Banjo Hangout Top 100 Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Songs

TOTW 03/11/23: Waltz written by James Scott Skinner, also known as "The Rose Of Sharon Waltz" and "Rosebud Of Avonmore"...

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Trad reel in G played CH style....

TOTW for 2/5/2021. Played CH in G tuning on a Wildwood....

With a bit of guitar and mandolin too. A touch too slow perhaps....

TOTW 8/30/2019. A tuning. Clawhammer on a Wildwood Banjo....

Couple of traditional tunes here....

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The O'Reilly's of 17th century Ireland were amongst Turlough O'Carolan's supportive patrons as the blind harpist traveled far and wide. When O'Carolan wrote a tune in their honor it wa...

Clawhammer take on Trad march. Double D tuning. Wildwood....

CH take on Irish Reel composed by Michael Gorman. AB AB. Wildwood. D tuning...

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This traditional air honors the Irish soldiers who left Ireland to fight for France. The last time they left marked the 1691 Treaty of Limerick , a momentous time in Ireland's history which ended ...

There was really a harper in Ireland called Maire Dhall (Blind Mary) who is known to have taught harp to friends of Turlough O'Carolan (1670 - 1738), so it's assumed he knew her, too. The melod...

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This tune in 3/4 time is a rare find from Turlough O'Carolan (1670 - 1738). It's only found in one source dated in the early 1900's from Chief Francis O'Neill who had procured a rare note...

Here's a clawhammered planxty from Turlough O'Carolan (1670 - 1738) in 6/8 jig time with cello banjo accompaniment....

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Blackberry Blossom with some octave jumping...

CH take on a Trad jig. vega 2, G tuning....

Three Bluegrass tunes played in an Irish style. Tunes are Whiskey Before Breakfast/ Big Sciota/ Daley's...

recorded these before, but i re recorded them last night for my Soundcloud and Bandcamp page and thought the good folks at BHO would enjoy them....

A West Virginia tune from the Hammons family... which i (quickly) done learnt fer the Tune O' The Week! Played on a Vance tu-ba-phone, primarily in 2-finger style....

A tune inspired by a recent trip to the Emerald Isle. In Double C. Thanks too to the folks who didn't comment but hit the like button. :)...

This is a traditional tune from Scotland going back as far as 1549 in a published ballad format. Dave Hum played this tune and his videos are still on-line to view -- what an amazing picker he was! ...

After hearing Dave Hum play this I wondered if I could, too. It's taken some effort, but here's what I came up with, thanks to banjukebox's tab and some further exploration. Though simpler ...

I learned this version mostly from Hot Rize...

A planxty written to honor the head of an important Irish clan. The O'Connors were generous hosts of O'Carolan many a-time. A boyhood friend of O'Carolan's was also an O'Connor named ...

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This tune of O'Carolan's has a classical, ethereal sound. I dedicate it to Laurence Diehl, friend of O'Carolan's music and inspiring to all us little folk....

Neill Connor of Sedgely, UK recently posted a video "challenging" me to learn his favorite hornpipe which he's been working on, so here's my effort after 3 days. I simplified Ken Perlman&...

Learned from folklorist, song collector, and skillful melodic banjo clawhammer picker Andy Cahan. I heard of him through his collections in Virginia with Alice Gerard, especially of Roscoe Parrish. ...

CH take on Irish Slide. Double D tuning. Vega 2....

Three reels names as in title...

For the old-time Tune of the Week, 8/22/14. The lyrics are quite moving, telling of the real Jamie MacPherson of Scotland (1675 - 1700) who played a fiddle tune before being hung, who smashed his fid...

i think the first one is a Paddy Fahey tune and the second is the Coal Miner...

Today Dave's daughter, Perri, loaded an original tune Dave played while busking. We who looked forward to his videos here miss Dave and keep his music alive. I'm trying a clawhammer version of...

I guess I will always like this tune, even though it has had a lot of exposure....

Great Irish session tune....

Clawhammer take on trad 3 part dance tune. Supposed to be in D, but I'm in C. Wildwood....

Clawhammer take on a Reel from the Shetland Islands written by Ian Burns. G tuning but way low....

With guest appearance by Travis Wright...

Whiskey Before Breakfast TOTW 11/8/13. G tuning but tuned way low: d#A#D#GA#...

When I originally learned this I used clawhammer tuned to double D. Then I learned it in open G 3-finger picking style. Now I'm trying it again with clawhammer after more than 30 years. It's ...

The Hotpoint Stringband, with Hilarie on banjo...

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Two Celtic tunes to begin Spring break....

A nice brooding set of hornpipes I learned from the album 'If the Cap Fits' by the wonderful Irish fiddler Kevin Burke. The first is in G Minor, the second in A Minor. (Caislean an Oir is the I...

Trad Reel in A. CH....