For folks only starting out learning new Celtic tunes, this list gives you a starting point. These tunes are relatively easy – easy to learn, to play and to memorize. Some of these tunes also appear on the Common Tunes list and the big Baltimore list.

HORNPIPES

Harvest Home
Boys of Bluehill

JIGS

Saddle the Pony
Behind the Haystack (also called “Munster Buttermilk”)
Old Joe’s Jig
Out on the Ocean
Kesh
Cailleach an Airgid (aka, the Hag with the Money)

REELS

The Blacksmith’s
The Humours of Tulla
Rolling in the Rye Grass
Merry BlackSmith
Beauty Spot

BARNDANCE

Bill Malley’s Barndance

POLKAS

Britches Full of Stitches
Kerry Polka
Bill Sullivan’s