Tunes played in May – September, 2016

I’ve been bad about posting the list of tunes played at jams for the last few months; sorry about that! Rather than make a new post for each of them, I’m just going to do an omnibus update.

May 2016

May’s jam was held as a short workshop at the Northwest Folklife Festival, all in the key of D:

Soldier’s Joy
Spotted Pony
Arkansas Traveler
Eighth of January
Marching Through Georgia

June 2016

Cripple Creek (A)
Red Haired Boy (A)
June Apple (A)
Boil ’em Cabbage Down (A)
Ashokan Farewell (D)
Spotted Pony (D)
Over The Waterfall (D)
Angelina Baker (D)
Midnight on the Water (D)
Mississippi Sawyer (D)
The Boys of Bluehill (D)
Soldier’s Joy (D)
St. Anne’s Reel (D)
Turkey in the Straw (D)
Westphalia Waltz (D)

July 2016

I think it was mostly guitar players and me for a while, so there was more singing this month than usual. I should probably try to have more singable songs in the repertoire, because that’s fun too.

Red River Valley (G)
Crawdad Song (G)
She’ll Be Coming ‘Round The Mountain (A)
Polly Wolly Doodle (G)
Golden Slippers (D)
Wildwood Flower (C)
Banks of the Ohio (G)
Arkansas Traveler (D)
Soldier’s Joy (D)
Just a Closer Walk With Thee (A)
Church in the Wildwood (C)
Angelina Baker (D)
West Fork Girls (D)
Green Willis (D)
Ida Red (G)

August 2016

Listening to the recording from this month, I didn’t do a very good job of keeping the pace down. Sorry about that; I’ve been thinking of bringing a metronome to keep myself honest.

Barlow Knife (G)
Girl I Left Behind Me (G)
Ida Red (G)
Red Wing (G)
Rat’s Gone to Rest (G)
Cripple Creek (A)
Boil ’em Cabbage Down (A)
Boatman (A)
Old Joe Clark (A)
Sandy Boys (A)
Soldier’s Joy (D)
St. Anne’s Reel (D)
Angelina Baker (D)
Spotted Pony (D)

September 2016

Angelina Baker (D)
Soldier’s Joy (D)
Mississippi Sawyer (D)
St. Anne’s Reel (D)
Over the Waterfall (D)
Spotted Pony (D)
Coleman’s March (D)
Old Joe Clark (A)
Cluck Old Hen (A)
Cripple Creek (A)
Sandy Boys (A)
Red Haired Boy (A)
The Blackest Crow (A)

Ok, caught up!