This collection includes many favorite Irish fiddle tunes. Some are easy to play, others more challenging. The bowing techniques, ornamentation and other aspects of playing style summarized in the introduction will be familiar to readers of Pete's earlier book, the Complete Irish Fiddle Player, as will source musicians like Julia Clifford, Tommy Peoples, Lucy Farr, John Doherty and Padraig O'Keeffe. Here though, instead of proceeding in 'fiddle method' style from simpler to more complex tunes, regional repertoire and styles are explored. Grouped in sets for performance, the tunes from any one tradition can be of varying levels of difficulty. Less experienced players may find sets 5, 6 and 29, for example, quite approachable, as well as the first reel in set 14 and the second single jig in set 15. All tunes included on companion online audio download.

Irish Fiddle Solos

Airs: Coming Home      
Airs: Coulin      
Airs: Fanny Power      
Airs: Lament For O'Donnell      
Airs: Lament for Owen Roe O'Neill      
Airs: Michael O'Connor      
Airs: Paddy's Rambles Through the Park      
Airs: Princess Royal      
Double Jigs: Trip to Sligo      
Double Jigs: Bank of Turf      
Double Jigs: Cliffs of Moher      
Double Jigs: Coach Road to Sligo      
Double Jigs: Coleman's Cross      
Double Jigs: Donnybrook Fair      
Double Jigs: Humours of Ennistymon      
Double Jigs: Kilfenora Jig      
Double Jigs: Tom Billy's Favourite      
Double Jigs: Wandering Minstrel      
Germans: Francie Mooney's      
Germans: Roise Bheag Roise Moire's      
Hornpipes: Galway Bay Hornpipe      
Hornpipes: Home Brew      
Hornpipes: Julia Clifford's      
Hornpipes: McGivney's Hornpipe      
Hornpipes: Plains of Boyle      
Hornpipes: Sean Healey's      
Polkas: Ballydesmond Polka Nr. 3      
Polkas: Ballyhoura Mountains      
Polkas: Gullane Polka      
Polkas: Knocknaboul Polka      
Polkas: Lucy Farr's Polka      
Polkas: Toormore Polka Nr. 1      
Polkas: Toormore Polka Nr. 2      
Reels: Andy Davy's      
Reels: Boys of Malin      
Reels: Christmas Eve      
Reels: Craig's Pipes      
Reels: Dinkey's Reel      
Reels: Farewell To Miltown      
Reels: Fergal O'Gara      
Reels: Fermoy Lasses      
Reels: Flogging Reel      
Reels: Glory Reel      
Reels: Gravel Walks      
Reels: Green Fields of Ros Beigh      
Reels: Martin Wynne's No. 1      
Reels: No. 2      
Reels: No. 3      
Reels: Oak Tree      
Reels: Over the Moor to Maggie      
Reels: Porthole of the Kelp      
Reels: Pullet & the Cock      
Reels: Sligo Maid      
Reels: Star of Munster      
Reels: Swinging on the Gate      
Single Jig or Slide: Dan O'Keeffe's Nr. 1      
Single Jig or Slide: Dan O'Keeffe's Nr. 2      
Single Jig or Slide: Lonesome Jig      
Single Jig or Slide: Music on the Wind      
Single Jig or Slide: Nell O'Sullivan's      
Single Jig or Slide: Scully Casey's      
Slip Jigs: Dusty Miller      
Slip Jigs: Fig for a Kiss      
Slip Jigs: O'Farrell's Welcome to Limerick