayo (G) / The Abbey (Am)
Jigs: The Rolling Waves (D) / Out on the Ocean (G)
Air/Reel: The Song of Rice Husking (Am) / Reel Angst (Em) (Lisa Gutkin)
Polkas: John Brosnan’s (G) / Blackwater Polka (Am)
Jigs: The Rambling Pitchfork (D) / The Kesh (G)
Song: Ye Rambling Boys of Pleasure (Anne Johnson)
Reels: The Gooseberry Bush (D) / The Earl’s Chair (D) / Miss Johnson (G)
*Jigs: The Miller’s Maggot (G) / Will You Come Home With Me? (G)
Session #19 - Thursday, May 21st, 2020
Leaders: Laura Feddersen, Cara Frankowicz, Nathan Gourley, and Alan Murray
Special Guest: Kieran Jordan
Theme: Science
*Slip Jigs: The Butterfly (Em) / An Phis Fhliuch (D)
Barndances: Lucy Farr’s (G) / The Little Stack of Wheat (G)
Reels: The Hare’s Paw (G) / The Drunken Landlady (Em) / Farewell to Ireland (D)
Reels: Quinn’s (D) / The Graf Spey (C) (with Kieran Jordan)
Jigs: Shoemaker’s Fancy (G) / The Old Favourite (G) (with Kieran Jordan)
Song: “Foreign Lander” - Tim O’Brien (Alan Murray)
Hornpipes: Poll Ha’penny (Amix) / Miss Galvin’s (D) / The Harp and the Shamrock (G)
Hop Jigs: Cucanandy (G) / The Dusty Miller (D) / The Boys of Ballisodare (G)
Jigs: Out on the Ocean (G) / Connaughtman’s Rambles (D)
Reels: Sligo Creek (Bm) / Dublin Reel (D)
Session #20 - Monday, May 25th, 2020
Leaders: Eimear Arkins, Kevin Buckley, Eileen Gannon, and Robert Ryan
Theme: Arches and Marches
*Reels: The Banshee (G) / Lads of Laois (Em) / Hunter’s House (G)
Marches: Fingal March (Em) / Sean South (G) / The Foggy Dew (Em)
Reels: The Boyne Hunt (D) / Rolling in the Ryegrass (D) / The Red Haired Lass (G)
Slip Jigs: Fig for a Kiss (Em) / Come Under My Dimity (G) / Hardiman the Fiddler (D)
Song: Téir Abhaile Riú (Eimear)
Reels: Drag Her Around the Road (Em) / Jackie Coleman’s (D) / The Otter’s Holt (Bm)
Mazurkas: Sonny Brogan’s #1 (D) / Sonny Brogan’s #2 (G) / Shoe the Donkey (G)
Song: Raglan Road - Patrick Kavanaugh (Kevin)
Jigs: The Blackthorn Stick (G) / The Killavil (G) / Tripping Up the Stairs (D)
*March/Reel: John Brown the Emancipator (G) / Paddy Fahey’s (G)
Session #21 - Thursday, May 28th, 2020
Leaders: Nuala Kennedy and Pádraig Rynne
Special Guests: Blackie O'Connell, Rosa Carroll, and Eva Carroll
Theme: Ireland and Other Green Things
*Jigs: Legacy (G) / Eddie Kelly’s #2 (Em) / Cliffs of Moher (Am)
Song/Reel: Tha M’Ulaidh (Am) / Sporting Paddy (Am)
Jigs: My Darling Asleep (D) / The Lilting Banshee (Am) / The Ship in Full Sail (G)
Jigs: Statia Donnelly’s (D) / Paddy Keenan’s (Em) / Patsy Geary’s (G/D) (Blackie O’Connell)
Song: Love is Teasing (Nuala Kennedy)
Reels: The Morning Star (G) / The Strawberry Blossom (D) (Eva and Rosa Carroll)
Reels: Dún Na NGabhar (G) / The Man of the House (Em)
Reels: Travers’ #2 (Am) / The Boy in the Gap (D) (Blackie O’Connell)
Hornpipes: Harvest Home (D) / Rossinver Braes (G) (Eva and Rosa Carroll)
Song: Belfast Mill by Si Kahn (Nuala Kennedy)
*Reels: My Love is in America (D) / Humours of Tulla (D)
Session #22 - Monday, June 1st, 2020
Leaders: Alasdair White, James Duncan MacKenzie, and Calum Alex Macmillan
Special Guests: Sky Kelsey and Shannon Muenchow, and Keith Morrison
Theme: Tweed
*Jigs: My Darling Asleep (D) / Jimmy Ward’s (G) / Leslie’s March (D)
Strathspeys/Reels: Munlochy Bridge (G) / The Back of the Change House (D) / Cur Nan Gobhar As A ‘Chreig (D) / The Night We Had the Goats (G) / Ruidhleadh Mo Nighean Donn (A)
March/Jigs: Lochanside (D) / The Boys of Ballymote (D) / Kenny Gillies of Portnalong (A)
Song: Mo Rùn-sa Mhaighdean (My Love the Maid) (Calum Alex Macmillan)
6/8 Marches: The MacNeils of Ugadale (A) / The Heights of Cassino (D)
Reels: Trip to London (G) / Boys of Malin (A) / Farewell to Connaught (D) (Sky Kelsey and Shannon Muenchow)
Schottisches: Calum Beag (A) / Sabhal Iain ‘Ic Uisdean (D) / ‘S Iomadh Rud A Chunna Mi (G) / Domhnall Dubh An Domhnallaich (G)
Marches: Pipe Major Donald Maclean of Lewis (Am) / The Knightswood Ceilidh (Am)
Song: Mo Nighean Donn (My Brown Haired Lass) (Calum Alex Macmillan and Keith Morrison)
Hornpipe/Jigs: Dr. MacInnes’ Fancy (Am) / The Seagull (A) / Kenny MacDonald’s Jig (D)
Reels: Dolina Mackay (Am) / The Ale is Dear (Bm) / The Ramnee Ceilidh (D) / Roddy MacDonald’s Fancy (A)
*Reels: Farrell O’Gara (D) / The Banshee (G) / Wing Commander Donald MacKenzie’s (A)
Session #23 - Thursday, June 4th, 2020
Leaders: John Redmond and Matt Stapleton
Special Guest: Santiago Molina
Theme: Favorite Films
*Slip Jig/Jig/Polka: The Butterfly (Em) / The Blarney Pilgrim (G) / The Rakes of Mallow (G)
Waltz/Jigs: Pretty Girl Milking the Cow (Em) / The Orphan (Em) / The Haunted House (A)
Reels: Dan Breen’s (Am) / Swinging on the Gate (G) / Sporting Paddy (Am)
Jigs: My Former Wife (Am) / The Killavil (Em) / Happy to Meet and Sorry to Part (G) (Santiago Molina)
Barndances/Reels: Jimmy Duffy’s (G) / Lucy Farr’s (D) / Galway Rambler (G) / John Stenson’s (A)
Song: Matt Hyland (Matt Stapleton)
Hornpipes/March: The Connemara Hornpipe (G) / The Leveret Hornpipe (D) / Highland Laddie (D)
Reels: The Tarbolton (Em) / The Longford Collector (G) / Sailor’s Bonnet (D) (Mary O’s Onscreen #1 ft. 14 sessioneers)
*Jigs/Polka: Rolling Waves (D) / The Swallowtail (Em) / James Bond Theme + Two to the Bar (Em)
Session #24 - Monday, June 8th, 2020
Leader: Gerry O’Connor
Special Guests: Nuala Kennedy, Zoë Conway, John McIntyre, Aine McGeeney, and Colm Phelan
Theme: Home Places
*Waltz/Reel: My Cape Breton Home (G) / Far From Home (G)
Hornpipes: The Rights of Man (Em) / The Plains of Boyle (D) / Off to California (G)
Song: Unknown (Zoë & John)
Slip Jigs: Drops of Brandy (G) / The Dusty Miller (A) / Ride a Mile (G)
Song: Unknown (Aine & Colm)
Reels: The Heather Breeze (D) / Scotch Mary (Am) / Mountain Road (D)
Song: Samhradh Samhradh (Nuala Kennedy)
Jigs: Boys of Coomanore (D) / The Flying Wheelchair (G) (Aine & Colm)
Unknown 7/8 composition by Zoë (Zoë & John)
Slip Jig/Reels: The Kitten (Em) / John Carty’s (Em) / Miss Butler’s (G) (Gerry & Nuala)
*Jig/Reels: Will You Come Home With Me? (G) / The First House of Connaught (G) / Bean An Tí Ar Lár (D)
Session #25 - Thursday, June 11th, 2020
Leaders: Ewen Henderson and Ewan MacPherson
Special Guests: Alasdair White, Anna Colliton, John Mullen, Kate Gregory, and Joey Mullen
Theme: Oceans and Waterways
*Waltz/Reels: Skye Boat Song (G) / The Banshee (G) / Mountain Road (D)
2/4 Marches: The 91st at Modder River (Bm) / Glenfinnan Highland Gathering (A)
Jigs: Rolling Waves (D) / Dr. Flora MacAulay of Carradale (A)
Slip Jigs: The Duck (D) / Da Full Rigged Ship (Am) / Stan Chapman’s (A)
Songs: ‘S Truagh Nach Do Dh’Fhuirich Mi Tioram Air Tìr / Balaich An Iasgaich / A Pheigi A Ghràidh
Air/Polkas: Island of Woods (D) / The Gortnatubrid (Bm) / Tehan’s Favorite (A) (John Mullen and Kate Gregory)
Hornpipe: Galway Bay (Em) (Joey Mullen)
Slow Reel: I’m Not Fed Up With the Pacific Ocean (D)
Jig: Out on the Ocean (G) (Peter Rahill)
Strathspeys/Reels: Munlochy Bridge (G) / Back of the Change House (D) / Barrowburn Reel (D) / Little Donald in the Pigpen (A)
*Slip Jig/Jig: Foxhunter’s (D) / Roaring Barmaid (G)
…We’ll have more soon! Thanks again for being a part of the Mary O’s Virtual Sessions. -caitlin and chris