Cornucopia Dances and Tunes

A selection from the Cornucopia repertoire...

Justin's Tunebooks: The Shady Grove String Band Tune Books

Howard's Chordbooks: Dances, Celidhs, Extras

APPALACHIAN STEP CLOGGING

DANCE

MUSIC

Cherokee Shuffle

Buffalo Gals
Cherokee Shuffle
Cripple Creek
Salt River

Fowl Play

Chicken Reel
Cluck Old Hen
Turkey in the Straw

June Apple

Old Joe Clark
June Apple

Ladies Dance

Mississippi Sawyer
Catfish Creek
Little Liza Jane

Liberty

Liberty
Angeline the Baker
Over the Waterfall

   

BRITISH CLOG DANCES

DANCE

MUSIC

The Broom Dance

Navvy on the Line (The Clog Hornpipe)

First Lancs

Click go the Shears

Katie's Dance A cappella (lotsa feet)

King of the Fairies

King of the Fairies

Orange in Bloom

Orange in Bloom

Rosie's Dance

Jaybird (as intro)
Nancy
Bonaparte Crossing the Road

Three Hand Reel

Boys of Bluehill
Trumpet Hornpipe (Captain Pugwash)

Westmorland

Speed the Plough

Woody's Dance Staten Island / Soldier's Joy
   

CEILIDH TUNES - the ones in italics are ‘works in progress’

TYPE

MUSIC

Hornpipes

Boys of Bluehill / Trumpet Hornpipe
Click go the Shears / Harvest Home
Dominick Street
Speed the Plough
Staten Island / Soldier's Joy
Steamboat / Off to California

Proudlock’s Hornpipe / Dunstanburgh Castle
Roxborough Castle

Jigs

Hunt the Squirrel / Fram Upon Him
Jar of Slugs / Lark in the Morning
Oyster Girl / Kesh Jig
Tripping Up The Stairs / Calliope House

Lilting Banshee / Swallowtail Jig
Tenpenny Bit / Haste to the wedding

Jigs (48 bar)

Dingle Regatta / Banish Misfortune
Blarney Pilgrim

Old Time

Arkansas Traveller / Ebenezer / Ragtime Annie
Bill Cheatham / Fire On The Mountain / Fort Smith Breakdown
Buffalo Gals / Old Joe Clark
Nancy / Bonaparte Crossing the Road
Seneca Square Dance
Train a Comin’ / Reuben’s Train / Sally Goodin (The Train Set)
Coloured Aristocracy
Fence Panel © Reg Troubshort
Wood smoke through the birches © Reg Troubshort

Green Willis / Jaybird / Dusty Miller / Quince Dillon's high D tune / Whiskey Before Breakfast

Polkas

Brighton Camp / Maggie in the Wood

Reels

Brenda Stubbert’s Reel / Barrowburn Reel
Da Mirrie Boys o Greenland / Willafjord
The Flowers of Edinburgh / Blackberry Blossom
High Road To Luton / Devil’s Dream

Spootiskerry

Slip Jigs

Foxhunters Jig / Butterfly

Slow Air

Da Slockit Light

Farewell to Skegness

Songs

Glendale Train, Jessie James, Old Dan Tucker

Waltzes

Ashokan Farewell
Smoke on the Water
Planxty Fanny Power

Trip Over the Mountain

Lexicon

High road to Luton = High road to Linton

Bonaparte crossing the road = Bonaparte crossing the Rhine

Farewell to Skegness = Farewell to Stromness

Smoke on the water = Midnight on the water

Jar of Slugs = Jig of Slurs