Who, me?
I am either a nice, helpful contributor here, or the most vile thing that ever crawled through the bilous brown on your screen, depending entirely on your own point of view.
Because, really--well not really, but virtually at least, which is as real as it gets when you try to have craic with a scattering of pixels--this is just a screen persona, sound and flurry, a blip in cipherspace.
So why waste your time here when you could be playing tunes, swilling pints, and scoping out the cute puddle of DNA mouthing a flute down at your local?
(P.S. Having participated on this board since the beginning (using my real name), I now prefer to remain somewhat anonymous because there are too many maroons here who challenge you to reveal something about yourself just so they can use it against you and bury your inbox with whacked vulgar emails. Nothing personal against you, dear reader.)
FWIW, I've played Irish fiddle for nearly 30 years, dabbled with mandolin and tenor banjo, and am recently enjoying feeling tunes vibrate in my Hammy Hamilton flute. I help keep two weekly sessions running in my small town. Never enough time in a day.
Here are some lists of my best guessses at the "most widely played" sessions tunes, with help from other members:
Reels: http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/18036
Jigs: http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/18049
Hornpipes: http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/18069
Polkas:
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/18087
Slip jigs: http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/18120
I don't usually record myself, so clips of just me playing are rare. Here's me on fiddle (light brown pants, dark brown tee-shirt) at a house session in May 2008 playing A Night in Ennis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJljaWNhzgM
And here are a few quick and dirty clips recorded in one take each in my kitchen, June 17, 2008: http://www.soundlantern.com/UpdatedUser.do?UsName=willcpt&UsId=1131
I'll try to get more clips up in the future.
Tunes in Will CPT's tunebook: 295
| Dingle David | jig | June 24th 2008 |
| Gan Ainm | jig | May 17th 2008 |
| Stoney Brennan | reel | May 15th 2008 |
| Johnny Gorman's | reel | December 24th 2007 |
| Blacksmith Schottische | hornpipe | November 9th 2007 |
| Ceol An Clair | Various Artists | February 7th 2007 |
| The Old Fireside Music | Mike And Mary Rafferty | May 17th 2002 |
| The Road From Ballinakill | Mike And Mary Rafferty | May 16th 2002 |
| The Red Crow | Altan | July 3rd 2001 |
| Luscombe Violins | October 8th 2001 |
| Rotating Pubs | August 13th 2002 |
| An Average Session Player - Solo Fiddle Clips | June 17th 2008 |
| 41 (and counting) slip jigs widely played at Irish sessions | June 16th 2008 |
| 71 widely played polkas | June 13th 2008 |
| Some "essential" hornpipres for Irish sessions | June 12th 2008 |
| 150 or so "essential" Irish session jigs | June 11th 2008 |
| Tunes | July 25th 2008 | |
| Discussions | Re: Radius V Flat Fretboard | July 24th 2008 |
| Discussions | Re: A chair at the pub | July 24th 2008 |
| Discussions | Re: Any pointers for a hopeless banjo player? | July 23rd 2008 |
| Discussions | Re: Any pointers for a hopeless banjo player? | July 23rd 2008 |