MONDAY EVENING MESS SESSIONS

Folk, roots and acoustic music sessions around N. Wilts.

This month's sessions:
1st Monday - Royal George, Purton.
2nd Monday - Rose & Crown, Highworth.
3rd Monday - Running Horse, Swindon
4th Monday - The Beehive, Swindon
& if there's a 5th Monday - Rose & Crown, Highworth.

Correct at time of update - call Music Alive on 01793 770699 to confirm venue.

The Royal George has not gone dark - it's merely being refurbished (again)
Please note the rearranged venues.

Sessions are open to all, whether maestro or beginner.
We welcome visitors.

There are some tunes published on this site, they aren't prescriptive, feel free to play whatever you want.
Tunes may be on the same pdf sheet because they arrived at the same time & I like to save paper, not necessarily because we play them together.
I've dropped the separation of tunes that we play often and those that we don't, this is subjective and usually out of date, tunes go through fashions and it depends who is at the session on a particular evening. Bold Tunes are still more likely though.

If you need a CD containing all the resources on this site, see me on a Monday evening.

I do try to attribute tunes to composers but the way tunes are learnt means that we may miss yours, let me know.

DOWNLOAD ABC TUNEBOOK or just the more common TUNES
you'll need an abc reader such as abcExplorer

DOWNLOAD CHORDS FOR SOME SETS

PDFs are between 10 & 30kB, MIDI between 1 & 12kB
Download the full tune book - 215 tunes 1.8MB
Download the more common tunes - 125 tunes 1MB

After the Battle of Aughrim / McCanns PDF
Ashokan's Farewell PDF-MIDI
Attingham Waltz PDF-MIDI
Ballad of Ben / Miss Kennard PDF-MIDI
Banish Misfortune / Lisdoonvarna Jig PDF-MIDI
Beatrice Hill's Reel / Mad Moll PDF-MIDI
Bell Tower Polka / Les Cloches / L'Aigo de Rotzo & Rue de Pres PDF-MIDI
Biddy Martin's / Ger the Rigger / Billy Sullivan's PDF-MIDI
Blackberry Blossom PDF-MIDI
Blarney Pilgrim / Garrett Barry's PDF-MIDI
Bore Da Mrs. Morris/Y Lancers/Modryb Mair PDF-MIDI
Bourée Fai Bon Dancar / Bourée Droite / Les Poules Huppées PDF-MIDI
Boys of Bluehill / Off to California PDF-MIDI
Brighton Camp / Galopede / Tanner's March PDF-MIDI
Butterfly / Foxhunters Jig PDF-MIDI
Capuchin PDF-MIDI
Connaught Heifers / Andy McGann's PDF-MIDI
Cook in the Kitchen / Humours of Ennistymon PDF-MIDI
Cooleys Reel / Staten Island / Miss McLeods PDF-MIDI
Corriechoille's Farewell PDF-MIDI
Cumberland Reel PDF-MIDI
Da New Rigged (Full Rigged?) Ship PDF-MIDI
Da Tuskar / Willafjord / J Lang PDF-MIDI
Dark Girl Dressed in Blue / Girl With The Blue Dress On PDF-MIDI
Dartmoor Hornpipe (Untitled) PDF-MIDI
Dawn Chorus PDF-MIDI
Dear Irish Boy PDF
Dennis Murphy's / £42 Cheque / John Ryan's Polka PDF-MIDI
Donkey Riding / Buffalo Girls PDF-MIDI
Donnybrook Fair / Kesh Jig PDF
Down the Broom PDF
Dribbles of Brandy / Irish Washerwoman / Atholl Highlanders PDF-MIDI
Dubuque PDF-MIDI
East Boldon / Ann Fraser McKenzie PDF-MIDI
Enrico / Nine Men's Morris PDF-MIDI
Fairy Dance / De'il Among the Tailors / Drowsy Maggie PDF-MIDI
Father O'Flynn's / Haste To The Wedding PDF
Flitter Dance / Fanny Power PDF
Fools Jig PDF-MIDI
Going to the Well for Water PDF-MIDI
Harper's Frolic / Bonny Kate PDF-MIDI
Harvest Home / Worcester Hornpipe PDF-MIDI
Herbert the Sherbert / Plane Tree / Hop Break PDF-MIDI
Horizonto in Dm and in Em PDF-MIDI
Horse's Branle / Speed The Plough PDF-MIDI
Humours of Tulla PDF-MIDI
Jack Robinson / Argeers / Old Tom of Oxford PDF-MIDI
Jacky Tar / Sligo Maid PDF-MIDI
Jiggery Pokerwork / Horizonto in Em PDF-MIDI
Johnson's Hornpipe PDF-MIDI
Johnson's Polkas #1 & #2 PDF-MIDI
June Apple PDF-MIDI
Kalyana PDF
Kesh Jig / Trip to the Cottage PDF
King of the Fairies PDF-MIDI
Kitchen Girl / Nail the Catfish/ Cindy Cindy PDF
Kitchen Girl / Old Time Tune PDF-MIDI
Kitty Alone & I PDF-MIDI
La Russe / Wiltshire Tempest PDF
Lemmie Brazils #1 PDF-MIDI
Lemmie Brazils #2 PDF-MIDI
Lilting Banshee PDF-MIDI
Little Polly Polka / Marmalade Polka PDF-MIDI
Log Cabin PDF-MIDI
Maid Behind the Bar PDF-MIDI
Major John Bruce's Favourite PDF-MIDI
Margaret's Waltz PDF-MIDI
Merry Month of May PDF-MIDI
Mhairi's Wedding in G or D PDF-MIDI
Michael Turner's/Louis' Waltz PDF-MIDI
Monkey Hornpipe PDF-MIDI
Montreal Reel / Gaspé Reel / Le Canal en Octobre PDF-MIDI
Morning Dew PDF-MIDI
Old Joe Clark PDF-MIDI
Old Lancashire Reel / Shropshire Rounds PDF-MIDI
One Horned Sheep PDF
Peacock Follows the Hen / Another Jig Will Do PDF-MIDI
Pernod Waltz PDF-MIDI
Pigtown Fling / Bag of Spuds PDF-MIDI
Pretty Little Dog / Rub-a-Dub PDF-MIDI
Queen of the West / King of the Fairies PDF
Reluctant Fiddler PDF-MIDI
Rakes of Kildare PDF-MIDI
Rocky Road to Dublin / Sir Roger De Coverley PDF-MIDI
Rogues March / Captain Nemos PDF-MIDI
Rosza PDF-MIDI
Sailor's Hornpipe PDF-MIDI
Sandy River Belle / Seneca Square PDF-MIDI
Scan Testers #1 PDF-MIDI
Scan Testers #2 PDF-MIDI
Seven Stars / Bang Up / Morrisons Jig PDF-MIDI
Si Bheag Si Mhor (in D but sometimes in G) PDF-MIDI
Sir Sidney Smith's March PDF-MIDI
Sleep Soond i da Mornin PDF-MIDI
Sliabh Russell / Jim Ward's PDF-MIDI
Sligo Maid PDF-MIDI
Sonny Brogan's Mazurka / Les Poules Huppées PDF-MIDI
Spirit of the Dance / Jump at the Sun / Tripping Upstairs PDF-MIDI
Star or Munster / Golden Keyboard PDF
St Mary's School Tunes PDF
Swallowtail Jig / Willie Coleman's PDF
Swindon / Elsey's Waltz PDF
Tallis' Canon PDF-MIDI
Temperance Reel / St. Anne's Reel / June Apple PDF-MIDI
Three Around Three / Flowers of Edinburgh PDF-MIDI
Three Around Three / Speed the Plough / Slow the Plough PDF-MIDI
Trip to the Cottage PDF
Twin Sisters / Ladies Pleasure / Captain Nemo's PDF-MIDI
Uncle Bernards / Tralee Gaol PDF-MIDI
Untitled Bourée PDF-MIDI
Varsoviana PDF-MIDI
Walter Bulwers #2 / Walter Bulwers #1 / Fanny Frail PDF-MIDI
Waterloo Dance / Jenny Lind PDF-MIDI
Weasel In The Grass PDF-MIDI
Weavers March / the Quaker / The Sloe PDF-MIDI
Wedding Gift PDF-MIDI
Whelans / Colemans / Down the Broom PDF
White Cockade / Soldiers Joy / Rakes of Mallow PDF-MIDI
Wind That Shakes the Barley / Sally Gardens / Maid Behind the Bar PDF-MID
Wind That Shakes / Toss the Feathers PDF-MIDI
Wise Maid PDF-MIDI
   

Royal George Pavenhill, Purton. SN5 4BZ 1st Monday
The Rose & Crown The Green, Highworth, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN6 7DB 01793 766287 map 2nd & 5th Monday
The Running Horse Running Horse, Wootton Bassett Road, Swindon map 3rd Monday
The Beehive The Beehive, 55, Prospect Hill, Swindon, SN1 3JS map 4th Monday

Music Alive offers opportunities, activities and support to enable children and adults with disabilities to make and enjoy music.

Visit the MusicAlive Yahoo Group, you'll need a Yahoo ID or the facebook group

Email the site

Infernal Machine - recording studio who do Wild Wolf & more

The Bell Hotel, Old Town, Swindon

Hands On Music - Folkie weekends in Witney, which, despite the efforts of the Royal Mail, are still happening.

Celtic Chris' website (how to build a roundhouse, sail a coracle to London (why?) etc.)

Intro to abc notation How to abc tunes

JC's ABC music collection More abc files, tutorials & links

Oxford Folk Tutors Alice & friends doing folk in Oxford

abc navigatordownload page for this PC abc tune player/organiser/printer

The abc homepageeverything about ABC

The Session.Org Mainly Irish but excellent database of folk music

Aunt Adele Pretty good Canadian site full of links to trad music - including us! (thanks)

Mr Reds South West Folk Directory - v g

Icknield Way MM A list of sessions in the Oxford area, not as good as ours obviously!

Musical Traditions Rod Stradlings trad mag - good site

We like Sweet Plums even though Rachael has left

Devizes Folk Club

Swindon Folk Club

Tinkers Bag - Wiltshire songsters, turn up to sessions occasionally

Missin' Rosie - Rocking reels from Jason & his mates

 

Pictures can be viewed online at Picasa

Pictures of an early morning stint at the Festival of Literature (what were we doing there?)

Dawn Chorus 2010

You might recognise some heavily disguised features at the Jack-in-the-Green celebration at Highworth?

 

Music Alive
Bentham House
Bentham Lane
Purton Stoke
Purton
Swindon
SN5 4HZ

01793 770699

mess@music-alive.org


2/10/11
Royal George shuts

17/5/11
Tunebooks updated
Butterfly
Raithlin Island
Queen of the West
La Russe
Wiltshire Tempest

9/11/10
Dear Irish Boy
Foxhunters Jig
Star of Munster
Flitter Dance
Fanny Power
Golden Keyboard

8/6/10
Donnybrook Fair
Kesh Jig

13/5/10
Whelans
Coleman's Cross
Down the Broom

10/5/10
One Horned Sheep
Dawn Chorus Link

1/5/10
McCanns
Father O'Flynn / Haste to the Wedding
Kesh / Trip to the Cottage

2/3/10
The Beehive confirmed as venue
Swallowtail/Coleman's
Battle of Aughrim

26/2/10
Venues & dates

Sorry, Virgin locked me out of the website!

4/10/9
The Bells from Pete

27/8/9
Waltzes - Swindon/Elsey's

31/7/9
Butterfly added

12/7/9
Wind That Shakes set...

27/6/9
Details updated

18/6/9
Tunes for the St Mary's School Fayre
Shepherd's Hey, Not For Joe & The Ball

16/6/9
Diary update
RanTan Ceilidh was good!

13/5/9
Added PDFs & MIDIs
Scan Tester's 1&2
Lemmie Brazil's 1&2
Monkey/Dartmoor HPs
Fools Jig

10/5/9
Chords updated

9/5/9 Update of:
MESS Tunebook
Chord book
PDFs:
Three Around Three with Speed the Plough
Bourées
Jiggery Pokerwork with Horizonto
Jackie Tar / Sligo Maid
Harpers Frolic / Bonny Kate
MIDI files for above and:
Pernod Waltz
Little Polly
Johnson's Polkas
Humours of Tulla
Going to the Well for Water

5/5-7/5/9
Redesign of site