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I've dropped the separation of tunes that we play often and those that we don't, this is subjective and usually out of date, tunes go through fashions and it depends who is at the session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
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| 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 Oxfordabc 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
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?)
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