St. Jude
Sheet Music
27/3/2009, Liz Patton
Here's one of my favorite reels, in four parts.
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St. Patrick's Day
Culture
16/3/2009, Liz Patton
St. Patricks’ day has become synonymous withparades, pinching those who forgot to wear green, trying Irish foods, drunken revelry
and polluting perfectly fine brews with green food dye.
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Couragie
Sheet Music
24//2009, Liz Patton
Here's a very Renaissance piece I re-discovered after rummaging through my fingerstyle collection.
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Seven jam guidelines for the music of the Seven Nations
Music
26/1/2009, Liz Patton
Considering how many people start jamming again in the late winter and early spring I figured this would be a timely ettiquite reminder
for those around Celtic jams, especially since they are a little different than other jams.
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The Little Diamond
Sheet Music
12/1/2009, Liz Patton
Here's a jem of a traditional polka. I've arranged it for fingerstyle guitar
for solo enjoyment, but it probably won't work in a jam because polkas are generally
played fast enough to rival the speed of sound.
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Greensleeves
Sheet Music
7/12/2008, Liz Patton
Everyone has heard the modern "Greensleeves", also used for "What Child is This." Well here's an old "Greensleeves"
you can use to confound your friends and family over the holidays.
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Celtic Thanksgiving
Life
21/11/2008, Liz Patton
OK, for once we'll put away the music and focus more on other elements of the Celtic tradition. Now the American tradition of Thanksgiving, and even Christmas meals
has been around for 50 years. The turkey, mashed potatoes, and fixings are central to the meal... and get's really boring after a while. The Celtic nations have numerous
culinary ideas that don't get around very much, and I'd like to showcase a few here - just in time for holiday cooking.
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The History of Uilleann Pipes
Pipes
10/10/2008, Daniel Hendrix
Our resident piper delves into the history of this unusual instrument, from its invention in many countries to itc current renaissance.
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The Parting Glass
Fingerstyle Guitar
25/9/2008, Liz Patton
I thought I'd share with you one of my favorite traditional ballads - The Parting Glass.
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Learning Tunes
Opinion
19/9/2008, Liz Patton
Learning from sheet music or Learning by ear? There are pros and cons to each method and
I’ll give you my opinion on how to navigate the educational maze.
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The World of Uillean Pipes
Discovering Celtic Instruments
12/9/2008, Daniel Hendrix
If you are not familiar with traditional Irish music, you may be asking, "What are the uilleann pipes?" Let me put it this way: uilleann pipes
are the soul of Irish music and an important part of Irish culture.
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Spindleshanks
Arrangements
29/8/2008, Liz Patton
Here's an example of how a melody with a basic chord pattern can be embelished into a rollicking
example of how a rather plain tune can be something special if you experiment enough.
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Finding the Celtic Underground
5/8/2008, Liz Patton
If you’ve ever moved you know how difficult it can be finding a specialty store, or a hobby group. Whether you’ve
moved to a new area, or are new to Celtic music it can be so hard to find the Celtic scene that it seems like an
underground movement. For seekers in this realm I offer here my roadmap to finding other like-minded music lovers.
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Geese in the Bog - Picking Jigs
Mandolin family and Irish tenor banjo
5/8/2008, Joe Carr
Here is an example of the characertistic picking style used to approach Irish jigs.
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Canadian Waltz
Fingerstyle Guitar
30/7/2008, Liz Patton
Here is a fingerstyle guitar arrangement of a song out of the Gaulish tradition.
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